I'd die without a cat
This morning I was making a grilled cheese sandwich, and I dropped a small chunk of butter on the floor. Before I could bend over to pick it up, Milo snatched it up and ran to the living room. I chased him around the apartment, but he kept getting away from me, still with the chunk of butter in his mouth. Every now and then he would set it on the floor and try to eat it, but as soon as I caught up with him, he'd snatch it up again and relocate to another barely accessible area.
I finally got the butter from him and cursed him for being such a little shit. This cat is so good at making me laugh.
I'm having fun working on my SOAP (it's just practice taking history, making diagnoses, and creating treatment plans). They give us each a sheet of paper with the various clinical signs an animal presents with, and we're supposed to figure everything out. It's really quite fun, like solving a mystery! It just takes a lot of time and research. My case is a four-month-old English bulldog, "Winston," who has a grade V/VI systolic ejection murmur (best heard at the left base), a moist rash at the base of the tail, and grade I medial patellar luxation. I'm pretty confident he has pulmonic stenosis and tail-fold intertrigo (two things I had never heard of before I read them in a book yesterday), and I'm not worried about the patellar luxation. All of us were such geeks, going to the library Friday evening to do research for our soaps.
I'm shitting bricks about this anatomy test Tuesday. I could handle it (I think) if it were just the dog thoracic limb and the thoracic bones of the cow and horse, but on Friday they just threw the horse forelimb at us and expect us to know it for Tuesday's test. WHAAAAAAT? Firstly, the horse limb is totally foreign to us and has a super-compicated motor apparatus, with more tendons and ligaments than I can shake a stick at. Secondly, there's a football game today, so it will be nearly impossible to make it to the vet school because of traffic and people parking their effing trailers across from the school. My anatomy partner and I are planning on just walking to the lab today. Finally, there are only a few dissected horse limbs for the entire class, and since we got no time in the lab on Friday, the whole class is going to be cramming Monday, and individual time with the limbs or with professors will be severely limited. *sigh*....
I finally got the butter from him and cursed him for being such a little shit. This cat is so good at making me laugh.
I'm having fun working on my SOAP (it's just practice taking history, making diagnoses, and creating treatment plans). They give us each a sheet of paper with the various clinical signs an animal presents with, and we're supposed to figure everything out. It's really quite fun, like solving a mystery! It just takes a lot of time and research. My case is a four-month-old English bulldog, "Winston," who has a grade V/VI systolic ejection murmur (best heard at the left base), a moist rash at the base of the tail, and grade I medial patellar luxation. I'm pretty confident he has pulmonic stenosis and tail-fold intertrigo (two things I had never heard of before I read them in a book yesterday), and I'm not worried about the patellar luxation. All of us were such geeks, going to the library Friday evening to do research for our soaps.
I'm shitting bricks about this anatomy test Tuesday. I could handle it (I think) if it were just the dog thoracic limb and the thoracic bones of the cow and horse, but on Friday they just threw the horse forelimb at us and expect us to know it for Tuesday's test. WHAAAAAAT? Firstly, the horse limb is totally foreign to us and has a super-compicated motor apparatus, with more tendons and ligaments than I can shake a stick at. Secondly, there's a football game today, so it will be nearly impossible to make it to the vet school because of traffic and people parking their effing trailers across from the school. My anatomy partner and I are planning on just walking to the lab today. Finally, there are only a few dissected horse limbs for the entire class, and since we got no time in the lab on Friday, the whole class is going to be cramming Monday, and individual time with the limbs or with professors will be severely limited. *sigh*....