DONE!!

Dear god, I hope that's the last exam I ever have to take. 6 hours of multiple choice questions is TOO MANY. I think it went okay, though- I felt like I knew more than half of the answers, so it could have been worse. Of course, I don't get the result until February, so I'm just going to forget about it until then.

Ugh, my veterinary licensing exam is next week, and I am utterly unable to find motivation to study for it. It covers pretty much everything about every species, which is pretty daunting, but it's almost so overwhelming that I don't feel like spending one more week studying will help with anything. I think if I don't know this by now, I never will ( Read more... )

I have pathology labs this rotation and we do a bunch of necropsies (animal autopsies).

( Cut for vague but gruesome details )

One of the coolest things I got to see on my last medicine rotation was a bronchoscopy on a dog- basically a tiny camera on a cord fed down through the trachea and in to the bronchi while we watched the images on a screen. It was on a dog with a chronic cough and we wanted to look inside his lungs and take some biopsies. It was really neat to see ( Read more... )

One of my patients from a couple of weeks ago died this morning :(. I was far more invested in him than most of my patients- he was in the intensive care unit of the clinic for nearly two weeks, and his owners visited every day; I've stayed in touch with them since he went home. His prognosis was always guarded ("guarded" generally means "we don't ( Read more... )

So about a month ago, I got a dog :D. I also got a car, and I kind of feel like these two events have officially made me an adult (which is probably a weird place to draw that distinction, but there it is). Getting my own dog (we've always had a "family" dog, but this one is mine), is honestly something I've been looking forward to since I was a ( Read more... )

I have a super crappy case in the clinic right now that has pretty much swallowed my whole week/ weekend :(. It's a really lovely cat with pancreatitis who just doesn't seem to improve no matter what we try. Treatment options for pancreatitis are pretty much limited to pain/ nausea control and the outcome is pretty variable. Some cats do okay, ( Read more... )

I am pretty bad at updating this, it turns out. I guess my last rotation was pretty uneventful anyway (it was radiology- I find x-rays brutally difficult to interpret, but there's not much I can write about them that would be interesting ( Read more... )

So I ended up having a really awesome time on my large animal rotation :). I'm definitely still a small animal person, and I have no interest in practicing horse or cow medicine, but I have to be honest, the small animal hospital at school kind of drives me nuts. It's always a bit of a madhouse, with people and dogs and noise everywhere, and the ( Read more... )

I just saw some pictures posted on Facebook of my past junior surgery patient (the medical disaster who had a tumor removed, then subsequently developed a drug-resistant infection and had her whole leg amputated after spending about a month in hospital). It looks like she's doing really well in her new home, so that's pretty exciting news! That ( Read more... )