Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it? Well in a way it kinda is. I'm not sure how many other people will find this as interesting as I did but I just have to tell everyone.
If you don't like snakes you can stop reading now. I happen to love snakes but that's in part to the fact that my office sees 75% cats/dogs and 25% just about everything else.
Last Friday (on my day off of course) a guy brought in his pet Green - a green tree python. She's about 4 feet long and weighs 5 pounds. She's beautiful. If I can get the pictures from my doctor I will post them. Anyways she came in for not eating and strange behavior. Not very uncommon considering most people don't really know how to duplicate a rain forest for a snake in their own homes. We did an exam and come to find out we felt items in her abdomen. We took x-rays and found she had 7 eggs in her belly (she's never been bred)!
You see snakes just like humans can produce eggs all the time but do not actually have babies unless the eggs are fertilized. I'm most cases though the eggs do not even grow to be full size. Green is what we call "egg-bound" meaning for some reason she can't lay the eggs and they get trapped. And the only way to remove them is through surgery. So that's what I got to assist in on today - a snake spay!
Ok so I realize I sound really excited and you are probably sitting there thinking she's really weird but come on part of you is thinking "kinda neat"
I promise not to relay dozens and dozens of "work" stories but I thought that was kinda cool.
On a more appealing note - Lizzy's daycare took pictures back around the beginning of Sept and we got them back yesterday. I'll try to have John either post a copy on the website or I'll post one here. I have copies for everyone I just need to either see you or get stamps.
Also I was wondering what everyone's plans were for Halloween?
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Sunday, September 24, 2006
This Weekend
So I spent all weekend at the SWVS (Southwest Veterinary Symposium). Ok so it's exactly like it sounds. Lots of vets, techs, and students getting together to here lectures by other vets, techs, and students. Throw in the obligatory exhibit hall with 200 random vet medical equipment and suppliers and you have the SWVS. I had great fun and learned alot but there were a few things I would change for the next time I go. A backpack for one. They give you a bag to cart stuff around in but if you've ever been to a show at an exhibit hall you know that you get about 15 times the amount of stuff than you can carry and then have to truck it all up a parking garage or random pot-hole filled parking lot. And of course the book with all the information about all the lectures called "The Proceedings" weighs an additinal 20 pounds. The other thing is that I was up at 6:00 am both Friday and Saturday so I could drag my ass all of the way out to Ft. Worth (next year it's in Dallas!).
Regardless of all that I would go again in a heartbeat. I got to meet sooooo many interesting people and I learned a ton although I only had time to attend 4 lectures (they were each 4 hours long.) And I also had the opportunity to meet with professors from Texas A&M and Cedar Valley Vet Tech Distance Education. And after thinking long and hard this Sunday while my sore muscles took a break I've decided to hold off on Vet School and look into the Distance Learning certification from Cedar Valley.
It works like this. You talk to the doctors at the place you work at and one of them agrees to essentially be your mentor and preceptor while you attend classes online and through the clinic. I never even have to set foot in a classroom until my Level 4 classes which will be in 3 years. And in the end I take a State Exam and become a Registered Veterninary Technician. And the best part - my work pays for it all!!! And that way I can wait a few years on vet school since I really can't afford not to work right now and I don't have all that much time for classes. Enrollment begins in November and I already have my paperwork filled out! I'm sooo excited!
So everyone wish me luck
Regardless of all that I would go again in a heartbeat. I got to meet sooooo many interesting people and I learned a ton although I only had time to attend 4 lectures (they were each 4 hours long.) And I also had the opportunity to meet with professors from Texas A&M and Cedar Valley Vet Tech Distance Education. And after thinking long and hard this Sunday while my sore muscles took a break I've decided to hold off on Vet School and look into the Distance Learning certification from Cedar Valley.
It works like this. You talk to the doctors at the place you work at and one of them agrees to essentially be your mentor and preceptor while you attend classes online and through the clinic. I never even have to set foot in a classroom until my Level 4 classes which will be in 3 years. And in the end I take a State Exam and become a Registered Veterninary Technician. And the best part - my work pays for it all!!! And that way I can wait a few years on vet school since I really can't afford not to work right now and I don't have all that much time for classes. Enrollment begins in November and I already have my paperwork filled out! I'm sooo excited!
So everyone wish me luck
The Beginning
So it's happened. I broke. I folded. I gave in.... :(
OK so not too concerned over that but I've been trying to be really good about visiting everyones blogs and keeping up with everyones life and so far I've been able to really sit down and read everything about once a week. So I started thinking....if I can sit down and read everyone else's blog once a week how about if I take another 5 minutes and work on one of my own. So this is it's trial run. Don't expect too much yet as I'm just learning and right now I'm at the bottom of the curve but we'll see. I am also not making any promises as to how often I will post but I will try to keep it up-to-date.
OK so not too concerned over that but I've been trying to be really good about visiting everyones blogs and keeping up with everyones life and so far I've been able to really sit down and read everything about once a week. So I started thinking....if I can sit down and read everyone else's blog once a week how about if I take another 5 minutes and work on one of my own. So this is it's trial run. Don't expect too much yet as I'm just learning and right now I'm at the bottom of the curve but we'll see. I am also not making any promises as to how often I will post but I will try to keep it up-to-date.
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