I haven't been posting much lately because we just moved into the second round of exams. This time, we started with Anatomy, rather than ending with it.
I spent the whole week in pretty intense study mode. I think I learned it pretty well, or at least, did the best I could!
The exam went well enough! I don't look at the key posted afterwards, because honestly, it doesn't make much sense to just look at a list of terms disconnected from anything. I don't even remember what I answered for the questions by the time the key gets posted.
The most interesting part of the exam, though, was that I managed to get a skin reaction about halfway through the lab portion. I was sitting there at my questions (we rotate through stations every 70 seconds) scratching my neck like crazy. Eventually, Dr. Herman came over and asked me if I was ok. I told her that my neck REALLY itched and she looked at iy and said I was gettng some hives. She then brought me a damp paper towel and I rubbed it down, which helped a lot but didn't make it better. She then brought me some cortizone creme, which helped a lot. At least, it made it bearable to finish the exam! My head and neck still feel a little weird though!
I guess I am just really reactive to formaldehyde (which I already kind of knew, I just didn't know it was so extreme. It might just be getting worse as I'm exposed more.)
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Funny/Interesting Things Professors Say #2
(I meant to do this weekly, but then I kept getting busy! Also, I will add more once I go home and have all my notes with me. I only carry a select set on any given day at school.)
Anatomy:
"We don't want those 50 skull bones moving around... We want joints of stability there!"
"Gomphosis... kind of a silly word, but a joint nonetheless."
"Do we need to know innervation? Absolutely not... yet."
"When I was in vet school, I was taught, and learned, and believed that somebody made these up. But they do exist! but, functionally, they don't exist."
"We can't use 'knee' in veterinary medicine because of those horse people."
Physiology:
Dr. Cudd
"If you bang your retina with a hammer, you would have a sensation of light."
"They're going to think you're a Turk if you don't."
"If you go out of here and only vaccinate poodles for the rest of your life, you'd be in your own personal hell. At least, I would be."
"I don't know how many of you watch Robot Wars.... yeah, it's a great show."
"Obviously, the [chicken] head is not required for flapping and running."
"We're going to be black and white in here, but it's a grey world out there, folks."
"It's what's going to take care of you if a bengal tiger walks in."
"The nervous system is kind of like a little old lady who drives with both feet."
"The rare horse can kind of flip out on you."
"If you dilated all your blood vessels maximally at once... you'd die."
"I was an exciting horse doc... now, I am a boring professor."
"We don't have to think 'I don't want to urinate right now' all the time."
"There are many reasons dogs could be having accidents in the house. Sometimes, they're 'on purposes.'"
"Most dogs don't drive."
"Skeletal muscle is greedy, liver is generous."
"When you graduate, 50% of you will be poodle punchers. 10% of you will have green arms..."
"They have "Vagaled" out. Their heart rate goes buhbuhbump... bump... .... ... clunk."
"Hopefully, if you're terrified you're running and not crying."
"The important thing about eyes is, you can screw them up."
"Human adaptation to light takes about 30 minutes... animals just aren't saying."
"Usually, that's an acute death."
"Know the classic drug for this? Cocaine."
"Animals are very uncomfortable with cornea problems whihc can lead to veterinarian discomfort."
"Ear infections. Do you know what they smell like? I'm pretty sure you'll find they smell like money."
Dr. Wasser:
"You know which edition you're getting because the number of dolphins on the cover increases. So, even if you can't read, you know which one you've got."
"Bald eagles... not really a good bird. They're fancy vultures."
"As you know from your experience with vision..."
"Owls are... dumb as bricks. They're massively stupid. It may be that they don't have so much brain because they have so much eyeball."
"I was out in the swamp at night... usually for biology reasons..."
"There's your mouse... or rat... it's kind of hard to tell. There's your rodent."
"This is about to be an ex-mouse."
"Your eyes would shrivel up, rendering them useless."
"I don't know why you'd want to have a poisonous fish on your space ship."
