Three weeks into the new block and feeling okay! Still not 100% on cows but I'm getting the hang of dog/cat/horse GI. Thanksgiving is only four weeks away and I absolutely can't wait to go home and also to not be the one cooking all the time!
Vet Games is this week, and I actually found some school spirit and participated in the three-legged race. We came second in our heat, which isn't too shabby! Students get points for wearing something relating to the theme of the day so on Monday I wore my 2017 wolf shirt that a classmate made for me and then Tuesday I slacked off because I didn't have tie-day. Yesterday I wore a shirt from undergrad, and today I'm wearing the official vet games shirt! The class of 2016 is a couple hundred points ahead of us, so we have to catch up!
I had to buy some surgical instruments for school: needle holders and forceps. There's a company here, HMC surgical, that has a student rep and says that we get 45% off of their instruments but they still seemed... pricey. I bought stainless steel Olsen-Hegars and Adson-Brown forceps, and it came to $40. A lot of people bought the tungsten carbide in several instruments, as well as buying suture scissors, bandage scissors, and other forceps but I wanted to do more research before I put down more money. I looked on Amazon today and there's a seller called Vet Med USA with pretty good reviews and they were selling TC Olsen-Hegars for $28... HMC sold them for $88. So, I ordered the ones online and I'll probably compare them to my roommate's that she bought from HMC. I plan on being a small animal surgeon so most places will supply instruments and I don't need to worry about having my own. Although, the nice thing about HMC is that they have a lifetime warranty!
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Saturday, October 19, 2013
On to block 2
I survived midterms! Not only did I survive, but I managed to get an A in VBS (our big main course that comprises the 12 -ologies) and a B on our practical! I'm still waiting on my vet issues, ACT, and clinical skills grade, but apparently that might take awhile.
Our first case of the new block has to do with cows, and I think this is the first time I've felt overwhelmed while I've been here. I can handle all the basic science about cows: their GI, their behaviour, their nutrition, their pathology... what I'm having a difficult time understanding is all the different rations for different stages of productions and the different feedlot operations. I'm having a hard time even finding concrete information on that. I've currently turned to Wikipedia. It seems like every textbook or journal article assumes that everyone knows this information already, so they just skip over it.
I went to Toyota today because I ordered the mirror replacement (someone stole the back of my mirror while I was on campus!) and it turns out they ordered the wrong part... this was after they tried to double charge me, of course. Not super happy with Claremont Toyota at the moment.
Piper is doing great! Still working on potty training. We seem to have a couple really good days with no accidents and then a really bad one. But at least the good is outweighing the bad! She's learned to sit, lie down, and stay although "stay" is a little shaky. She kind of knows "come," but it really depends on what she wants to do at the moment... We're working on fetch and drop it, which she gets about 50% of the time! I'm pretty proud of her for how young she is. She's still pretty shy but we went to PetSmart last night and she actually walked up to a couple employees and let them give her treats, so I see that as a huge milestone.
Taylor came to visit after midterms, which was fantastic. We went to the mall on Friday after my exam because I needed to buy new jeans (props to Old Navy for fitting petite girls!) and then I cooked dinner for us. We hung out and watched movies all day Saturday which was perfect because I honestly didn't want to do anything else. After all the stress of exams and not being able to do anything else, that's all I wanted to do. He left early Sunday which was a bummer because I would have wanted to spend the whole day with him... But at least Piper and I go home at the end of next month, and we're super excited for that!
Our first case of the new block has to do with cows, and I think this is the first time I've felt overwhelmed while I've been here. I can handle all the basic science about cows: their GI, their behaviour, their nutrition, their pathology... what I'm having a difficult time understanding is all the different rations for different stages of productions and the different feedlot operations. I'm having a hard time even finding concrete information on that. I've currently turned to Wikipedia. It seems like every textbook or journal article assumes that everyone knows this information already, so they just skip over it.
I went to Toyota today because I ordered the mirror replacement (someone stole the back of my mirror while I was on campus!) and it turns out they ordered the wrong part... this was after they tried to double charge me, of course. Not super happy with Claremont Toyota at the moment.
Piper is doing great! Still working on potty training. We seem to have a couple really good days with no accidents and then a really bad one. But at least the good is outweighing the bad! She's learned to sit, lie down, and stay although "stay" is a little shaky. She kind of knows "come," but it really depends on what she wants to do at the moment... We're working on fetch and drop it, which she gets about 50% of the time! I'm pretty proud of her for how young she is. She's still pretty shy but we went to PetSmart last night and she actually walked up to a couple employees and let them give her treats, so I see that as a huge milestone.
Taylor came to visit after midterms, which was fantastic. We went to the mall on Friday after my exam because I needed to buy new jeans (props to Old Navy for fitting petite girls!) and then I cooked dinner for us. We hung out and watched movies all day Saturday which was perfect because I honestly didn't want to do anything else. After all the stress of exams and not being able to do anything else, that's all I wanted to do. He left early Sunday which was a bummer because I would have wanted to spend the whole day with him... But at least Piper and I go home at the end of next month, and we're super excited for that!
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