So Wednesday seemed to be a long day. My patient wasn't a hard case in fact it was a lot like Blaze so I think I had a pretty good handle on what was going on with it. But unfortunately, I was roped into working an on call emergency shift Friday during the day. That put a wrinkle into our plans.
Another wrinkle was thrown into the plans that night and Thursday morning Joe and I took separate cars to St.Joe so I could leave that night and he could stay until Friday night. I took both dogs with me and Mary is a pain in the car. She jumps from seat to seat and its generally annoying and only a little bit distracting. We ate dinner at a restaurant with a bunch of Joe's family including Grandpa John who's 93. I find him so charming! I hung out a little more and then made my way home.
Friday morning, after just convincing the cat that we could sleep in, I was woken up and went into school for my first emergency. This dog had a piece of grass in its eye. Luckily, it wasn't a huge deal. Then I got a dog that had been having seizures. Al is a small white dog and luckily for me, he's also pretty easy to manage. Unfortunately, he also has a tumor or something in his abdomen. He's hanging around till Monday for some more tests and such. Anyway, Walter the unlucky bulldog is doing much better and is off of his ventilator. I feel so bad for his owners but glad that they are such nice people to do all of this for him. He's such a sweet dog.
Friday night, I was beat beyond belief. I wandered out to get the mail and got my antibiotic ad I won off ebay and I got a letter that I wasn't really expecting yet. I got a letter from the Cornell Summer Dairy Institute. I was accepted! I am so excited! Its this summer for eight weeks. I need to rearrange my clinic schedule but I think everything should be on board for that. I also will be leaving Joe and the animals alone for eight weeks. I don't know if that's a good idea but we have a trial run of three weeks in a couple of months so we'll see. I don't know how I'm going to pay for the program since I'm short about $4000 in student loan money but we'll figure it out. I also secretly expect that money to come in in a few weeks too. Anyway, how many of my classmates can say that they went to Cornell even if its just for a program for eight weeks? None of them! That's who! And as Amberle said I'm now the coolest future dairy vet in our class. Though secretly, I'm pretty sure I was all along.
Today, I went into the hospital twice to do assorted patient related chores. I put up Christmas decorations this evening. The front kitchen window has red lights in it and when Roosevelt sits in it from the outside he looks like a devil cat with red fur and black eyes. My bathroom and bedroom are still disasters. Roosevelt's bathroom is cleaned but smelly. I've been finding assorted cat turds throughout the upstairs. I don't know where these are coming from. Some are dry and I though he was taking them from the litter box and playing with them (still a possiblity) but the most recent find were fresh. Hmm...is my cat punishing me for something?
Tomorrow, more patient related chores in the morning and hopefully nothing else. I would like to clean house tomorrow but know if I leave the dogs downstairs, Mary will bark and then Joe will beat me. Sigh.
[EDIT-Originally posted to Blogger on 11/27/11]
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