Day 72 (03/13)

so i shadowed in inpatient again, it was a little bit more interesting. one 8 month old kitty had possible toxoplasmosis, the owners adopted her from petsmart about a month ago and when they took her home she just wasn't as active as she should be at her age. she's been getting worse so the owners took her in and her ears have been seizing and she's had some nystagmus but other than that we've just been having to flip her q4h and we gave an injection of mannitol but it hasn't really gotten better.

then there was a foreign body dog who actually ended up passing a rock in his stool, but we kept taking radiographs every now and then and there were still what looked like pebbles in his GI tract, but they're not very dense so i don't think they're pebbles. we'll see what happens.

then a jack russell came in during the shift who just had consistent vomiting and had vomited 3 times since it showed up at the clinic. the owners don't think he could've gotten into anything and they didn't wanna test so it's being hospitalized and monitored for any signs of diarrhea or vomiting, which he didn't do any of at least until i left.

then one of the staff members' dogs is on chemo, so i was taking his TPR every 15 minutes.

also i helped set up and observed 2 dentals and i finally placed a catheter on a dog after...monday during the dental lab but before that it's been months

i found a tick on the floor!!!! and then i helped with the outpatient list while staff 4 was in a meeting, so i had the last hour to spare to do whatever and clean whatever. i also played with one of the doctor's bottle baby puppies awww.

after clinicals i had to go back to the horse lab. i was actually in a good mood besides the fact that i was hungry so it wasn't that bad but it's just boring as hell to listen and learn about a field i'm not even interested in going into. like i'm not gonna touch horses at all after this program. we just talked about dentals and sheath cleaning. i didn't help at all with the dental, but i did a sheath cleaning. i also taught some of my classmates how to make a slip knot and i cleaned cinnamon's hooves. uuuugh idk man here's some pics

me and cinnamon

me cleaning cinnamon's hoof

after the lab i went to petsmart to stock up on some pet food, and then to panera where i got myself a sandwich and then i went home to eat the sandwich and now i'm cleaning up and writing this and yadayadaya i'm gonna go pick alex up from work soon

xoxo

jello