in between my dreams... (i'm running through a ddx)
Do you ever get that feeling where you're so tired you just fall asleep and die in bed? Haha well that's what happened to me (or to us) last night. I was so tired because I only got about an hour's sleep the night before, and had to wake up early to go downtown with E for some special "errands". I was waiting for him to get off work so I spent the whole day riding the DASH bus around the government loop and siting at the city hall park. Phoenix has a lot of bums and weirdos, by the way.
So last night I had to cancel my tutoring (the moms weren't too happy about it, but so what, they've canceled out on me at the last minute too so screw that-- that's a story for another post), let realtors in the house (which I hate), took a hot shower, and after an express dinner of ribs and mashed potatoes just zonked out. The last memory I had was listening to the continuous murmur of the dishwasher. And I remember drifting off to sleep and thinking.... what condition in dogs makes a "washing-machine" murmur on auscultation? what condition in cattle has the same clinical sign?
I'm so screwed up ... and while I'm chopping onions I'm thinking methemoglobinemia and Heinz body anemia.
It's so fun to study!
Answers: PDA in dogs, and traumatic reticuloperitonitis in cattle. Onion toxicosis affects a variety of species, from grazing cattle to water buffalo and dogs and cats.