Day 3

I think my feet might fall off. Seriously, I need to get up and take a shower but I just don't think I can stand. I learned that the dress code was very lax, techs aren't encouraged to wear full scrubs unless they're a surgery tech (which makes me very sad...I love scrub pants!), and some don't even wear scrubs at all....and everyone wears sandals. It took me until today to try it with my tevas....and I think that was a mistake. I love sandals, and I'll wear them again, but not those ones. I think my feet grew, they've been pinching for a while, but damn....the last 6 hours were torture. It's also just a bit of a mental block to think about wearing sandals since I'd have gotten my butt kicked if I ever did that at any of the practices I've been at before.

Abscess kitty is doing okay, he went under the knife today and got all the necrotic tissue around the wound taken off (the doctor working on him thinks that it could have been a fan belt or something like that since it seemed burned to her), castrated, vaccinated, and had a drain put in. He is now one hurtin' kitty! But I think tomorrow he'll be much better, he was waking up nicely when I left, so it looks good.

It was a busy day, but not so busy for me for the most part. I did what I could, a bit more prescriptions and spoke a bit more with the doctors, who are very nice, and tried to stay out of the way during the busy rush times. I did get to help with some more challenging animals, like a grumpy kitty and a really wiggly, but nice, dog. I still think really angry and vocal cats are worse than dogs...although I have no wish to be bitten in any shape or form!

A neat thing that happened today was that I got to assist in an x-ray. I'd never done that before, and while I just held, it was still neat. I also got to play with the vet test machine a bit more and do more pharmaceutical things.

Hmm...there might be more, but it's taken me about an hour to write this because I keep falling asleep in my chair. Is this a taste of what vet school is going to be like?