"I don't mean me.. I mean 'we'... science..."
Phys lab:
"Just think of the horse as a big, one toed dog."
Histology:
"I don't know if penguins have lymph nodes..."
"I don't eat any kind of viscera. But, Dr. Russel, he'll eat anything. He's British."
Immunology:
"We basically dealt with the enemy last week."
"We don't consider these professional phagocytes. They must be amateurs, I guess."
"A cell gets infected with a virus and gets stressed. You would too."
"Like many diagrams in immunology, there are a lot of boxes and arrows that go all over the place."
"Remember that part of organic chemistry? Oh, I feel sorry for you!"
"...T cells are a hell of a lot more complicated than that."
"They're the kind of cells that live fast and die young."
"Macrophages are sloppy eaters... they drool a little."
"... probably working with whooping cough. That was popular in those days."
"Steroids have a different context if you're an Olympic athlete, but these have different actions!"
Anatomy:
"We don't want those 50 skull bones moving around... We want joints of stability there!"
"Gomphosis... kind of a silly word, but a joint nonetheless."
"Do we need to know innervation? Absolutely not... yet."
"When I was in vet school, I was taught, and learned, and believed that somebody made these up. But they do exist! but, functionally, they don't exist."
"We can't use 'knee' in veterinary medicine because of those horse people."
Physiology:
Dr. Cudd
"If you bang your retina with a hammer, you would have a sensation of light."
"They're going to think you're a Turk if you don't."
"If you go out of here and only vaccinate poodles for the rest of your life, you'd be in your own personal hell. At least, I would be."
"I don't know how many of you watch Robot Wars.... yeah, it's a great show."
"Obviously, the [chicken] head is not required for flapping and running."
"We're going to be black and white in here, but it's a grey world out there, folks."
"It's what's going to take care of you if a bengal tiger walks in."
"The nervous system is kind of like a little old lady who drives with both feet."
"The rare horse can kind of flip out on you."
"If you dilated all your blood vessels maximally at once... you'd die."
"I was an exciting horse doc... now, I am a boring professor."
"We don't have to think 'I don't want to urinate right now' all the time."
"There are many reasons dogs could be having accidents in the house. Sometimes, they're 'on purposes.'"
"Most dogs don't drive."
"Skeletal muscle is greedy, liver is generous."
"When you graduate, 50% of you will be poodle punchers. 10% of you will have green arms..."
"They have "Vagaled" out. Their heart rate goes buhbuhbump... bump... .... ... clunk."
"Hopefully, if you're terrified you're running and not crying."
"The important thing about eyes is, you can screw them up."
"Human adaptation to light takes about 30 minutes... animals just aren't saying."
"Usually, that's an acute death."
"Know the classic drug for this? Cocaine."
"Animals are very uncomfortable with cornea problems whihc can lead to veterinarian discomfort."
"Ear infections. Do you know what they smell like? I'm pretty sure you'll find they smell like money."
Dr. Wasser:
"You know which edition you're getting because the number of dolphins on the cover increases. So, even if you can't read, you know which one you've got."
"Bald eagles... not really a good bird. They're fancy vultures."
"As you know from your experience with vision..."
"Owls are... dumb as bricks. They're massively stupid. It may be that they don't have so much brain because they have so much eyeball."
"I was out in the swamp at night... usually for biology reasons..."
"There's your mouse... or rat... it's kind of hard to tell. There's your rodent."
"This is about to be an ex-mouse."
"Your eyes would shrivel up, rendering them useless."
"I don't know why you'd want to have a poisonous fish on your space ship."
"I don't mean me.. I mean 'we'... science..."
Phys lab:
"Just think of the horse as a big, one toed dog."
Histology:
"I don't know if penguins have lymph nodes..."
"I don't eat any kind of viscera. But, Dr. Russel, he'll eat anything. He's British."
Immunology:
"We basically dealt with the enemy last week."
"We don't consider these professional phagocytes. They must be amateurs, I guess."
