Thursday, September 29, 2005
Surgery went well. It was weird that I had no problem remembering the anatomy of the testicle, but couldn't remember the genus and species names for round worms and hookworms (our dog had them both!) As soon as someone said "
Toxocara canis" I said, "Yes! The one that looks like a chocolate pie!"
They probably thought I was on crack (thanks, PP, for explaining in class the reason for that price difference between crack and pure cocaine), but my outburst was a result of equating the appearance of the
Toxocara egg with that of a yummy chocolate pie. With me, it always comes down to food.
We showed up at 6 a.m. to examine our dog and set up, we had a last-minute orientation on anesthesiology (it was supposed to be the week before but there was a little SNAFU), and they let all fifty of us confused befuddled kids inject and hook up dogs with tubes and such, and let us cut them open.
It was fun.
I'd like to put up a picture of our first surgery dog, but we're not allowed. He's part Australian Shepherd, so this photo is close enough (except ours has more brown and less black, and has a bigger head):
