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After a nightmare bull**** mature dog spay last week where I had to call in the other doc to help me basically retie all my ****ing ligatures, she let me in on a similar surgery today since it's my day off. She can be intimidating but very helpful and I appreciated the effort. I feel so stunted in my surgical skills since old boss did so much of the surgery and I just never had chance to practice.
Now that I actually get surgery days (I wasn't before), I do feel my surgical skills and confidence is growing. I haven't done a mature dog spay in a while, but I don't even like small dog spays. I just don't like spays. So don't freak out about that surgery. I know a lot of people (and even surgeons) say that the most difficult surgery is a large, mature dog spay.
I did get me a Dowling spay retractor, finally. It was amazing the first time I used it, but the second time was on a mature German Shepherd and I encountered a LOT of bleeding (ended up being muscle as I was slightly off mid-line) but I had originally thought the retractor pulled through the ovarian pedicle, so I was basically ****ting myself and my co-worker/boss had to come in and save me. I should probably try it again. Just another tool to think about if you are interested.