Sunday, June 22, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Work hard, play hard.
A few highlights from the quarter:
Black and White formal with my favorite Creeper and future roomie (Lizzy)!
Megan participating in the tortilla toss at Bay to Breakers, rockin 80s workout gear.
Lizard and "Candy for Snacks," our favorite drink that we invented for her birthday Cocktail Party.
Amber, Jason and Lizzy enjoying Brewfest at Raley Field (I was the DD).
Ginger Spice and Sporty Spice at the Smoker 2008 ("Party like a Rock Star").
Little squeezing herself into her new favorite toy, providing comic relief while Annie and I study for finals. Seriously, she barely fits in that box.
Equine Locomotor Anatomy: the perfect excuse to color!!
Black and White formal with my favorite Creeper and future roomie (Lizzy)!
Megan participating in the tortilla toss at Bay to Breakers, rockin 80s workout gear.
Lizard and "Candy for Snacks," our favorite drink that we invented for her birthday Cocktail Party.
Amber, Jason and Lizzy enjoying Brewfest at Raley Field (I was the DD).
Ginger Spice and Sporty Spice at the Smoker 2008 ("Party like a Rock Star").
Little squeezing herself into her new favorite toy, providing comic relief while Annie and I study for finals. Seriously, she barely fits in that box.
Equine Locomotor Anatomy: the perfect excuse to color!!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Grief
Interesting stuff from our doctoring course:
-For thousands of years, people came from families with 12+ children, some of whom died before the age of 4. More died before the age of 24 or 25 from cuts and scrapes that got infected. If we were not able to deal with the grief of multiple losses of people we loved, if we were not hardwired to get through those times, we would be extinct. So thinking that you have to say exactly the right thing to get them through their grief is a bit ridiculous. If the world depended on you saying the right thing, it would be a sad world.
-For thousands of years, people came from families with 12+ children, some of whom died before the age of 4. More died before the age of 24 or 25 from cuts and scrapes that got infected. If we were not able to deal with the grief of multiple losses of people we loved, if we were not hardwired to get through those times, we would be extinct. So thinking that you have to say exactly the right thing to get them through their grief is a bit ridiculous. If the world depended on you saying the right thing, it would be a sad world.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Funnies
As finals approach, the profs are getting crazier and crazier...
Exercise intolerance in a cat. What an oxymoron.
It's no fun drowning in your own fluids. Find another way to die. There are plenty of them out there.
Your heart can't get larger forever. It's limited by your chest wall. Haven't you all seen Alien?
When a pig takes a dump, if you will...
Vegetarian owners that feed their cats vegetarian diets...just shoot 'em.
Some are very very dead, some are very very healthy.
All they knew was that I went to slaughterhouses and collected chicken s**t. Or I stuck my arm in the cows and went, "Mmmhmm. Fifty bucks."
Exercise intolerance in a cat. What an oxymoron.
It's no fun drowning in your own fluids. Find another way to die. There are plenty of them out there.
Your heart can't get larger forever. It's limited by your chest wall. Haven't you all seen Alien?
When a pig takes a dump, if you will...
Vegetarian owners that feed their cats vegetarian diets...just shoot 'em.
Some are very very dead, some are very very healthy.
All they knew was that I went to slaughterhouses and collected chicken s**t. Or I stuck my arm in the cows and went, "Mmmhmm. Fifty bucks."
Friday, May 23, 2008
Puppy!
This is the dog we anesthetized in lab. Pretty much the sweetest dog ever. Seriously, his tail was wagging so hard when we tried to put in a catheter than he knocked all of our supplies off of the table. When we turned off the anesthesia machine, his tail was wagging as soon as his eyes opened. I wish I could adopt him!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Cardio
This was just WAY too out of control.
From our equine medicine syllabus, chapter on cardiology: "There are no known drugs that increase skeletal muscle contractility. Spinach is the only make-believe agent able to do this. Kryptonite is a make-believe example of a skeletal muscle negative intropic agent fur Superman."
Also, we anesthetized our first dog today. And it woke up afterwards. Success!!
From our equine medicine syllabus, chapter on cardiology: "There are no known drugs that increase skeletal muscle contractility. Spinach is the only make-believe agent able to do this. Kryptonite is a make-believe example of a skeletal muscle negative intropic agent fur Superman."
