Wits Friday night was amazing! Keegan-Michael Key is probably one of the most charismatic, brilliant people I’ve had the pleasure of watching and he performed some of the best improv I have ever seen in my life. If you ever get the chance to see him live, do it! You won’t regret it. Bhi Bhiman, the musician guest, was wonderful! Great music, a wonderful voice, and a sense of humor! I can’t wait until the podcast comes out. They did a segment where the host, John Moe, tasked the two guests to make up songs with titles and a genre given to them and he’d tell them if it would be a hit of a flop. It was glorious! Bhiman did the music and Key came up with the most amazing, clever lyrics. So good! I can’t wait for the next shows in the spring!!!
Today was my last day at the Raptor Center! I’m relieved and a little sad. I feel like I learned a lot and I really had fun. It felt good to actually be doing medicine and having the doctors ask what I’d do for various cases. Yay for using my brain and dragging out information that I wasn’t sure I had in there! Sadly, one of our cases was doing extremely poorly today, despite our best efforts, so the decision was made to euthanize. Dr. I asked if I wanted to do it and I did. I feel like that’s maybe coming across as weird. Euthanasia is a part of my future job and I want to be good at it, so any animals I euthanize pass with as little stress and pain as possible. I haven’t euthanized any creatures since my internship at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center before vet school. It’s always hard but in this case, it was the absolutely right decision. It was especially weird, though, since it was a bald eagle. They are such protected, majestic, awe-inspiring animals so it felt…I don’t know, almost wrong, even though it was the best option as it was deteriorating despite our care. I don’t know how to put it, guys. There were a lot of feels!
On a happier note, our snowy owl was still alive and she is so beautiful. I had my picture taken while I was holding her on Friday (!!!! My first time restraining a full-sized owl!) and I would love to share it but I’m pretty sure I can’t because of patient confidentiality and whatnot. Just picture looking thrilled and holding Hedwig from Harry Potter :P
I am seriously looking forward to not getting up at 6:30 every day and not having 50-60 hour work weeks for a while. And Thanksgiving food! And my birthday on Friday! Yay things!
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