"A cell gets infected with a virus and gets stressed. You would too."
"Like many diagrams in immunology, there are a lot of boxes and arrows that go all over the place."
"Remember that part of organic chemistry? Oh, I feel sorry for you!"
"...T cells are a hell of a lot more complicated than that."
"They're the kind of cells that live fast and die young."
"Macrophages are sloppy eaters... they drool a little."
"... probably working with whooping cough. That was popular in those days."
"Steroids have a different context if you're an Olympic athlete, but these have different actions!"
Monday, September 15, 2008
Osteosarcoma
My cadaver in anatomy this week was euthanized probably relatively shortly before dying of cancer.
When we started to open the thoracic cavity today we found a little growth on the bone of the 7th or 8th right rib. As we opened the cavity further, we found another small growth and then an enormous (2-3 inches across, in a 40 or so pound dog) growth on his right 1st rib. We showed it to Dr. Hoffman, who was very impressed, and then told us that this was probably the dog with a tumor on his thoracic limb (it was!)
So, the poor little guy (who was probably only about 8 months old) had a primary tumor on his antebrachium (forearm) that metastisized to several locations in his thoracic cavity... and we think we can feel a tumor or two on his liver through the diaphragm. Too bad we aren't opening the abdominal cavity this week!
When we started to open the thoracic cavity today we found a little growth on the bone of the 7th or 8th right rib. As we opened the cavity further, we found another small growth and then an enormous (2-3 inches across, in a 40 or so pound dog) growth on his right 1st rib. We showed it to Dr. Hoffman, who was very impressed, and then told us that this was probably the dog with a tumor on his thoracic limb (it was!)
So, the poor little guy (who was probably only about 8 months old) had a primary tumor on his antebrachium (forearm) that metastisized to several locations in his thoracic cavity... and we think we can feel a tumor or two on his liver through the diaphragm. Too bad we aren't opening the abdominal cavity this week!
Monday, September 8, 2008
Exams
Today I finished the incredibly grueling first round of exams. Between 2 Mondays, I took Immunology, Histology, Anatomy and Physiology.
So far, I have three of those grades back (including the Physiology exam I took this morning.)
Immunology: 98%
Histology: 94%
Physiology: 92%
Basically, I'm doing really, really well and I feel really, really good about it!
And I'm not going to study tonight. I deserve a break after all that!
So far, I have three of those grades back (including the Physiology exam I took this morning.)
Immunology: 98%
Histology: 94%
Physiology: 92%
Basically, I'm doing really, really well and I feel really, really good about it!
And I'm not going to study tonight. I deserve a break after all that!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
AAFP Panther Declaw
This Friday evening to Saturday evening I went to San Antonio with the American Association of Feline Practitioners to watch a panther declaw then do some practice visual-only medical exams at a wildlife sanctuary.
After a relatively long drive, we went out to dinner together as a group!
Saturday morning, we went to the clinic and posed for a photo-op before doing surgery!
We then weighed him, drew some blood, did a bunch of xrays then did 2 declaws to remove ingrown toenails that were causing him significant pain. This is a picture of me and the black leopard after his surgery.
Then we did some practice medical exams and got to see a lot of animals at the wildlife sanctuary. It was really interesting. Though, it got really hot, and because of some scheduling trouble, we ended up skipping lunch. So, by 3:45 I was hot, hungry, a little dizzy and totally ready to leave.
After a relatively long drive, we went out to dinner together as a group!
Saturday morning, we went to the clinic and posed for a photo-op before doing surgery!
We then weighed him, drew some blood, did a bunch of xrays then did 2 declaws to remove ingrown toenails that were causing him significant pain. This is a picture of me and the black leopard after his surgery.
Then we did some practice medical exams and got to see a lot of animals at the wildlife sanctuary. It was really interesting. Though, it got really hot, and because of some scheduling trouble, we ended up skipping lunch. So, by 3:45 I was hot, hungry, a little dizzy and totally ready to leave.
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