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I'm just way too overwhelmed this season. In addition to the recent health problems I have had, I have a torn meniscus causing pain on the other knee and ulnar neuropathy. I'm worried I won't be able to return to my job as usual and that I will have permanent changes to my abilities (like surgical). In addition to everything else, I had my identity stolen yesterday. I'm waiting to hear back from work if I am able to go back on Monday following my appendectomy but they originally told me that they think I am disrupting their schedule too much. Which is harsh but true as I am about to go back out on medical leave to try and fix these other issues surgically.

I've been reading about appendicitis. Apparently it affects people in my age group more because the stresses are higher on us.

I'm going to stop rambling now.
 
It's not YOUR fault you had an emergency appy. I understand why they would be frustrated by all of it, but it's not something you could control.

And your identity stolen now, too?! Dear god woman, talk about a year from hell. I'm sorry.

The year's almost over?
 
I haven't really posted on here much...I mostly just lurk but after the past few I REALLY need to rant. I understand that volunteers donate their time and of course I appreciate that but if I am conducting a riding lesson for an autistic student and I ask you to leave him alone DO NOT fight me on it. And if I ask you specifically to NOT TOUCH HIM especially without warning...DO NOT ARGUE with me about it and say "he doesn't notice". You started volunteering a month ago, you have never worked with this student and don't have any knowledge about the disabilities. You have never seen him get upset. You are not qualified to tell me that he doesn't notice that you are touching his leg or his boot or that he is not getting stressed out from being bombarded with a million additional instructions from you. If I am choosing to be quiet...there might be a very good reason for it (which I have explained to you multiple times) and that is not an invitation for you to repeat my instructions 900 times. And then when the student finally loses his temper and you were lucky enough to not be the one on the receiving end of it DO NOT complain about the student right in front of his parents! Oh, and then don't come to me and tell me how lucky I am that my glasses didn't break and that the student shouldn't be allowed to ride anymore again...while his dad is standing next to me. Not helpful, appropriate, or necessary. And if during my break I decide to actually have some fun and ride one of the horses...don't make a scene begging and pleading with me to let you ride instead. And then when I cut my time short to let you ride after me don't complain about it. It isn't unfair that I chose to ride for all of 10 minutes before allowing you to ride and the horse is not difficult to control if you would listen to what I'm saying and actually ask him to do things properly! And asking your parents to come watch you volunteer in lessons and waving to them while leading the horse and then complaining to me that I am having a low key, "boring" lesson when I have a student who started out so shy she wouldn't even talk to someone without turning her back to them and then lost any confidence she actually had after a horse spooked a few weeks ago is absolutely NOT helpful nor is it appropriate. With in one day you have upset every single one of the students I taught and made it impossible for me to maintain a safe environment because you are completely unable to just listen to simple instructions. If I were in charge of the program you would not be coming back again.
 
I am relatively interested in going to this year's exotics symposium at UT... but I refuse to sign up before there's any freaking schedule of lectures posted, especially since the wetlabs filled pretty much immediately while I was originally waiting. The registration deadline they have posted is tomorrow, and there is still no schedule. I might just have an extra free weekend in January...
 
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Trilt said:
I am relatively interested in going to this year's exotics symposium at UT... but I refuse to sign up before there's any freaking schedule of lectures posted, especially since the wetlabs filled pretty much immediately while I was originally waiting. The registration deadline they have posted is tomorrow, and there is still no schedule. I might just have an extra free weekend in January...
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Not sure if you'd be interested if this one doesn't work out, but we're holding an exotics symposium in April as well. We're still working on getting lectures/wet labs finalized, but I'll be sure to let you guys know.

ETA: And I just realized that might come off as stepping on the toes of the UTK Symposium...totally not my intent.
 
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My older girl is getting worse after I thought she was healthy. I am really getting concerned. I hope it is just a dip in the recovery but she is back to hematochezia, lethargic and not eating. Really don't want to bring her back to the hospital for the 3rd time in 5 days as the stress is clearly not helping her (not looking for medical advice... just ranting).
 
