Class of 2020... how you doin?

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WildZoo said:
At our welcome event they made a point to tell all the family members and friends who were there to ask us if we wanted to talk about school before talking about it. WHich I loved. Usually I don't care but my (future) MIL takes it very seriously and asks me if she's allowed to ask about school every time :laugh:
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Omg that's the cutest thing ever :arghh:
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WildZoo said:
At our welcome event they made a point to tell all the family members and friends who were there to ask us if we wanted to talk about school before talking about it. Which I loved. Usually I don't care but my (future) MIL takes it very seriously and asks me if she's allowed to ask about school every time :laugh:
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I need that for my family. Soooo badly.
 
Only the third day back from spring break. I was hoping that I'd come back refreshed and ready to tackle vet school head-on for the last half of the semester, but I'm already exasperated and feeling completely done with everything again.

Seven more weeks... just seven more weeks...
 
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KSU friends... You're about to get the most amazing professor in the world :bigtears:
 
Made it back to Colorado, my aunt is a sweetheart and drove me back so I didn't have to sit, although I insisted on driving an hour to give her a break. I've missed this entire week of class as every single day has been appointment after appointment since discharge. I met with Physical Medicine and Rehab at the University of Utah, wound care, etc, etc. Just spent the entire morning with home health nurses who are going to come every morning to manage this thing. Tomorrow I have an MRI to rule out osteomyelitis because it's very common with these gnarly ischial wounds in paraplegics. This thing is almost 2 inches deep, undermining in multiple directions, and equally as wide; it's well into muscle and just about at bone but it still rated a stage 3 because bone isn't visible.

I'm going to try and get through the next 7 weeks and somehow salvage this semester, although I have no idea come Monday how I'll manage everything. I have to meet with doctors at Craig Hospital in Denver which is a major Spinal Cord Injury center in the US, but it looks like I will need a myocutaneous flap surgery. So once summer starts, that will be another major operation and will put me in a special Clinitron bed flat on my back for 8-10 weeks with pretty much no ability to do anything, then rehabilitation which will hopefully make me strong enough to start second year.

Life is a wild ****ing ride. I miss my classmates.
 
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*Takes GI phys exam*

*Thinks "Hey, outside of that one essay question at the end about sheep with frothy bloat, which is a thing that was mentioned on literally one slide of hundreds (if not over a thousand) of material covered and apparently exists, I feel like I actually did okay on that... and my grade in this class right now is pretty darn spectacular compared to last semester!"*

*One week later, checks grade on exam and sees a score of 42/90*

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SandstormDVM said:
Takes GI phys exam
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Uggh, that sucks. I have to take a test in the same topic this Friday.
Keep pushing through Sandy, don't let this get you down. Only a few more weeks and we'll all have completed our 1st year.
 
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Teepster87 said:
Uggh, that sucks. I have to take a test in the same topic this Friday.
Keep pushing through Sandy, don't let this get you down. Only a few more weeks and we'll all have completed our 1st year.
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Apparently it's GI phys month; I have an exam on that today and one a week from Friday.
 
Just registered for electives for fall semester second year. SECOND YEAR!!! :eek:
 
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Today I was pretty discouraged after finding out that I didn't do that great on our last anatomy exam.

Then, I went to one of my electives that is in a subject I'm passionate about, and the lecture was so fantastic it pretty much inspired my face off.

Grateful for the pick me up and reminder of why I went to vet school.
 
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Cephal0pod said:
Today I was pretty discouraged after finding out that I didn't do that great on our last anatomy exam.

Then, I went to one of my electives that is in a subject I'm passionate about, and the lecture was so fantastic it pretty much inspired my face off.

Grateful for the pick me up and reminder of why I went to vet school.
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what elective was it?
 
I was totally going to do a rant about this earlier. My class randomly voted today to move or quiz (that we've known about for three weeks) from tomorrow morning to Friday morning. Some of my friends and I have prior commitments at that time and wouldn't be able to rearrange. But our course coordinator was awesome and said we could take it when we're supposed to originally. Love this professor!!
 
