First!
Veteran's day week! yay! well, i guess i'm not really that excited but there was a very cool display out near my house for the whole week...i almost teared up every time i drove by....
So I live near a HUGE cemetery and during that week, the Veteran's for Peace group set up this display along the road in the cemetery that was essentially a mini gravestone for every solider that has died since we entered this god-forsaken "war"
It was called the "memorial mile"
There was a sign between each year and each location (afghanistan and iraq)
Here you can see the graveyard in the back
they even put a little wisconsin flag on every gravestone that was for someone who was from wisconsin that died:(
and it went on all the way down the road for almost a mile
Pretty moving....
Anyway, my next rotation after therio was VACATION....to study:( sounded awesome but it was soooooooo exhausting....i woudl get up early in teh morning, either sit down at my desk or go to the library and try to put in 12 hours of studying a day for boards.
oh yeah--boards. that's why i was torturing myself--but what is boards you ask.
The veterinary boards exam is the big exam all fourth year vet students have to take and pass. it's one (of the many) requirements we need to get our license. this exam is intimidating though....a 6 hour exam of 360 multiple choice questions covering everything we've ever learned (and more). it is a very scary exam.
so after 2 weeks of studying i took it...and i truely feel like i failed...which means i would have to re-take it in teh spring...*sigh* we'll see...i'm not sure anyone feels like they passed, but i only knew 40% of the answers, so i guess we'll see how good of a guesser i am.
oh, i find out if i passed in february...so at least i have a few months of not studying...
so after vacation/studying, boards, I am now on Large Animal Medicine rotation. which is pretty much just hell. i did get to play with a baby goat yesterday, so that was fun. but that's about it. it's very horrible. Why is it hell? torturing animals. i hate it. last wed we had a dairy cow come in "down" (couldn't stand). after some radiographs we saw she had a broken femur (leg bone) and dislocated hip on the other side. Bone pain is extremely painful and a dislocated hip is likewise painful. However, her owners wanted her genetics so they chose to keep her alive for a week with us so they could flush her embryos before euthanizing her (they had bred her the day before she went down)
so this whole last week we had this broken cow in the hospital---just keeping it alive so we could kill it. and she was in horrible pain. We did the best we could to keep her pain to a miminum. We put an epidural catheter in so we could administer pain medication directly to her lumbar spinal cord, gave her NSAIDS, and slung her in a float tank (like a huge bath tub that cows can float in--this cow did love her float tank) but you could tell she was still in pain, and to me it's incredibly unethical to torture an animal for a week so you can get 1 embryo out of her. that's all we got out of her today before we euthanized her. and it will probably not be viable b/c she's been stressed out for a week.
I shouldn't be so judgemental b/c i drink the milk and eat the cheese that comes from dairy cows. i should be vegan.
but anyway, i'll stop my ranting and get on to better things like thanksgiving!! yay!! i get to come home, at least for the day:) back to work on friday.
Here is a nice happy picture of a cute animal so i end on a positive note:)
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