StartingoverVet said:
My older girl is getting worse after I thought she was healthy. I am really getting concerned. I hope it is just a dip in the recovery but she is back to hematochezia, lethargic and not eating. Really don't want to bring her back to the hospital for the 3rd time in 5 days as the stress is clearly not helping her (not looking for medical advice... just ranting).
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I am sorry to hear this. I hope she is just having a minor set back and will be feeling better soon. :luck:
 
So I have less than a week until an interview with a vet school. This morning I awoke to find my front tooth chipped. I'm away from home and have no access to my regular dentist. I'm already planning on how to explain to the interview committee that I'm not a hobo. FML
 
Trilt said:
I am relatively interested in going to this year's exotics symposium at UT... but I refuse to sign up before there's any freaking schedule of lectures posted, especially since the wetlabs filled pretty much immediately while I was originally waiting. The registration deadline they have posted is tomorrow, and there is still no schedule. I might just have an extra free weekend in January...
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As a UTK student, I'm surprised we have not gotten that up. I'm sorry. 🙁
 
DoctorWho92 said:
So I have less than a week until an interview with a vet school. This morning I awoke to find my front tooth chipped. I'm away from home and have no access to my regular dentist. I'm already planning on how to explain to the interview committee that I'm not a hobo. FML
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I really doubt they'll care. Remember, these are possibly people who either still do, or used to do, painful procedures on large animals. Injuries, including chipped teeth, probably don't get a second glance. But then, I go to school in the Land of Hockey, where chipped and missing teeth are practically a badge of honour.
 
Jamr0ckin said:
As a UTK student, I'm surprised we have not gotten that up. I'm sorry. 🙁
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Haha it's okay... I got an email reminder/apology about it and whoever is in charge has redeemed themselves a little bit. ;P I had a great time at the last one, I just wish I knew what I was signing up for this year!
 
orca2011 said:
Not sure if you'd be interested if this one doesn't work out, but we're holding an exotics symposium in April as well. We're still working on getting lectures/wet labs finalized, but I'll be sure to let you guys know.

ETA: And I just realized that might come off as stepping on the toes of the UTK Symposium...totally not my intent.
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Late April? Or early? Depending on whether I get interesting selectives or not, I may be looking for a conference to go to in later April... earlier cuts into our finals, unfortunately.
 
Coquette22 said:
I really doubt they'll care. Remember, these are possibly people who either still do, or used to do, painful procedures on large animals. Injuries, including chipped teeth, probably don't get a second glance. But then, I go to school in the Land of Hockey, where chipped and missing teeth are practically a badge of honour.
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I am a hockey fan! I'm sure it won't matter but I was just like "c'mon!"
 
summerwind said:
I haven't really posted on here much...I mostly just lurk but after the past few I REALLY need to rant. I understand that volunteers donate their time and of course I appreciate that but if I am conducting a riding lesson for an autistic student and I ask you to leave him alone DO NOT fight me on it. And if I ask you specifically to NOT TOUCH HIM especially without warning...DO NOT ARGUE with me about it and say "he doesn't notice". You started volunteering a month ago, you have never worked with this student and don't have any knowledge about the disabilities. You have never seen him get upset. You are not qualified to tell me that he doesn't notice that you are touching his leg or his boot or that he is not getting stressed out from being bombarded with a million additional instructions from you. If I am choosing to be quiet...there might be a very good reason for it (which I have explained to you multiple times) and that is not an invitation for you to repeat my instructions 900 times. And then when the student finally loses his temper and you were lucky enough to not be the one on the receiving end of it DO NOT complain about the student right in front of his parents! Oh, and then don't come to me and tell me how lucky I am that my glasses didn't break and that the student shouldn't be allowed to ride anymore again...while his dad is standing next to me. Not helpful, appropriate, or necessary. And if during my break I decide to actually have some fun and ride one of the horses...don't make a scene begging and pleading with me to let you ride instead. And then when I cut my time short to let you ride after me don't complain about it. It isn't unfair that I chose to ride for all of 10 minutes before allowing you to ride and the horse is not difficult to control if you would listen to what I'm saying and actually ask him to do things properly! And asking your parents to come watch you volunteer in lessons and waving to them while leading the horse and then complaining to me that I am having a low key, "boring" lesson when I have a student who started out so shy she wouldn't even talk to someone without turning her back to them and then lost any confidence she actually had after a horse spooked a few weeks ago is absolutely NOT helpful nor is it appropriate. With in one day you have upset every single one of the students I taught and made it impossible for me to maintain a safe environment because you are completely unable to just listen to simple instructions. If I were in charge of the program you would not be coming back again.
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That girl's got to go. She clearly has no respect for children with autism and is clearly harming more than she is helping.
 