SandstormDVM said:
*Takes GI phys exam*

*Thinks "Hey, outside of that one essay question at the end about sheep with frothy bloat, which is a thing that was mentioned on literally one slide of hundreds (if not over a thousand) of material covered and apparently exists, I feel like I actually did okay on that... and my grade in this class right now is pretty darn spectacular compared to last semester!"*

*One week later, checks grade on exam and sees a score of 42/90*

:grumpy:
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Was it OPP?

I would remember that, but mostly because I'm a perv and it comes with a pervy song associated with it...
 
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Our Neuro lectures just got intense.

:confused::arghh:o_O Eeeeeee.......
 
SandstormDVM said:
I was going to say... I have no idea what OPP is. Hahaha. :)

Large animal anatomy exam #3 today. I've been studying like crazy for two weeks; I have to do better on this one or I am in trouble. But I'm trying to stay confident.
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Well, by my calculations with the answer sheet, I did do better this time, despite this particular test historically being the one with the lowest average score. A lot depends on how he's going to handle some of my close-but-not-quite-exact lab practical answers (eg. "That stick was going through the pulmonary valve but you wanted pulmonary trunk?", putting down deep vaginal ring vs. just vaginal ring, and aging a horse as being 3.5-4 years old when it was apparently actually 4-4.5) and if I end up with any partial credit for those. I'm predicting anywhere from C+ to B, which I know isn't very good but after pulling a D- on both of the previous exams... yeah, I'm pretty satisfied with any sort of improvement at this point.

Cannot wait to be finished with anatomy for good.
 
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LyraGardenia said:
I find it odd that neuro isn't a required class here, but I'm happy it's not. Also because it's on Friday afternoons.
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Wait, neuro isn't a required class at KSU?

That's... weird. But, hey, all the better for you because it's not exactly the most enjoyable subject in the world. :p
 
SandstormDVM said:
Wait, neuro isn't a required class at KSU?

That's... weird. But, hey, all the better for you because it's not exactly the most enjoyable subject in the world. :p
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Nope! We went over cranial nerves, important structures of the brain, and basic nervous system stuff in gross and microanatomy last semester, but we didn't go super in depth. There's a neuroscience elective this semester that apparently isn't too terrible because there are take home tests, but I hated the nervous system portions of anatomy and Friday afternoons are my naptime, so I decided to skip that one. :p
 
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LyraGardenia said:
Nope! We went over cranial nerves, important structures of the brain, and basic nervous system stuff in gross and microanatomy last semester, but we didn't go super in depth. There's a neuroscience elective this semester that apparently isn't too terrible because there are take home tests, but I hated the nervous system portions of anatomy and Friday afternoons are my naptime, so I decided to skip that one. :p
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Do you have a neuro portion of physiology?

We had basic neuro stuff last semester, advanced neurophys at the end of this semester, and then a separate neuro class next year
 
WildZoo said:
Do you have a neuro portion of physiology?

We had basic neuro stuff last semester, advanced neurophys at the end of this semester, and then a separate neuro class next year
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Yeah, we went over all the action potentials and channels and stuff in physiology last semester.
 
nyanko said:
you're going to see neuro cases in GP......
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"It's either pain or neuro. Here, try these pain meds and if it doesnt get better, call the neurologist. The end."



JK. I actually kind of like neuro except for the feeling of helplessness from lack of appropriate diagnostic equipment.
 
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nyanko said:
you're going to see neuro cases in GP......
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Speaking of neuro cases, saw a dog a month ago that I'm 90% sure has a brain tumor.... owner can't afford MRI so did pred and methocarbamol... Dog was doing better, medications ran out, doing significantly worse, owner is convinced dog is being poisoned. Nope, when I lift your dog's head up and all of its symptoms worsen in front of me there is some bad ish going on.
 
SandstormDVM said:
It's interesting to see how every school does things differently.

