The Saturday before last it was that much awaited time again- Castration Wet Lab!
The SCAAEP (student chapter of the American Association of Equine Practitioners) held their annual Fall castration wetlab- a great opportunity for hands-on experience for its members. The set-up is that People from the surrounding area are recruited to bring in foals (and one guy brings in donkeys) to be castrated by the student. Usually a group of one VM1 (restrain, PE), VM2 (drugs, catheterization), VM3 (castration) work with each animal. There was a new system this year that allowed constant physician supervision with every step of the process, which was great (aside from it taking a whole... lot longer). It really is a wonderful, and very popular wet lab but I don't have much more to say about it than that. If any of you have further questions- just shoot me a comment and I'd be happy to answer them. Otherwise it's all pretty straight-forward what happens - crush 'em and cut 'em ;)
In other news:
The last two weeks have been a doozy! Round 2 of exams for us VM2s. We had an exam on Wednesday, an exam Friday, and exam Monday, 2 Exams Thursday and one more this upcoming Monday. YIKES! The following week it starts back up all over again... we had 2 weeks off since the first round, we don't even get a full week this time. It gets pretty brutal- but that pretty much applies to all of vet school. Brutal.
You know you're a vet student when you lose track of the days, forget the last time you showered, haven't eaten a proper meal in the last week and are running on caffeine and the occasional "nap". You also get really excited about having time to run errands and clean! Errands have never been so much fun!
That being said, I took last night off to, yes- run errands, and have a nice sit down/eating out dinner of sushi (an appropriate meal after a week of Microbiology and Parasitology exams) and finish up my Halloween costume while watching some scary movies. Vet school party is tonight- and vet students know how to party! "Work hard-Party hard"-- the unofficial slogan of vet school. I'm not the "party hard" type, but that won't stop me from going out all costumed and have a good time!
On a side note- eating out with veterinary students is always fun. We listed every microbe & parasite that could possibly be in the components of our sushi rolls (even the rice & cucumber weren't safe from our scrutiny!), and compared things to Pathologic lesions. Too bad we didn't have any non-veteriny friends along to be completely grossed out by our conversation.
Back to the grind this weekend.
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