MySpace-March 12, 2009-EFAST-March 8th, 2009

I only have Monday and Tuesday left on my EFAST time before I go back to school and pathology. I am ready too. Apparently, three weeks is about as long as I can go before I really start missing Joe. Joe on the other hand missed me somewhere around week one to one and a half. Cornell and its eight weeks is going to pose a problem I think.

I went and saw Erick today. We hung out a lot longer than I intended but it was very fun. I guess I didn’t really know what I wanted from it but I got pretty close.

Last week, was a fairly busy week. I performed an LDA surgery pretty much by myself. The only parts that I didn’t do was sort of confirm that I had done some things right. It took me forever of course but I’m not going to get any better if I don’t do it.

We had a cow come in with a twisted uterus. It required a lot of work to get the calf out once we untwisted the whole thing. I worked really hard on that too.

We radiographed a horse’s head and then I curetted out some of the rotten bone from it. I took a radiograph of my hand. I have a perfect little hand but it is very short and fat. Even though that was the same day as doing the LDA surgery, working on the cow with the twisted uterus AND getting a free lunch  from a drug company rep, radiographing my hand was probably the coolest part.

I pretty much replaced a prolapsed uterus by myself. That was cool. I neutered the family dog and neutered half a cat. It still freaks me out to do surgery. I helped pull a calf as I often do but this calf was backwards and dead (as they often are) however, I did manage to get pooped on pretty seriously by it.

I was offered my choice between three kittens (again). And at various points that day was holding a calf and then later a goat.

I really should take some pictures of the places we go and the things I see but I’m not very good about taking pictures. I’ve carried my camera with me for over a week and think about it after the fact.

I just know that some days, I take things way to easily. I know that in these last two days, I should go out of my way to be enthusiastic and helpful! And proactive about doing things, even if they need to be repeated. I also need to pack my stuff tomorrow night and if it is possible watch their Smoker video. I’m sure that its close to being as good as ours since Smoker hasn’t changed since at least the early ‘90s (lots of drinking and debauchery).

[EDIT-Originally, posted to Blogger on March 12, 2011.]