Today was a pretty easy day for me. My appointment was the recheck on the dog who had immune mediated hemolytic anemia and he was doing awesome. We rechecked his red blood cell level and blood protein level and they were looking good so we sent him home and told him to come back in two weeks so we could recheck his bloodwork and maybe start lowering some of his medication doses!
This morning we had one transfer. It is a little puppy who had parvo (a viral disease that causes diarrhea and vomiting in puppies and is contagious) but seemed to be doing better but now is back with vomiting and diarrhea again. So, he gets to spend his time in our isolation ward. Unfortunately, there is no techs who monitor the isolation ward so us fourth year students get the honor of this task. That means, that there needs to be a student there at all times. Luckily there is a camera focused on him so us students can sit in the rounds room and keep an eye on him via the camera. We split up the shifts into two hour shifts overnight. I am the lucky one who got the 2AM-4AM shift. Someone has to do it but it's kind of a bummer 'cuz it's right in the middle of the night! Oh well, hopefully it will be the only time I have to do it!
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