"Goodbye to all the friends I've known, goodbye to the people I've trusted. Ive got to go on and make my own way...

...I might get rich you know, or I might get busted". -Steve Miller Band

SO…I graduated. Yeah. It was bittersweet. It was a beautiful day I shared with my family (at Chateau Morrisette, which is amazing-check it out: http://www.thedogs.com/), but I’m really really going to miss the wonderful people I spent the last four years with. This past year especially has brought me close to some people I thought I didn’t have anything in common with. Fourth year of vet school=blood, sweat and tears. And I’m not talking about the band.

In our “regalia”. As a really cool side note I have a vivid recollection of a picture of my grandfather in his regalia which also included a floppy hat.

At Chateau Morrisette wine tasting (aka getting drunk) with the Class of 2009

Adam and I are in Florida now! One of our best friends Chris helped us move in and now we’re unpacking and trying to enjoy my last weekish of freedom. I think we’re going to St. Augustine wed and then kayaking with some manatees (that’s right, I’m going again) this weekend.
So where is Krista exactly? I’m in Ocala, Florida. Marion County actually has the highest density of horses in America. Tons of thoroughbred racehorses as well as some very nice show horses that come down in the winter.

And here's where I'll be working:

Yikes! Wish me luck! the one week countdown begins...

Can I GRADUATE? Can I look at faces that I meet,can I get my punk ass off the street?

What a fantastic last few weeks. I finished up my block with Tom, which was awesome. I got to do so much cool stuff with him, and learned a lot. I was really sad to leave he and Jennifer (his wife). But time to move on, I guess.





So after Tom's I met Adam in MD and we drove up to Frostburg for Big Bubba Day/Donniepalooza. For those of you who don't know, I'm sorry, but you never will.



It was pretty great. I love my Frostburg boys. And though in the 50s at night, it didn't snow. Which for Frostbueg is unusual considering it snowed the first week of May in 2005 just before I graduated.



Speaking of graduating, I graduate today! My parents are coming today-which means clean clean clean till they get here. I (surprisingly) do not have much of a hangover, and am just waiting for Carmen to wake up since she crashed on the couch :)

PS-pictures to follow.

"The best thing you've ever done for me, is to help me take my life less seriously. It's only life after all."

So I've been busy!

I finished up my radiology block, which was actually useful and educational as we talked about a lot of horsie stuff. And I had fun in spite of really disliking a super huge kiss ass in my group.

Can you spot the brown noser?

I also had a fantastic Easter. Adam was in Kentucky and I didn't really have any plans. I got called in to take a few rads of some dogs and cats, and stopped by the large animal hospital on the way out. That's when I met this little cutie:

His mama died after giving birth. She actually died in a really horrible way. The foal tore her rectum on the way out and she prolapsed a lot of her small colon out of her rear end. Then the kind of retarded referring vet sent her in (which included a one hour trailer ride) with her intestines hanging out her arse. This is especially retarded cause he didn't bother to do a TPR before he sent her, so didn;t realize she was losing massive amounts of blood and was in shock. She reached the hospital just in time to be euthanized before she died of blood loss.

But back to the happy part. A nurse mare was found for the foal! One of my favorite clinicians asked me to help teach the baby to nurse since all the techs were really busy with other patients. He was a pretty quick study considering he was 3 days old and hadn't nursed a real mare ever. So yay! What a great Easter!

So where am I now? I'm currently here: http://www.littlehawkfarm.com/ This is a primarily repro practice. So that means lots of palpating mares, and lots of cute little foals! Tom has also let me do a ton on my own-like laceration repairs and foal medicine and all kinds of stuff. What an amazing block to have before an internship. Pictures of this block will follow!

Another milestone in my life: turning in the on call pager. And yes, it says "your mom"

So...one more week, then I'm done!