Update

Just reread the schedule....
On Tuesday night.....we karaoke.......

I will keep you updated but so far there is no mention of alcohol, so we'll see how the karaoke goes!

My life is just packing and unpacking!

So far so good on the vet school front...
I mean I haven't done anything vet school related, or had a class, or even met a significant amount of my class, but still!

Got myself all moved in and my room looks pretty sweet if I do say so myself, and I do :-)  Addie as settled in just fine although she only takes short adventures downstairs when Dynia the dog is nowhere in sight. I am, almost,  completely unpacked which is great because today my roommate M and I go to VET. That's the big get to know each other partay at the Lake of the Ozarks! 120...no wait, one person isn't coming so 119 people....a high and low ropes course, ice breakers, speed networking at the very least we will know our classmates well by the end of it :-)

Well off to check my packing skills for the third time, fit it all in my backpack but I feel like I may have forgotten something. I hope I am not the lowest maintainance person there. Watch, everyone else brought full carry one or something.

I'll blog from my phone if I get a chance!
See ya!

So pretty much packing is my life!

Pretty much since my parents decided where/when we were going for our vacation (Florida! and on Sunday!) Mike and I have been dealing wth the logistics of my vacation/ moving me out of the apartment/ moving my cat/ moving all his stuff to his new apartment. Sound like fun? But wait! There's more!

The Saturday before I leave for Florida is our friend's wedding! Which means Mike's brother and our other friend are staying in our apartment....which is a bit of a cluster right now...

But wonder of all wonders I think it's working out! I have most of my stuff packed (I didn't bring all that much thank goodness), We have started packing/cleaning/purging the useless crap in the apartment and my wonderful parents decided I could fly to KC and then fly back here thus avoiding the 9 hr drive the day after the wedding followed by a 15 hr drive. Fantastic!

So it was my last day at Agri-Pet on Thursday which was so sad just because I love everyone there and they have been a HUGE part of my undergrad experience. Figure since the Fall of my 2nd year I have been working at least 12 hrs a week but usually a lot more. It was so weird trying to thank people and say goodbye. How do you thank people enough for giving you the experience you needed to get into vet school? For teaching a million things you didn't know how to do? Just to name a few things:
-Give pills to a cat
-Draw blood (okay still not great at it but I've done it!)
- Clean surgery packs
-Assist with surgery
- Get a puppy breathing after a c-section
- Trim nails
- Give fluids

And tons of other things that are now second nature. AND I got paid too? Really how does one get that lucky? Luckily I will be coming back to visit Mike and can stop by to visit!

Everything is coming up daisies ( I prefer them to roses :-)

Tonight the boys get here and we have chicken enchiladas from a fantastic recipe my former boss gave me!
Then tomorrow night a wedding between two people who are wonderful and seeing all of our friends at the big reception!
Getting up super early Sunday morning to drive to the airport for my super short flight to KC then getting started on the drive to FLORIDA!!!
A week on the beach/in the pool chilling with the family :-)
Two days packing my room in my parents house/playing with the dogs
Short flight back on Tuesday.
Help Mike get his new apartment set up
Put my stuff in my car on Friday (or Thurs, not sure yet) and drive with miss Addison to KC!
Go move my stuff in and get unpacked on Sat!
Spend a week at home running errands
Go back to my house in Columbia to live for the year then go to the Ozarks for our VET (it's a vet student retreat in the Ozarks!)

Bring it on :-)

Bulldogs, Buddy, and Bree!

So a few days ago I got to help with my first C Section!

It was on a bulldog because bulldogs almost always give birth by Cesarean section because they cannot give birth normally. I think if you can't be born naturally then maybe you weren't supposed to exist. Bulldogs can't breathe, have horrible skin, get fungus in their wrinkles, can't give birth, general badness, and I really don't think there should be more of them. I think this in theory course.

Now in actuality, I think this little bulldog has a fantastic personality and the 8 (can you believe it? 8!) little pups that she gave birth to were precious. And since there were 8 of them, it was all hands on deck for the puppy shaking. Yes you heard me right. In order to get the fluid out of their little noses, we rubbed them hard with towels and - with their heads facing away from our bodies - lifted them up a little ways and then down towards the ground. This uses gravity to get the fluid out. But it really really looks like you are trying to shake a baby.

There is nothing quite like waiting for a little pup to take a breath and once it starts breathing? You feel so proud that you got that started! And she was such a good momma! She was falling asleep sitting up but she never stepped on a puppy or kept them from nursing. Imagine waking up from surgery to 8 puppies. Ack!

That's her falling asleep with the hungry little monsters!

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In addition to the births, we have had a lot of dogs coming in late in the evening with possible heat stroke. One of them, a dog we'll call Buddy, could barely move his back legs. So you run the cold water over them, in the case of a really over heated dog you even put ice packs on them, and then just give them fluids and support. The reason Buddy was special is because he couldn't move his back legs and there was nothing wrong with him that we could find. But with 3 days of feeding him canned food and cleaning up after him every time he peed GALLONS in his kennel, and being available when he needed his temp taken because he growled at other people and liked me, he was starting to move a little better and got to go home. What sucks is that while I babied him all day long and got kisses and happy tail wags for my trouble, there is no way of knowing how well his owners will keep up. So you send them off with what support you can, and hope that they keep up and he gets going again!

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In news with me, I am going to FLORIDA!!! With the family and what is even better is instead of going
Sat - Wedding
Sun - Drive 9 hrs to KC
Mon - drive 15 hrs to Florida

Now I get to fly to KC and then fly back and help Mike set up his apartment! This is gonna work out perfectly because I get family time and time to pack up my room at home and then I get to hang out with Mike and Harv for a few days before Addie and I trek the 9 hrs to KC. Oh and my girls Kira (our golden) and Ivy (our Bernese puppy) are gonna be there too :-)

And Mike and I got to play with a kitten I'm helping a co-worker socialize. Nothing is quite as nice and a kitten snuggling up to you with her little purring motor going full speed :-)
Not too shabby :-)

Have Tablet, Will Post

I am so very very very ready to start vet school stuff.....or at least move...or do any of the other exciting things that are coming up!
But I also don't want the summer to be over, so I'm obviously hard to please.
Things done for vet school:
- Read "How to Study in Med School" book they sent all of the class of 2015....okay read it twice
- Sent in all the info they needed for our VET retreat (time for all of us to get to know each other at Lake of the Ozarks while being fed and housed and entertained with things like zip lines and water sports for free!)
- Figured out when I'm moving - Aug 6th
- Thought and read about vet school, animals, and vets allll summer
- Made as much money as possible to supplement my negative money
- Prepared cat verbally for 9 hr drive and resigned myself to 9 hrs of Addie bitching about having to be in a car
- Bought badass android tablet for notetaking, am downloading fun apps until summer is over and it has to become a working tablet :-(

I am really going to miss Oxford though. I wasn't sad when I graduated, I think because I wasn't leaving but now that I am, I'm really nostalgic about my favorite places and foods and hikes. Oh and I'm leaving Mike and Harvey which is also really sad. Luckily I'll have no time to miss them in vet school. And one of my three new roomies has a dog who is very much like Harvey, so I can get my dog fix.
Now I'm off to watch some Netflix before bed. Two more weeks of work at Agri-pet! And of course now that I'm leaving Dr. k decides to do surgery on and try to rehab a barred owl! At least I got to watch the surgery!

Revamping the blog

So I am gonna keep using this blog in vet school.

Figure this will be a good way to keep everyone in loop as far as my life goes and hopefully vet school will be interesting enough that I have a lot to write about :-)