It's Finally Friday (figuratively anyways)

It might be Thursday for you, but it's Friday for me. No more work til Monday! My first week went well. You've already heard about my first day on Tuesday. Yesterday wasn't very exciting. It was filled with more nail trims and blood draws with a couple x-rays. Although, there was an ultrasound done. It was kinda cool to see the screen. A really sick kitty came in with lower back pain and LOTS of gas. After taking x-rays, the vet decided to do an ultrasound. The intestines didn't look quite right, as did the pancreas. The kidneys looked very healthy though, so that was good since the kitty was so dehydrated when he first came in. By the end of the day, we had the kitty eating off our fingers, so that was good.

Today, on the other hand, was a little more exciting. Thursdays are going to be my surgery day for the week, so thats what I helped with today. There were 2 cat spays, 1 dog spay, 1 cat neuter, and 3 cat dentals. All but 1 cat was pretty fractious and just wanted to scratch us apart, so they were boxed down. In other words, we stuck a kitty quickly into a clear plastic box thats hooked up to the anesthetic gas. Gas and oxygen enter the box to be inhaled by the kitty to slowly make him/her sleepy. It was quite entertaining watching them enter the excitment stage until becoming fully anesthetized. One cat even managed to slide open the box! But luckily it was disoriented enough to stay in the box. Other than that, it was more nail trims and blood draws. I was able to draw blood today on a kitty, so it was a femoral vein. And I hit the vein and got enough blood for a FIV test. I've never hit that vein before, so I was pretty excited :) I also helped with some ear cleaning, which was pretty darn easy since I have 2 cockers at home. There were a few anal gland expressions, which smelt HORRIBLE. For those of you that have never smelt it before, hope that you never have too. Think of the worst gas ever let out of your pet and multiply it by 100. It STINKS! That was about it for my first week as an intern. Next week is going to be spent at the reception, so it's gonna be a lot of one-on-one with the clients. Hopefully they have enough patience with me.