Not sure where to start. It's been a while and my little family has been through some tough times. After finishing up diagnostics which I really enjoyed, I started small animal internal medicine. We started out pretty busy. In the first week one of my horses hurt herself so I had to doctor her up for several days. Then on September 11 I was stillwater my back up emergency shift when i got the call that my husband's brother, who was a police officer in Kansas, was killed when a drunk driver ran into his squad car during a traffic stop. This hit my husband's family hard since it was my husband's second brother he's had to bury. I took a couple personal days and we went to Kansas for a visiting where we shook the hands with so many people that were touched by my brother in law. It was so moving to know he affected so many lives. They had a memorial service the next day and I don't think there was a single person who kept it together. When I got back my rotation mates had got us flowers and a card which was really sweet.
I ended up with another all night emergency shift the next week and was finally able to leave at lunch for a shower and a nap. I feel like a learned a little but not a ton on that rotation, but after the funeral I was a bit unmotivated.
Next a moved to small animal surgery and man it has to be my least favorite rotation. I started out taking an in patient that was a dog who had back surgery. Those patients are a lot of work. Then the middle of the second week a took a TPLO on the sweetest dog ever who happened to be owned by a vet. On discharge the owner offered me a job at his clinic because I had such great client communication and a good knowledge base so that was awesome. It was in an area that i don't plan on going though, but still nice to get. After a week my first patient took some steps back and ended up staying another week. The second Monday of rotation we had another back injury dog come in and no one else would step up and take the surgery so I scrubbed in and had to do after care of another back dog. This one had a few things during surgery that gave it a pretty poor prognosis which sucked because the owners and the dog we very sweet. We decided to keep going anyway and after 2 weeks he really started to improve. When he was discharged the owner gave me a thank you card and picture of the patient. It's my first one and it really feels good to know that all my hard work was recognized. But man am I glad to be done with that rotation.
I'm on equine medicine now and I love being back in the barn. I'm working with my favorite resident so that's an added bonus. We had a pretty busy beginning of the week and my friend brought in a horse we were rechecking from her clinic so it was good seeing her. On Tuesday morning I hit a deer the way to school. It messed up the bumper and grill pretty good, but we only have liability on the truck so I don't know when we'll that fixed. Then a girl on my rotation was in a pretty bad car wreck that totaled her car and she got pretty beat up in the face, but was still able to come in. We've been euthanizing and sending several cases to necropsy so we've been watching those. Kinda sad cases too that were hard to see go.
I take my national boards the beginning of December which is terrifying and scary and omg! Then in just a few short months I'll be a doctor! I still can't believe fast everything has gone.