Just a quick update. I finished my equine surgery rotation last Monday morning. While I do miss working with the horses as that was a lot of fun, I don't miss the rudeness and insensitivity of the clinician.
I am now on my small animal orthopedic surgery rotation. Just like my soft tissue surgery rotation, I am putting in a ton of hours. I get to school between 545 and 630 in the morning depending on the day, and don't leave until between 630 and 8 in the evening. I had a shih tzu who we had to do back surgery on this past Tuesday. He was doing real well after surgery and I got to send him home yesterday. He was in the ICU overnight Tuesday night after his surgery and man, he was a little stinker. We couldn't get a muzzle on him and he was trying to bite us and screaming. It was a party. Luckily, once we got him back to the orthopedic ward Wednesday, he calmed down and only occasionally tried to bite when we took him out of his cage.
Also, this past Monday I took over, and subsequently sent home, a great dane who had broken her radius and ulna in her left front leg. Unfortunately, she came back Wednesday for increased lameness and discharge that was soaking through her bandages. When we unwrapped her bandage, her leg was full of fluid and dripping through the pin tracks from her external fixator. So, she has been with me since Wednesday and we have been changing her bandage every day. It's looking much better so I am hoping to send her home Monday.
Last weekend I was just here in Champaign. Tomorrow I hope to make it to Fairbury for a baptism. However, I am on call tonight from 8pm to 8am tomorrow morning so we will see if the ball rolls in my favor or not!
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