Friday, March 15, 2002 :::
 
First day of Clinicals. Best day of my life. We got into the Small Animal Clinic of the University of Illinois at about 8:30am. We found our way to the main office where we got our schedule for the next 12 weeks. One of the secretaries showed me the way to the anesthesiology, where my first clinicals were going to be. There my contact who was Lucy Remillard, showed me around a little, and explaining to me the plans of the day. At about 10:00am things started happening. The case that I was fallowing was of a 7 year old cat, Molly. She had a tumor on her lip and was going in for a surgery. They were going to cut the tumor out and then saw the lips together, so that now Molly’s nose is a little bit to the side. While they were doing the surgery Jodi, the student that I was with, was showing me how to work the machines which were checking the vital signs of the cat. Molly had a little problem breathing, her breaths were to fast and not deep enough, but that wasn’t a big problem. Jodi would give her a breath every ones in a while just to make sure that all of the gas build up in her blood will be washed away. This surgery lasted for about 4h. When all of that was done, we came back to the anesthesiology room where I joined my Lucy again. At that point there were preparations for an other cat, which was suppose to get neutered, declawed, and the infection that had a build up of liquid in his ear removed. I met a lot of interesting students, that explained to me all kinds of surgeries that there are as well as everything that I need to know when I start college. I really loved this day. I knew that i loved this profession but now, today in particularly i can't wait to start, i can't wait to be a vet…I can’t wait till next Wednesday.

::: posted by Una at 7:24 PM