Friday, October 07, 2005

 

Halfway through!

Yes, we're almost halfway through the semester, and the first half of the class is also halfway through Junior Surgery lab.

Of the five exams we've taken so far, we've only received results from two, so I'm not qute sure how the sesmester is going perfomance-wise. Surgery has been going well for our team so far, althogh I'm pretty disappointed that neither of the dogs we worked on were adopted.

I got to spay the puppy we had this week--she was a 13-lb coon-hound mix, black and smooth with velvetey floppy ears and brown on her eyebrows, nose, chin and paws. Very sweet and playful, I hope she gets adopted from the shelter soon. . .

I was so proud of myself after surgery--I had completed the procedure through a nice little 3.5 cm incision, and then when we were all done, we had to have a resident double-check everything inside. Of course, we got Dr. B, who has BIG hands.

"How can you see anything through this keyhole incision?" he asked as he opened the dog up another two centimeters so he could stick his thick, shaved-ape fingers in. My cute tiny incision that I was so proud of was now made HUGE on this tiny little puppy.

Lesson? I've always hated being short and "small," but now I realize that having small hands can be a good thing.

"They're called fingers, but, yet, they don't fing. Noodle that one for a while."

--Franklin Sherman, The Critic

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