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| Exam room!!! |
Lucky for us, these exams only count for 10-15% of our grades. This lets us ease into the UK testing style. One of our exams was cancelled and rescheduled for January. This was because of "Hurricane Bawbag." We experienced 100mph winds that shut down the city -- no trains or busses. Roofs of building were blown off and school busses were blown over.
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| T-shirts already!! |
Last Friday we celebrated the end of classes by going to Lock 27 for a celebratory pint and then to the Walkabout Bar for the Vet School Christmas party. It was a great way to blow off some exam stress. We finally got home at about 3am and I left for the airport at 4am. I had layovers in Amsterdam and Philadelphia and finally made it to Phoenix about 17 hours later. We went straight to a friends birthday party and had a blast.
I spent the past four days at Twin Peaks Veterinary Center and thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was so nice to be back in a clinic, especially with people I know. I learned how to extract teeth using an elevator and got to practice scaling and polishing teeth. I also got to scrub in on several surgeries including a spay, and two abdominal exploratories. One of which was a suspected abdominal mass that end up being lymphoma. We ended up euthanising the cat on the table (for the best) but I was able to perform the necropsy and identified enlarged lymph nodes, several intestinal masses at the level of the jejunum, and cystic kidneys. I was then able to practice my simple interrupted sutures to close the abdomen. The second abdominal exploratory involved a dog that had eaten a leash! Three enterotomies (opening of the intestines), a gastronomy (opening up the stomach) and an intussusception (telescoping of the intestines) later, all the foreign bodies were removed.
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| Enterotomy |
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Intussusception |
I was also able to go into an exam room with the doctor and learn about the diagnostic plans. It was very cool to be introduced as the vet student :)
