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Dear Livejournal:
Oh god how I miss opera.
Now that I'm just about done with school (just need to finish my internship and pass comp II), I can't wait to study opera at least part-time again.
Unfortunately my internship is taking up all of my extra time, so I'm not making money. And if I'm not making money, I can't afford lessons. Alas.
But my internship has shown me some really interesting things. I've been making mental notes of the things I want to write down when I have the motivation. Like the cat that came in with maggots crawling out of its rectum. Turns out its colon had completely necrosed and the maggots were eating the rotten flesh. Or the 150 lbs German Shepherd Dog that was bleeding so much the entire hospital smelled like a slaughterhouse. Or the tiny puppy I fell in love with named Teddy Bear who had Parvo, and just when we thought he was over the hump he died in my arms. (For the love of God, if you get a puppy PLEASE vaccinate it for Parvovirus, it is horrific and it's not something you want to go through.)
Oh, and the dog that came in with DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulopathy). Every time we touched the dog, no matter how gently, it bruised and bled from that spot. Lots of things can lead to DIC but it turned out this dog had hepatitis, which is one of the more common causes of it. Once DIC hits there's nothing to be done but euthanize the animal as quickly as possible so they don't suffer anymore. That was a Bernese Mountain Dog and it was fairly traumatic to everyone involved to see it bleeding from everywhere at once.
But yeah, eventually I'm going to make journal entries about some of the more interesting things I've seen at VESCONE. But right now I'm hungry.
Oh god how I miss opera.
Now that I'm just about done with school (just need to finish my internship and pass comp II), I can't wait to study opera at least part-time again.
Unfortunately my internship is taking up all of my extra time, so I'm not making money. And if I'm not making money, I can't afford lessons. Alas.
But my internship has shown me some really interesting things. I've been making mental notes of the things I want to write down when I have the motivation. Like the cat that came in with maggots crawling out of its rectum. Turns out its colon had completely necrosed and the maggots were eating the rotten flesh. Or the 150 lbs German Shepherd Dog that was bleeding so much the entire hospital smelled like a slaughterhouse. Or the tiny puppy I fell in love with named Teddy Bear who had Parvo, and just when we thought he was over the hump he died in my arms. (For the love of God, if you get a puppy PLEASE vaccinate it for Parvovirus, it is horrific and it's not something you want to go through.)
Oh, and the dog that came in with DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulopathy). Every time we touched the dog, no matter how gently, it bruised and bled from that spot. Lots of things can lead to DIC but it turned out this dog had hepatitis, which is one of the more common causes of it. Once DIC hits there's nothing to be done but euthanize the animal as quickly as possible so they don't suffer anymore. That was a Bernese Mountain Dog and it was fairly traumatic to everyone involved to see it bleeding from everywhere at once.
But yeah, eventually I'm going to make journal entries about some of the more interesting things I've seen at VESCONE. But right now I'm hungry.