Lab Rat83 said:
That girl's got to go. She clearly has no respect for children with autism and is clearly harming more than she is helping.
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I completely agree...unfortunately its not my decision. 🙁 If it were my call I would have asked her to leave on the spot, she makes me so mad! Its way past the point of being annoying, its actually just dangerous. :banghead:
 
Coquette22 said:
Any board certified neurologists that want to pretend to be me from 9-11 AM AST tomorrow?
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I'm not a board certified neurologist (yet??? maybe eventually??) but I'll bet I could do you good on that test! (good luck!!)

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TERRIBLE REFS in the hockey game I played in this morning. Awful awful. Some girl dove at my knees and took me out and they were going to give ME a penalty for kicking her on my way getting back up which was totally-not-really-an-accident-but-she-deserved-it-dumb-ho.

AND they were letting the other team run our goalie. I asked one of them which girl on the other team he was sleeping with. For real. I rarely lose my cool at a ref since I know how it feels (I'm a ref too) but god damn these guys were the worst.
 
nyanko said:
I'm not a board certified neurologist (yet??? maybe eventually??) but I'll bet I could do you good on that test! (good luck!!)
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Thanks. It wasn't as bad as it might have been. Neuro frustrates me, because I want to be good at it, I like it, I just suck at it (as opposed to ophtho, where I suck at it, but it's okay, because I can't stand it.)
 
Anyone want to take my NAVLE for me tomorrow? Anyone? Pretty please? I will bake you things.
 
nyanko said:
I'm not a board certified neurologist (yet??? maybe eventually??) but I'll bet I could do you good on that test! (good luck!!)

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TERRIBLE REFS in the hockey game I played in this morning. Awful awful. Some girl dove at my knees and took me out and they were going to give ME a penalty for kicking her on my way getting back up which was totally-not-really-an-accident-but-she-deserved-it-dumb-ho.

AND they were letting the other team run our goalie. I asked one of them which girl on the other team he was sleeping with. For real. I rarely lose my cool at a ref since I know how it feels (I'm a ref too) but god damn these guys were the worst.
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I was literally going to tag you and say NYANKO SAVE ME :laugh:

Sucks about the refs. Nothing worth than a bad ref, especially when you're actually playing in the game.
 
My car wouldn't start this morning . CLEARLY finals is the best time for car trouble.
 
equineconstant said:
My car wouldn't start this morning . CLEARLY finals is the best time for car trouble.
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Haha, my gas light came on last night. Drove into town to study with friends, didn't get out until midnightish. Went to get gas.

Gas stations are not open on the island on midnights on Sundays. Drove home with my electronic reader telling me I had - - - (meaning less than 20 miles) I could go. Still another 10 miles home and 10 back in to town to the gas station. I was scared shtless this morning but I made it to the gas station before our neuro final - woo 😀
 
I hate visa applications.

Also I met the most miserable woman working at an embassy today.. Pretty unhelpful and she looked like she hated her life. Visa applications suck, but I guess it would suck more to be on the processing end!
 
