I found something out recently. Vet school is making me ugly.
Weight gain and muscle loss aside, I think I've gotten uglier since I started school. I'm always (almost at least) inside. I'm always tired, stressed out and worried about things. Such as tonight when I'm worried about being paged for a pathology 'emergency'. I use emergency loosely because first off, the animal is dead already and secondly, we won't necropsy it until 10am at the earilest anyway.
I've lost my tan. I have bags under my eyes. Even if I get plenty of sleep there are bags under my eyes. I don't smile enough.
When I was on EFAST, I was always tired. But it was different. I was doing things I loved with animals that I loved. It wasn't a chore getting called out in the middle of the night. Even for as tired as I was, the bags disappeared. I love being outside and that does wonders for me. I hope every day of work is like that.
Pathology has been both bad and good. In general, it smells. In general, its gross. But its the closest thing to meat inspection we get. Yesterday, I came close to vomiting and if you know my gag reflex, you know it must of been very bad. The kidney I was trying to pull out was roughly the consistancy of gravy. Today, we necropsied two puppies that didn't from outward appearences have anything wrong. The owner (and after finding nothing, the pathologist) believes that the food was bad. He lost four of his seven dogs hours after feeding them from a new bag. Today was also an ordeal with a horse. When an animal is brought in on a covered trailer, we hook it up on the dock and then the people drive away. The animals falls and then we can lift it up. However, this horse trailer also had a ramp and I wasn't sure it was the best idea to have the guy drive away with the ramp dragging. After being scolded by Dr.Mitchell (I didn't think he was yelling but he apoligized for it so I guess he was.), we hooked the horse up and the guy drove off. But he didn't just pull away, he floored it! Then there was some ordeal about not being able to lift the horse up. Physics got involved and we were told multiple times not to stand where the horse would fall on us. Dr.Mitchell was very helpful with his Forrest Gump voice.
Moral of the story-When asked why you need physics for vet school during your vet school interview, a correct answer would be to assist with the lifting of dead horses into the cooler.
I wonder if the pager is even on? I am afraid of messing with it so I didn't. I think the on light is on. If I can get the time to come up, then its on, right? OH! I know! I can call it and see if it buzzes!
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on March 19, 2011.]
Weight gain and muscle loss aside, I think I've gotten uglier since I started school. I'm always (almost at least) inside. I'm always tired, stressed out and worried about things. Such as tonight when I'm worried about being paged for a pathology 'emergency'. I use emergency loosely because first off, the animal is dead already and secondly, we won't necropsy it until 10am at the earilest anyway.
I've lost my tan. I have bags under my eyes. Even if I get plenty of sleep there are bags under my eyes. I don't smile enough.
When I was on EFAST, I was always tired. But it was different. I was doing things I loved with animals that I loved. It wasn't a chore getting called out in the middle of the night. Even for as tired as I was, the bags disappeared. I love being outside and that does wonders for me. I hope every day of work is like that.
Pathology has been both bad and good. In general, it smells. In general, its gross. But its the closest thing to meat inspection we get. Yesterday, I came close to vomiting and if you know my gag reflex, you know it must of been very bad. The kidney I was trying to pull out was roughly the consistancy of gravy. Today, we necropsied two puppies that didn't from outward appearences have anything wrong. The owner (and after finding nothing, the pathologist) believes that the food was bad. He lost four of his seven dogs hours after feeding them from a new bag. Today was also an ordeal with a horse. When an animal is brought in on a covered trailer, we hook it up on the dock and then the people drive away. The animals falls and then we can lift it up. However, this horse trailer also had a ramp and I wasn't sure it was the best idea to have the guy drive away with the ramp dragging. After being scolded by Dr.Mitchell (I didn't think he was yelling but he apoligized for it so I guess he was.), we hooked the horse up and the guy drove off. But he didn't just pull away, he floored it! Then there was some ordeal about not being able to lift the horse up. Physics got involved and we were told multiple times not to stand where the horse would fall on us. Dr.Mitchell was very helpful with his Forrest Gump voice.
Moral of the story-When asked why you need physics for vet school during your vet school interview, a correct answer would be to assist with the lifting of dead horses into the cooler.
I wonder if the pager is even on? I am afraid of messing with it so I didn't. I think the on light is on. If I can get the time to come up, then its on, right? OH! I know! I can call it and see if it buzzes!
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on March 19, 2011.]
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