Just finished writing the pharmacology exam for tomorrow. I don't know what happened to my brain last night but I worked on the anesthesiology exam instead of this one. Anesthesiology isn't until next Monday. I get confused sometimes. We just covered NSAIDS in both classes, which I planned that way so that they could study for both classes at the same time for these exams, but I get confused about which class is which. So it is finished, and my thumbnail is gone. I seriously have no idea that I'm doing that when I'm focused.
Today I castrated a red angus bull calf. He was pretty cute, about 350 lbs. I felt so bad for him. I just use locals, and I use them liberally so he doesn't feel a heck of a lot after the inital poking, but then every time I go to the front of the chute to help adjust something or grab something, he just LOOKS at me with those innocent accusatory eyes. I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep. After that was my first Great Pyranese spay surgery and I learned all sorts of things about big dogs and their big vessels. One of the uterine vessels ripped after I had sutured everything, so I pulled out all the stops and had the dog catheterized and on fluids while I sought and found my stump to ligate it some more. Then the broad ligaments kept seeping and I was so nervous about all of the ligatures at that point that I extended the incision both ways to hunt down all of the stumps again and had my boss step in to make sure things were chill in there before closing her up. She has some serious skillzzzzz in finding the right pedicle stump. But alas it was just the broad ligament seeping and we ligated it and the dog is doing fine. I know, I know, everybody deals with this all the TIME and it's no big deal, but I'm still a bit high strung... starting to relax (just ask my old pig lab partner how far I had to come from). I love these dogs, it freaks me out sometimes that I have so much power over them. There was some great Great Pyranese hugging going on in the back at the end of the day. And some grooming. They're soooo FLUFFY and CUTE (muppet voice).
Wow I just love Pandora. Whiskey Lullabye followed by Ice Ice Baby. Keeps things interesting.
I'm going to CO tomorrow! I havn't packed a thing and I believe I'm just going to take some dirty laundry back with me and borrow a machine. Lol. Some kids never grow up. I'm hoping I can take some more pups there with me. I got the last of the 6 box puppies adopted out today, however I came home and visited my neighbor since my nutjob pitt-mix dog jumped on her puppy this morning and I wanted to check on him... and she has 3 eight-week-old pups she needs to get rid of. So ya'll, 3 more pups. Cute as buttons, they look exactly like the box puppies, just more white markings.
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