AvocationVocation: "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!