At ISU, we have some basic neuro in both semesters of first year anatomy, some in first year histophys, and then an entire class on neuro second semester of first year. Seems like we get more than some other schools... and earlier?
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CSU is somewhat similar to this as well
 
DVMDream said:
Speaking of neuro cases, saw a dog a month ago that I'm 90% sure has a brain tumor.... owner can't afford MRI so did pred and methocarbamol... Dog was doing better, medications ran out, doing significantly worse, owner is convinced dog is being poisoned. Nope, when I lift your dog's head up and all of its symptoms worsen in front of me there is some bad ish going on.
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Pred can be really helpful in those cases if there's a lot of edema. Like, complete turnaround for weeks/even months sometimes helpful.
 
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nyanko said:
Pred can be really helpful in those cases if there's a lot of edema. Like, complete turnaround for weeks/even months sometimes helpful.
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Yeah but I think this time it is too late, dog's tongue is flaccid and swallowing capability is questionable. We'll see. But owner is in denial and insist it has to be poison or the weeds outside
 
nyanko said:
you're going to see neuro cases in GP......
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I mean, if they didn't cover what we need to know for clinics/NAVLE/general practice in other classes I feel like they would make neuro a required course. :shrug: And yeah, anything really complicated I would refer to a specialist. Like I said, we covered the basics of neuro in anatomy and physiology last semester, and maybe there will be more in other classes second and third year. Regardless, neuro is just a first year elective so it's too late to take it now.
 
Neurology was one of the more interesting things of vet school, for me. But I'm a crazy person who likes radiology and internal medicine as well.

Just keep in mind, that for any of the specialties, as a GP, you see the cases first and not everyone will take up your offer for referral. Some people, I'd say a majority where I live, can't afford it. I can usually get most people to go to the ophthalmologist simply by giving them a cost comparison between their exam which includes testing and our exam + testing not having a significant difference, but the other specialities are more difficult to convince people on with neurology unfortunately being the most difficult.
 
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I find neuro really interesting and love the class, I think probably because my spinal cord is trashed and it's applicable to me too.

I was emailed by a Dr at the teaching hospital to see if I would meet with a 3rd grader his wife teaches who has spina bifida. I'm meeting him today during his lunch hour to be a resource and a friend to show him he can still kick ass in a chair. Going to bring him a CSU t-shirt and a pilot keychain, pretty excited actually.
 
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It makes me sad when classmates have get togethers doing various activities and I'm not invited... stupid, I know, but I wish I could be good friends with everyone and be included in fun stuff :(
 
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hazelmoo said:
It makes me sad when classmates have get togethers doing various activities and I'm not invited... stupid, I know, but I wish I could be good friends with everyone and be included in fun stuff :(
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I know the feeling. I have certain friends that I hang out with at activities with the entire class, and I've invited them to do things a couple times, but they never invite me to do anything. :( I do have a couple good friends in my class, but would like to be close with more people.
 
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hazelmoo said:
It makes me sad when classmates have get togethers doing various activities and I'm not invited... stupid, I know, but I wish I could be good friends with everyone and be included in fun stuff :(
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I know this feel :( And then they say "oh you should have come!" Well I didn't even know about it until i saw it on instagram, so...
 
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hazelmoo said:
It makes me sad when classmates have get togethers doing various activities and I'm not invited... stupid, I know, but I wish I could be good friends with everyone and be included in fun stuff :(
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How many people are in your class? Ours has get togethers all the time, but since there's so many of us, I could maybe name 25%.

Honestly, I would pick some random people from your class composite and say, "Hey, let's go to the dog park!" And see how that goes!!

Trilt said:
could've been getting cultured watching GoT with us on rabbit, sheesh.
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I definitely didn't answer this. Lol.

Love me some GoT!! :love:
 
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batsenecal said:
How many people are in your class? Ours has get togethers all the time, but since there's so many of us, I could maybe name 25%.

Honestly, I would pick some random people from your class composite and say, "Hey, let's go to the dog park!" And see how that goes!!



I definitely didn't answer this. Lol.

Love me some GoT!! :love:
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There's 106! I do have a few amazing friends at school and I'm so glad for them, but there are some cliques and it's hard to be integrated when they already have their own people. I'll try though ❤
 
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