Gosh I am so tired! We were given an early start time of
6am today, but silly me used my Grenada phone as an alarm clock and forgot that
it doesn’t recognize different time zones so it went off at 4:15 local time
instead of 5:15. Yay.
We had two hours of orientation and breakfast before
officially opening our doors to clients and pets this morning. We were split
into groups of three and each respective group went through procedures and
processing in further detail from yesterday. After that, we paired up and it
was time to begin!
I spent my day in receiving/discharge. My partner and I
took turns taking a history on our patient, educating our clients about various
health issues, vaccinating and deworming and then preparing our patients for
surgery. Some families came in with multiple pets and then we were in charge of
all of the animals from the same family. All in all a lot of fun. I really
enjoy interacting with clients and patients together.
It was a pretty long day with clean up beginning at 7:30p
and rounds ending at 9:15p, but we learned a lot and got to practice a lot of “doctorly
stuff” along the way! So far I am surviving my vegetarian diet. Turns out that’s
not nearly as tough as taking an ice cold North Dakota shower haha. I do mean
ice cold! If it was any colder the shower would be sleeting! I had to be very
creative about washing without really getting wet (I’m a huge wimp) and I am
certainly going to work harder in the coming days to take showers at “better”
times when perhaps the water will still be warm? Maybe I’ll just get up at 3am
instead!
Tomorrow is another 6am morning and this time I’ll be in
anesthesia. Very much looking forward to seeing the next step of patient
processing for the RAVS clinic!
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