#vetblog

[aphiepilled]

OKAY SO. nothing very interesting happened today lol!!!! wanted 2 take more pics but i was rlly busy today n stuff!!! but here are some kittens from vet sciences

i'll try 2 remember to take more pics of my work n animals n stuff tomorrow!!!!

i'm gonna start blogging my vet school work on here starting TODAY!!!! GET READY!!!! GET EXCITED!!!!

[starryvibed]

Obsessed with @vet-and-wild blg but the cat who decided my laptop keypad is his throne for the day obviously remains unbothered

[adhdvetstudent]

I passed!!!!

We got our CVS OSCEs results and I somehow passed. I'm actually quite surprised, I'd for sure thought I'd failed.

Honestly, I'd say I probably passed because although I was shiting a brick on the inside, I kept a nice calm, happy facade on the outside. You're not even supposed to talk to them, but I was joking about how I can put catheters in in real life, but of course not when it comes to an exam, and they were actually nice back (so that probably got me points). They did mention on the general feedback how not only do they mark you on a checklist, but they also look at whether you could do it in practice and stuff like that.

[bored-vet-student]

Reviewing equine forelimb bones, bones are so cool!

[nickithevet]

Found myself doing professional equine dentistry today and to be fair it was super interesting!

[dogtorj]

My blog starts with a good day!

I don’t think it’s a surprise to people that the veterinary profession is full of ups and downs. We start (luckily!) with an up kind of day. At least I left work with a smile.

My morning begins as an easier one. I am on a shift that means I am effectively an extra hand. My responsibility is prescriptions, and I can be taken away from this to put a cannula in, take some blood for a blood test, or be a “bum-stop” (to sit behind/scratch a patients bum while other things happen to them, as a distraction and minor restraint). The dogs I need to do this with are easily distracted with a high-pitched tone of voice and a bum scratch; and the morning goes without a hitch. I call a couple of clients to confirm their prescription requests / let them know they will need a prescription review soon as we haven’t seen their pets in a while; and then at 10:30am, it’s time to start consults.

Most of my consults this morning are for vaccinations. Routine, not presenting for a problem, more an opportunity for pets to have a positive interaction with us rather than be scared; and to catch up with the owners too (so important to so many of us in the current pandemic!). One of these patients happens to be a patient I operated on 10 months ago, for being kicked in the head by a horse, leaving a 1-inch-diameter hole in her skull. It’s awesome to see her doing so well, I have to admit I didn’t even recognise her at this stage, as a full-grown adult with all the fur having grown back on her head. I also see a very charming and well-behaved bulldog, called Angus, whose complicated eye ulcer has healed just a week after me debriding it with a diamond burr. I was able to do this without sedation as he sits so still. He gets 3 treats, and I feel pretty chuffed with myself.

Afternoon consults. More booster vaccinations. We are behind with COVID-19 lockdown having halted us a fair bit, and people having been pushed back a few months, so we have some catching up to do. A couple of them are nervous and require muzzling, but we manage to keep them calm in the consult room, and I don’t hear so much as a growl. I must be giving off calm vibes today!

In my afternoon consults, I come across a cat with constipation. He has been trying his hardest to go to the toilet today but to no avail. He is elderly and is already on laxatives to help this problem. I’m concerned that he now has a brain tumour. His owner reports following questioning, that he does tend to walk round in circles, and to me he doesn’t seem as ‘awake’ as his normal self would. He’s a little wobbly on all 4 legs, but gets around ok. I speak to the owner about my concerns. This is a difficult thing to prove. This would require an MRI but he is 18 years old and on discussion we’re not wanting to send him away to a specialist for an anaesthetic to do this. We choose to help with his constipation. I keep him in one of our ‘cat pods’ for the afternoon and give him a suppository to help the muscle contractions required to pass the firm poop I can feel in his abdomen. He requires a little ‘manual’ assistance - but he appears visibly brighter and happier afterwards. He goes home, owner aware of my worry with him longer-term.

Between consulting blocks, I get handed some flowers, a box of chocolates, and a card. In the card are some heartfelt words from a client I have seen for the last 2 years, as long as I’ve been in this particular job. She thanks me for looking after their dear old mini dachsund. I had diagnosed him with congestive heart failure way back when he was already in his teenage years’ and we had managed it since. Every recheck he’d happily plodded his way in to the consult room to see me, and every recheck we’d check in with each other and talk about making the end of his life as good and comfortable as possible. And he just kept going, kept being happy. He had been put to sleep by one of my colleagues while I was away, and yet the owner had felt the need to thank me personally for all we’d done in the last almost two years. A flash of regret waves over me that I hadn’t been there to say goodbye, but I also know that the time would have been right. It doesn’t happen to me often, but I do hold back some tears as I prepare for evening consults.

