It got into the 40's today and it was wonderful! Going outside without the wind hurting your face is a lovely feeling.
My Avian presentation seemed to go fine today. All the groups' presentation went way over the time he said we should take up but the group right before mine was ridiculous. I swear, they took up at least three times their allotted time. Ah, well. I made some people laugh with the weird bird thoughts I was saying aloud (we were supposed to pretend we were the birds we were presenting on...it was odd but amusing) so yay for that.
Orthopedics lab went OK. We didn't get our first 2 pins perfectly aligned so Sarah and I were having a hard time getting the middle two to go where they were supposed to and thought we screwed everything up. We had Dr. C come over so we could tell him we didn't think we could go further but then he did some Ortho Surgeony things that were mysterious to us and ta-dah! It worked! Huzzah! I honestly have no idea how you go about putting pins and screws in a live animal. This may be TMI so be warned, but with these cadaver legs, the drill bits and pins kept winding up the soft tissue surrounding our incisions and...it was kind of gross and looked like it would have caused painful problems. I imagine they work out if you know what you're doing. These are somewhat advanced surgeries and Dr. C just wants us to have a vague understanding of how to do them. I honestly hope to refer cases to boarded surgeons so I don't have to do orthopedic surgeries of any kind because they all terrifying me a bit. Maybe I'd feel better if I had more surgery experience but, thus far, I don't have a lot and it all kind of still frightens me. I'll learn.
Our Dermatology professor was very sweet today. She knows we're all anxious about clinical rotations and was saying, in her adorable Brazilian accent (she is also quite short. She's adorable and I love her. If I ever need a "school mommy," she's who I'm going to) that we've been feeling like we've been cramming information into our heads and it falls out, so we feel like we know nothing. We know more than we think we do, but we really start to learn how to be vets on rotations and that we would love it. It's comforting, because the other day dentistry professor was quizzing us and freaking us out by emphasizing what we didn't know and made it really stressful. I know some clinicians will want us to know more than we do and will be very demanding, but they want us to learn and the vast majority know we're confused, little, baby vets who need some hand holding.
Less than two months...so scary and exciting!
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