LSU Football

Tips To Help Vets Lose Their Minds

I attended my first LSU football game against Auburn this past weekend!  I enjoyed the hype of the crowd and the "rituals" of the students, but it just wasn't the same.  When the announcer would exclaim "first down!" my instinct was to reply back "Hokies!"  My heart was still in Blacksburg.  Luckily, they are in different conferences so I'm allowed to have two loves.

The learning: recheck hepatocellular carnicoma, chronic bronchitis, lymphoma, and something I don't remember at all learning about - heterobilharzia

It's been an exhausting week, so I'm going to keep this week's post short and sweet.

Wild Heart

Dear Miss Independent

"You have held your sh*t together through the strongest storms and the darkest of nights. No one doubts what you’re capable of, but sometimes you have to just lay it down and admit that you need more."

OK so I may have been excused of being too independent a time or two, but blame it on my wild heart.  I dance in my strength because I bathe in my freedom.  I'm a fiercely independent soul, believing strongly in the important of being whole on your own.  But still, I am a hopeless romantic, infatuated with mad, passionate love, and the ideal of two souls merging as one.  I love hard. These sides often battle, and they fight hard.  And they both refuse to back down.  I have no fear of commitment only confinement; I run my world and I choose to dance.

VT and LSU both won their football games this past weekend!

Several transfers on Sunday.  I'm not thrilled about working on Sunday.  I almost always end up missing the church services which is frustrating.  However, I did find a cute little coffee shop where I am currently sitting next to a water fountain with frozen lemonade in this beautiful 70s degree weather.

NAVLE (North American Veterinary Licensing Exam) date is set!  November 19th is the day!  Luckily I will be taking it at home so I can enjoy my vacation afterwards.

My patients this week:  2 chronic renal failures, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, diabetes mellitus, and a few rechecks.

If you ever hear a medical professional say he/she presented ADR....It simply means "Ain't Doin' Right"

Internal Medicine Rotation

Struggles Of Free Spirit Woman
I consider myself an independent free spirit, but I never really had the words to describe how I felt. I recently read a powerful article that found those words:
"I want freedom.  I want depth.  I want to live a intensely and authentically as I can.  Happiness won't cut it for me.  I want the whirling gusts of wind to whip around my hair, tasting my cheap cherry-lemon shampoo in my mouth as I run wild through sea-like fields of tall, blonde grass.  I want to feel the warm sun embrace me, growing hotter and hotter until I pour its sweaty kisses from my forehead.  I want to lay alone in the dirt, feeling the earth beneath me, leaves in my hair, crunchy pieces of mushy ground in my hands, getting under my nails.  I want to dance under the winking, twinkling stars, my body moving at dangerous speeds.  I want to drive fast as a falcon, blasting Lana del Rey and screaming to Dark Paradise.  I want to shriek, sob, and shout when I'm angry, sad, jealous, vulnerable, in pain.  I want to live fiercely, wildly, passionately, and as freely as possible.  I want to feverishly question everything, never satisfying my desperate thirst for knowledge.  I want to to be unapologetically me, cursing real filthy sometimes, but never, ever, editing myself to please you.  I want to listen to my feminine wisdom, my intuition, my gut; never taking lightly my opinion, needs or desires.  Happiness is not enough.  I want to smile and I want to taste that joy but it won't define me. Or drive me.  It's not enough.  I want freedom.  I want to feel everything.  I want the pain, the joy, the disappointment, the jealously, the hatred, the euphoria, the sadness, the grief and everything in between.  I want it all.  Oh, sweet freedom, link your arm in mine and let's frolic forever under magical moonlight in mysterious open fields.  Let's not settle for happiness.  It's not enough.  Happiness doesn't make my soul soar, my spirit ignite, my insides buzz with electricity.  I will scream and live and die for freedom.  I will never settle for happiness.  I want and need and desire and thirst for freedom.  Feel that delicious word on your tongue and taste it. Its soars.  Now, I soar - into the fiercest, fastest wings, feeling more alive than ever."

This past weekend I experienced some LSU tailgating, which of course just made me miss VT tailgating, and just made me feel like I was in undergrad again.  Luckily I didn't end up going to the game; it got rained out.

I actually had Labor day off!  I haven't had a US holiday off in 3 years; I almost didn't know what to do with myself....oh wait yes I did....study and watch VT football (although we did lose Ohio State).
In honor of the start of football season, you are currently hearing the best college football entrance song with a pretty fantastic background to this blog as well!

Shout out to my Rossies' still on the island since the started their next semester this week.

This week I started my internal medicine rotation.  I'm enjoying the wide variety of cases I've seen so far such as pancytopenia, IMHA, vestibular disease, intervertbral disc disease, and a ranula.  It's long hours and demanding, but the interns, residents, and clinicians have been helpful so far which makes it easy to feel comfortable around them.

Wildest Dreams

*Blog update!* Make sure your volume is on

Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams
"Say you'll remember me, Standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, babe...say you'll see me again even if it's just in your wildest dreams"
I adore the lyrics in this song because I believe everyone can relate and will have a different reason for singing this.  Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind, heals the heart and makes it whole. It's an escape that no matter who you are can relate to.  Music is such an explosive expression of humanity; it slips you into an intimacy which you cannot recover. That's exactly how I feel when listening to these poetic words.  

I didn't have any patients in the hospital this past weekend, so I was able to have a relaxing weekend and catch up on little things I've been wanting to do.
We had our cat neuters on Monday and presentations on Tuesday and Wednesday.  I've had several patients this week, but none of them went to surgery which in some cases was great for the animal, but for some it was a more poor prognosis.

Surgeries this week: Lateral suture stifle stabilization (video) and femoral fracture repair

Next week I will be onto Internal Medicine which is one of the most demanding rotations, so lots of sleep and preparation will be done this weekend!