Life and Veterinary Adventures

It's been a while since I've posted. Since I'm on spring break, I figured I should write a post before I'm consumed by school again. So, since my last post, I have adopted Honey myself. She didn't have any prospective homes and the people who wanted her just couldn't figure out a way to make it work. While it hasn't been easy for me either, I think she'll ultimately be very happy with me as her momma. She'll be staying with my dad for a few months until I'm more on my feet and have a better schedule. I'm currently gone 12 hours a day and haven't had much luck getting a job that can work around that, so having her live with me just isn't in the cards at the moment. I just hope she can adjust to all the commotion at my dad's. She hasn't been having the easiest time the past few days here. As far as school goes, I have 1 more 2 month term (which is about 5 weeks of classes, 2 random weeks off, and 1 week on a...

I wanted to post on my social networking sites before I post on the public adoptions site in hopes that Honey will go to someone I know so that I can still see her and so I don't have to say goodbye to her forever. (Maybe I'm selfish but I love her too much to never see her again and get her hugs and kisses.) I need someone to adopt Honey as soon as possible. She's a very sweet Vizsla mix, she just turned 1 this past November. She is spayed, microchipped, and vaccinated. She's in excellent health and she knows many commands including, sit, paw, down, wait, an d free. She would do best in a home with no cats, but other dogs are okay. Honey has been through a lot in her short life. She is a survivor of Parvovirus, a deadly condition that most puppies don't survive from. When she arrived at my school she was constantly crying from the pain of what it put her young, weak body through. Luckily, she was saved by a plasma transfusion and she is still h...

This winter has been pretty weird. We've had hardly any snow and the temperatures have been fairly warm for the midwest with a few below freezing days scattered in there. Last Friday was exceptionally snowy, however, and I was stuck driving in it. It usually takes me 45 minutes to 1 hour to/from school, but last Friday it took me over 4 hours to get home. It was awful. When I finally got home, I ran to the bathroom and then got ready to meet up with Tristan, Ninna, and Sean for a movie date. At least four people ditched their kennel duty that night at school, and a few people from my cohort who weren't scheduled decided to stay and help out. I'm glad my cohort actually cares about the well-being of our animals, unlike the newbies. (But I won't get into that.) This past week at school we were able to perform ultrasounds and we got to see the reptile show.  Ultrasounds are more complicated than one might think. There's a lot that goes into getting ...

Today is my last day of a two week long break from school. It was much needed for all of us and I feel quite rejuvenated. The Friday before our break started was pretty pointless. We had no final exams and we were originally supposed to have this day off according to our schedules. But we need those "contact hours." So, we spent the day goofing off, wandering Tinley Park, and playing games. The next day, a bunch of us went to Toni's house for an ugly Christmas sweater party. I think this video explains the night pretty well. We also went to Tristan's work's holiday party, which was 20's murder mystery themed. Everyone's costumes looked so great. Here are a couple shots of Ninna and me as we were leaving. A great deal of my break involved driving for Christmas. We drove to Milwaukee for my mom's immediate family a week before Christmas. On Christmas Eve, we drove to my great uncle's in Lake Forest, and then drove...

I don't really have a "life" right now.  I spend what seems like 80% of my day with these people: Doing nerdy things like this and this: and this: I really like these people. Sure I get sick of them sometimes, it's easy to do when you're around mostly females most of the time. But if I had to be stuck with people, these guys would be a pretty good bunch. I've met some awesome people at this school. We've really become a family. I hope our bond only continues to grow from the time we have left at Fox and after graduation.

Honey had her spay surgery a few weeks ago. I was so anxious all day and checked on her every free second I had, along with her new mommy, Tammy. We were there when she got her IM shot and started to feel woozy as she sat in Chris's lap. Her actual surgery was done while I was in class, but I heard all about it. It went well, aside from the fact that they lost her(!) for a while, but she pulled through. I checked on her when she was still asleep afterwards in a cage. I was told she was growling in her sleep, so I didn't get too close in case she woke up and bit me because of the anesthetic effects. A few days later, she had somehow ripped her stitches out. It must have been from her jumping around too much in her cage because she had an E-collar on. So, she had to go back into surgery. This happened another time, and they finally decided to use different sutures. She was also placed in a smaller cage, so she couldn't move around as much. Poor thing. Another morning...

I am now halfway done with school! I'm still constantly stressed out and sleep deprived, but knowing I've made it this far is a pretty good feeling. As I said before, I'm a kennel leader now. I shared my first day with Kyal, and things went pretty smoothly (aside from me being extremely tired.) I had my first day on my own this Monday with the newbies and it went really well! It wasn't my normal group because I was covering for someone, but I was so glad nothing crazy happened. That being said, one of the black scrubs (we identify each cohort by which color scrubs they wear and the black scrubs are right below us greenies) mentioned that their normal leader wasn't going to return from her trip until 6 am the next day. Knowing that there was no way she'd make it to kennels on time, I decided the right thing to do was to tell the kennel manager. Sure enough, the girl didn't show up the next day and made up an excuse. But now, my friend Gina is their leader, ...