Also, we anesthetized our first dog today. And it woke up afterwards. Success!!
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wow. A month.
Hard to believe. A few quick updates:
-I'm half way to my fundraising goal for Turkey! Thanks everyone!
-I got hired as a C Barn nurse (food animal barn) for next year. I'll still be working as a B barn nurse too (horse barn).
-Drove out to see Tyrone Wells in SF (also got to see Mark (buddy from high school) play drums for him).
-I've consumed a RIDICULOUS amount of Diet Coke. Some people drink coffee, I drink Diet Coke. Yum. Also eating a lot of yogurt (+ frozen fruit and granola...the frozen fruit acts like ice cubes and keeps it cold, plus it's ultra tasty!).
-3 more weeks of classes, then finals week of doom, then I'm half way finished with vet school!
-Summer: home for a week-ish, month in Turkey, month-ish in Visalia (yeehaw!), Annie's wedding, start third year of school.
Quotes:
There is diarrhea of every orifice. What would diarrhea of the skin look like?" -FA med
It sounded like the Count on sesame Street...prototheca...ah ah ah!"-FA med
To get into the party you have to have an LDA"-clin path
They put Ernie in the endotracheal tube. They were lucky Ernie didn't end up in the horse's airway.-eq med
When death is the alternative, there are no rules. -eq med
If it looks like a duck and fights like a duck, it's probably a duck. -eq med
You may get the fracture fixed but the leg is going to fall off afterwards.-anesth
It's one of my talents. I've always been able to sing heart sounds.-eq/SA med
TFMA. Too something much anesthetic. -anesthesia
The four F's: food, fight, flight and reproduction. -neuro
Sinus tachycardia. I had that on the elliptical this morning. -eq med
If you stop these beats, they stop forever. And you know about forever. -eq med
student: How small of a dog you can put a pacemaker in?
prof: A couple grams.
student: What?
prof: Oh, uh, yeah we've put them in mosquitoes. Bzzzzzz.
Being a boxer, he'll jump back up and go "(shakes head) Whoa! That was cool. Can't hardly wait for the next one." -eq/SA med
Obviously when you "thump" things you cause a little consternation. -eq med
-I'm half way to my fundraising goal for Turkey! Thanks everyone!
-I got hired as a C Barn nurse (food animal barn) for next year. I'll still be working as a B barn nurse too (horse barn).
-Drove out to see Tyrone Wells in SF (also got to see Mark (buddy from high school) play drums for him).
-I've consumed a RIDICULOUS amount of Diet Coke. Some people drink coffee, I drink Diet Coke. Yum. Also eating a lot of yogurt (+ frozen fruit and granola...the frozen fruit acts like ice cubes and keeps it cold, plus it's ultra tasty!).
-3 more weeks of classes, then finals week of doom, then I'm half way finished with vet school!
-Summer: home for a week-ish, month in Turkey, month-ish in Visalia (yeehaw!), Annie's wedding, start third year of school.
Quotes:
There is diarrhea of every orifice. What would diarrhea of the skin look like?" -FA med
It sounded like the Count on sesame Street...prototheca...ah ah ah!"-FA med
To get into the party you have to have an LDA"-clin path
They put Ernie in the endotracheal tube. They were lucky Ernie didn't end up in the horse's airway.-eq med
When death is the alternative, there are no rules. -eq med
If it looks like a duck and fights like a duck, it's probably a duck. -eq med
You may get the fracture fixed but the leg is going to fall off afterwards.-anesth
It's one of my talents. I've always been able to sing heart sounds.-eq/SA med
TFMA. Too something much anesthetic. -anesthesia
The four F's: food, fight, flight and reproduction. -neuro
Sinus tachycardia. I had that on the elliptical this morning. -eq med
If you stop these beats, they stop forever. And you know about forever. -eq med
student: How small of a dog you can put a pacemaker in?
prof: A couple grams.
student: What?
prof: Oh, uh, yeah we've put them in mosquitoes. Bzzzzzz.
Being a boxer, he'll jump back up and go "(shakes head) Whoa! That was cool. Can't hardly wait for the next one." -eq/SA med
Obviously when you "thump" things you cause a little consternation. -eq med
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