Well I passed large animal medicine (which I was expecting--i didn't like the rotation, but there was no reason for me to fail), I passed large animal surgery, have finished radiology and am now on dermatology...OI!!
Large animal surgery: another sucky rotation, but the clinicians, residents and technicians were nice so i survived. I also got to do a lot of cool things like castrate two horses, extract a horse tooth, participate in a horse colic surgery (open abdomen!), and ultrasound a horse fetus:)
We also saw some weird stuff, like this goat that came to the large animal surgery service...the owners had rescued this goat from it's previous owners who were going through a messy divorce....apparently, the goats rear legs and ears had frozen off at some point.
The owners wanted prosthetics for him.....hahahha....there are a few companies that have made prosthetics for goats though...so we took pictures and sent them to those companies...we tried fitting him in this dog wheel chair you see in the pictures, but he didn't like it, and he got around fine without it...he would balance on his front legs and walk around--seriously! how crazy...
Next was radiology, a super-easy, laid back rotation...just what i needed after a month doing large animal with crazy on calls!
Radiology was fun....here is a radiograph of a tortoise...
I also got to go home for xmas eve, xmas...then came back to school because the clinic was open that friday, but drove back to GB friday night and spent the weekend at home...mother nature was super nice and not only made the roads driveable on every trip, but the snowmobiling conditions were PERFECT!!! here's me on my sled:)
now i am on Dermatology, which is also a pretty laid back rotation:) I'm learning a lot and relaxing--all good things:)