Evening consults. These are fairly routine. A limping dog I think will get better with some rest. An ear infection that is likely due to an underlying allergy (we discuss how to get this under control and also how to keep it that way). I see one of my surgeries back from 2 weeks ago. This was a removal of a very large lump. The removal left a very big hole (skin really stretches and pulls apart when you cut it). I used suturing techniques that would take some of the tension off the wound, and it so happens that its worked brilliantly. I’m chuffed. This particular dogs’ nipples now sit more on his side than on his underside, but I don’t think it bothers him too much! He’s super happy to see me, and he no longer needs to wear the toddler hoodie he’s had to wear for the last 2 weeks to protect the stitches that I remove.

All in all, I’ve left the day feeling brilliant. I have a bunch of tulips in my hand, and I know I’ve done good. Not every day is like this, not at all. But it’s days like this that make me realise I’m truly in the profession I’m meant to be in and that I’m fairly good at it!

[allvet]

Animals have a very different way of showing pain. Some hide in corners while others get aggressive if approached or touched.

Cats are a lot more resilient to pain and don't show any signs till the pain reaches unbearable levels.

It is very important to know what to expect and what signs to look out for to be able to help them on time and to keep them from suffering.

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[funkysquirrels]

Just because I can withstand euthanasias all day at work doesn’t mean I won’t cry when it’s one of my own!!!!

[vetschoolvacay]

Walking out of my favorite patient’s exam room like...

[aphiepilled]

HELLOO TUMBLR!!!!!

welcome back to another vetblog!!!!

so!! today, me and the other juniors helped the class seniors study for a HUGE test!!

i won't get into the boring details, but we basically just played a game all class! the seniors had to throw a ball into a trashcan (or bucket lol) and whenever one team made it, the losing team had to answer a question!! the questions were just vet field related stuff, anatomy n diseases n all that, but it was pretty fun!

here's a wall of some of our word drawings to help us remember our words :3 my group drew the nephrectomy one !!

this is a pic of how the game was set up!! there were more bins on the other side of the room but i didn't wanna take a pic cause it'd be the exact same thing lol

to end this, here are some kitten pics + lil baby rainbow trout!!

[starryvibed]

Little Parvo Pups creating havoc during treatments as they get better each day 🐾

25.11.21 - Finals week is done!

We have a one week break before practical exams start. These might be the last exams I'll be giving for a while now since college rotations start in December. Can't wait! 🙆

Also, my love for green plants never ends. 😌

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[adhdvetstudent]

School didn't teach me shit and intelligence is overated

So, the other day I met up with some old friends that I haven't spoken to in about 5 years. Neither are as "smart" as me. One, I went to primary school with and then he went to a really bad secondary school because he didn't do well. The other I met in secondary school. He then dropped out after AS-levels because he flunked them. But...

I haven't met two people who are as good at logical and rational thinking. Whilst they aren't as smart as me, they are just as capable, and more capable than most, at having a debate. Frankly, they could put a verbal beat down on most of the people I go to uni with, and one is in a foundation degree and the other just went back and got his GCSEs.

So, we had a talk about this and I concluded that it wasn't school that had taught us any of this, it was life. All 3 of us have had unpleasant experiences in life, and we were all social outcasts. I believe that that was what taught us how to talk and how to think. It certainly was for me and I've talked about this in a previous post. They also seemed to agree.

To conclude my point, what I am saying is that intelligence isn't the same as wisdom. Being able to understand intellectual concepts easily, isn't the same as being logically minded.

[bored-vet-student]

Comparative anatomy of the bones of the feet of dogs, cows and horses.

I love looking at the bones of different species that move in very different ways. They have the same bones but they are shaped so differently.

The bone in the base of the hoof would be our fingertip bone (our distal phalanx, pl. phalange).

This picture probably doesnt make it super clear the difference in size, but the dog picture would really just be a dog paw, while the horse one is the bottom half of its leg!

[nickithevet]

[the-vet-life]

Mid-diaphyseal fractures on metacarpal II, III, and IV in a 3 month old Pomeranian. Any guesses as to how this happened?

[thenorthernvet-blog]

Winchester making me feel better for my first ever solo On-Call™ last night. 

I slept like crap, checked the phone every approximately 45 minutes and didn’t have any calls. 

So, I survived my first night (?). Onto a day at the clinic.