Foal Team False Alarm

I'm actually a little bummed about it!

My foal team was on call last night from midnight to 8AM. At about 10 I got a call saying a foal was coming in around 12:30 and they'd need us there to help. I was scheduled for the second half of the shift (4AM-8AM... we're split into an A group of 3 people and a B group of 3 people who rotate first and second half of shift on call), so I went to bed pretty much right away.

Then, I got a text at 2:45 that we didn't have to go in. B group got the blood work and radiographs done.. and the foal wasn't down, so they got sent home and we didn't have to go in.

I'm kind of sad. While I'm glad not to have had to leave my apartment at 3:45 AM, it would have been neat to play with a baby foal!

Foal Team

My friend Caroline convinced me to sign up for Foal Team. It's essentially a class that counts towards credit 3rd year, but mostly it's for experience dealing with horses. We're on call at certain times to go in and help monitor baby foals that need ICU kind of supportive care. It sounds pretty interesting.

However, the coordinators randomly assigned groups and group leaders... and I'm stuck being one. It's a little bit of a raw deal, especially given that I don't really know anyone in my group. However, I now have it divided up so that out of each 8 hour shift we're assigned, each group member is only on call for 4 of those hours (however, the ICU people will only ever call me, and I have to call the rest of the people. Boo!)


So, I'm hoping it will be an interesting experience, but I'm a little worried! My first on call shift is this Friday, from 4-8PM. (The whole shift is 4PM-midnight.)