break

Have a 3 day weekend because of labor day and I'm so glad. The last 2 weeks have been exhausting. I remember last years all the 2nd years saying how bored they were and I don't see it. I spent yesterday at my parent's house getting my horses' feet trimmed and it took almost all day. 4 of them acted awful! Also, I didn't even study a smidge yesterday. When I got home, my husband wanted to go to a friend's house for a football party for the season opener. Well, when we got there they didn't have the channel so we ended up listening to it on the radio, while all the guys played dominos. Pretty lame!
For palpation last week we got a different set of mares and I could feel everything so much better in them. We start ultrasounding on Tuesday so I need to research ultrasound images before then. I also have Pharmacology and Bac T quizzes Wednesday I need to study for the next few days. Tuesday is also the first bovine practitioners cookout/meeting, Wednesday is an orientation for working at the birthing centers for the statefair followed by the first scavma meeting, and Thursday is the first vet business management meeting. Needless to say, this week is going to be a little hectic. Mixed into all of that we have to get a few hours in at the hospital for intro to clinics. The rotations I've done so far are community practice and radiology, so I have equine med, equine surgery, food animal, internal med, small animal surgery, and log 3 necropsies at OADDL, which is Oklahama animal disease and diagnostics lab.
My friend and I are actually keeping up with working out at the gym a few times a week. We are getting bored with the routine though so I thought about taking up tennis lessons; however, they are around the times we have club meetings and as much rushing around as I already do, it might be a bad idea. With our class schedules so erratic, it is hard to fit in any group fitness classes. Speaking of friends, one of mine had to put her dog down last week and it was heartbreaking. I know one of my dogs is getting up there in age and is on phenobarb for seizures and that hasn't done her liver any favors. On that note, I better get back to studying.

Made it the first week. Spent most of the weekend studying, which wasn't fun. I have a new horse here and my husband really enjoys riding him, so we went riding yesterday morning before I went up to the school. It was nice and refreshing to get out. I hope we can keep up riding on Saturday mornings.
I get to palpate more mares tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully I get to feel more comfortable with it. We had a neuro animal come in last weekend at work and on necropsy they found out it was rabies, so we have to have a little meeting tomorrow night reviewing proper handling of neurologic cases. Then payne county animal response team is having a meeting at 5:30 that our professor for emergency response said we should go to if we wanted. So, I'll pretty much be in class and meetings from 8 to after 6! Talk about exhausting! Well, I better get another hour of studying before bed.

Back to school

So I've had my first 2 days of the semester and all I can say is holy cow, I'm worn out. Vet school is definitely kicking my butt. 21 hours is a lot! My core schedule this semester includes clinical anatomy, clinical pathology, Pharmacology 1, infectious diseases 1, parasitology 2, and intro to clinics and my electives are SA medical diagnosis: signs and symptoms, veterinary emergency response, and equine therio. We have had conflict after conflict this semester and it is super frustrating, but we're getting through it I guess. Also parking this semester has been pretty bad because of construction so we have to get to school by like 730 every day.
A buddy and I worked out pretty hard Monday after class and I really started paying for it around 10 this morning. Then, we started (rectally) palpated mares in equine therio today and I wouldn't be surprised if my arms weren't black and blue tomorrow. It was kind of frustrating because I never felt comfortable about the stuff I was finding so I need to brush up on my female anatomy before next week. Hopefully I won't feel so awkward next time.
The first years seem to be getting along well. I heard a few of them talking about how overwhelmed by the amount of material and I was trying to be as un cynical as I can, and trying to remember I felt the same way after day 2, also. We got 4 transfer students in this semester and they seem a little more outgoing than our last 4. I'm thinking it's because they aren't all from the same school. Well, I better get some studying done before I pass out from exhaustion.