Quite a bit has happened since last time. First, I'm done getting paid for overnight shifts, and in a little of 3 months I'll be doing it as a fourth year... so crazy! When they say time flies in vet school, they aren't kidding. The semester started 3 weeks ago. My classes are Alimentary, cardiopulmonary, urinary, neurology, second half of junior surgery, intro to clinics II, with electives advanced equine II, and food animal surgery. I'll be in class or surgery just about every day until 5 until about 3 weeks before the semester ends. It is tiring. The first week of school I had my last assistant surgery for small animal so I have 6 anesthesias and 3 primary surgery days left. Intro to clinics has been a thorn in every side this year except getting to practice ophthalmology exams earlier this week. We have to spend 8 hours a week every week shadowing different services and they are pre-scheduled times so if nothing is going on (which is typical for most afternoons especially small animal) we are supposed to ask 4th years about their cases and quiz eachother even though 4th years are usually busy doing paperwork. Fun, right?
Anyway, the weekend after we started classes my friend and I went to college station for the texas a&m equine wetlab again this year, and it was so fun. Our labs were field necropsy, ophthalmology, advanced lameness diagnosis, and rectal palpation with laproscopic assistance. We stayed an extra night Saturday because it is exhausting driving 7 hours after the lab and napped, jumped in the hot tub,  and ate dinner at this really fun bar called the dixie chicken. On the way back we stopped at cabelas in fort worth and it was really neat. Had a lot of animal displays and huge fish tanks with huge fish.
Last week we had our first lab for food animal surgery and we practiced doing local blocks like the caudal epidural, proximal paravertebral, peterson, auriculopalpebral, cornual, and 4 point. It was a nice review from last year and good practice for surgery. So, it turns out that only half the class gets to do a section and after picking straws, I of course didn't get to. We did those today. Yesterday, we shaved and prepped our cow, and since they had them induced so they'd develop a bag, we were on call for surgery. We were supposed to do them at 11am today, but ours started calving so 30 minutes into our first class at 830, we got the call. I prepped and did some of her blocks, as well as calf care once baby was out. Our cow was a little uncooperative, especially towards the end, but the calf pretty much came out running. She is super precious. The mom doesn't look like she is going to produce enough milk so we'll probably half to supplement with some colostrum and then milk replacer. Half of  our group has to come back in tonight, tomorrow morning, and sunday night, and me and my friend are going in Saturday night, Sunday morning, and monday morning, to weigh the calf and SOAP (do physicals and such) on calf and momma. Mom kinda rejected her at first but was much better by the time we finally got to leave at 3. It was pretty exhausting. Next week, the other girl in our group that didn't get to do the c section and I are doing an exploratory celiotomy/laparotomy. It'll be fun, but not the same. I'm kind of upset about not getting to do the surgery today because it was pretty much the only reason I took the class. It has a pretty big fee associated with it, too so that's disappointing. Hopefully (for me not the cow) my husband's ranch will need one done soon that I'm able to assist on or at least help with one on my preceptors next year.
Classes are going well otherwise, and we start tests next week with cardiopulmonary and Alimentary. I've been really consistent with working out since school started, even though I've been having to go before school because of the longs days. I got to visit my parents and brother's family last weekend. My niece and nephew couldn't be more adorable. Well, I guess that's all I can remember.