Just FYI-This post cost me $2.95 because WiFi at McDonald's ain't free! That's not even counting the food I ate first!
I had a great time on food animal medicine. I don’t feel like I really did all that much though. I sort of just followed production medicine around and went home early when I didn’t feel like doing anything else.
I did learn a lot. I did learn how to manage myself as a woman in the field from Dr.Marshall. I did pee in a field, well barn. Well, at least it was outdoors! And I can hit a jugular vein nearly every time I try. I also really like to do the laundry at the clinic. There was something soothing about the organization of it. And I really like organization.
Other than working the 300 heifers at the grazing dairy for the New Zealanders, I think the trip into Amish country was the most fun. (Not that the trips out to Foremost weren’t fun. I swear I wasn’t the one that cut the vessel when lancing the abscess!)
First of all, everyone was super nice except for the horses that were snobs. We drove into one place and the horses were just out in the barnyard. They approached the truck and I was excited to get to pet them. Dr. Marshall warned me not to get kicked and I promised that I wouldn’t . I attempted to pet them and they just walked off away from me. There were however a team of Belgians that were hitched and tied so they couldn’t run off. We petted them instead.
I saw a Holstein bull. They’re big and sort of scary! And a dead lamb at the same place which was slightly more sad than the dead kitten at the place where we dehorned calves and I caught that one on fire. Everyplace had Australian cattle dogs and I had to pet them. There were shy and cute Amish kids. The cows weren’t as friendly or as calm as I imagined them to be. I would have thought getting milked every day by hand would make a cow super calm, but you’d be wrong. I drained two abscesses from a cow’s jaw and we saw part of a pelvis get sawed off. We didn’t know that you could do that and apparently my comments on my clinical competencies worried my professor. It was cool, again we just didn’t know you could do that!
[EDIT-Originally, posted to Blogger on March 12, 2011.]
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