Arg. I have lots of exams/quizzes this week and finals next week. I'm getting a cold. My cat is excessively licking his penis so we're making a trip over to the vet today to make sure he's not working on being blocked. He's still urinating normally so I'm hoping I'm just being paranoid, but he does have crusties on his prepuce so something is going on. I get totally freaked out when there's something wrong with my own pets.
 
I'm having issues with my foster dog. She has been improving SO much. I've managed to stop her focusing on the cats and get it to a bare minimum. We developed some mild leash reactivity and I've managed to get that resolved. But we've had two incidences in the past two days that have just left me in tears. I took her to my parents house and on the last day, my mom fed their dog and then went out of the room to get my foster dogs food and well they got at it over the food. No major wounds. Both had one canine mark. My mom feels awful of course. They were eating side by side, all week but I always put their bowls down together. I was upset at said incident but I feel it was human fault. One yell to leave it and they both separated.

Then today, I usually put her in a stall while I ride or I tie her down in the ring. I don't typically let her run free at the barn. Anyway it was pure chaos at the barn today more people than I've seen and more dogs and horses around then I've seen in the 3 years I've been here. Well she was being so good, staying on her place while people and horses and dogs ran around. Well I walked her down to the arena and she managed to slip her harness (how I DO NOT know) and she ran through the barn past all the other dogs people and horses. She REFUSED to come to me. Her recall has become pretty damn great but there was so much going on and her adrenaline was soooo high with everything going on. Well a new lady at the barn had her small dog tethered tight to the wall. She ignored everything else but pinned the small dog. So many people were there everything was split immediately. But she WOULD not come. We eventually caught her. She has never done anything like that before. I was soooo upset I was shaking.

Someone please assure me she isn't a bad dog. =(

She does fixate on things and trying to get her focusing on something else is difficult to say the least. Its like she just tunes out everything. Anyone have any experience with medication that would just take the adrenaline edge off? I've done so much training with her but once she is adrenalizing it all goes out the window.
 
My grandpa apparently collapsed from low blood pressure and went into the hospital for some tests sometime last night. Really hoping things will be okay, but I can't help but worry since he's 92.
 
wildcatj said:
Arg. I have lots of exams/quizzes this week and finals next week. I'm getting a cold. My cat is excessively licking his penis so we're making a trip over to the vet today to make sure he's not working on being blocked. He's still urinating normally so I'm hoping I'm just being paranoid, but he does have crusties on his prepuce so something is going on. I get totally freaked out when there's something wrong with my own pets.
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Never thought I would be happy for a UTI. Yay!
 
You know that feeling when you wake up and just know you're getting sick? You don't feel bad yet, just a little off, but you know exactly what's about to happen and curse the inevitable. That's today.
 
My account is really low and I still owe my landlord utilities for the semester plus will have to put some gas in the tank to get me to Maine at the end of next week for break. Tried to call the bank and ask about getting funds by writing myself a check, no answer. WTF, I know you're there and I don't want to use the gas just to drive in to town to ask you.

SO says he's going to have to go to court (or his case will) from the car accident he was in a while ago. They apparently don't want to compensate him for the injuries he had (back) and saw a doctor for.

Plus I need to send in a request for transcripts, write a letter of intent for a rotation, clean my filthy house AND study for finals. 🙁
 
orgo test today and then cumulative final next week 😢
 
I am INSANELY angry right now. I'm living in the UK and I was planning to move directly to Ireland at the end of January when my visa expires. I did my research, found a visa I'm eligible for, and got all my documents together to go to the Irish Embassy in DC while I was home for Thanksgiving last week. When I got there, the clerk told me (rather rudely, I might add) that I couldn't apply in the US because I live in England. I made it clear that I was a US citizen, and thought the website had said to apply there since I'm a permanent resident of DC, but she told me I had to go to London and do it.

So, believing her because, after all, she works at the damn embassy, I waited till I came back to London and went to the Embassy in London this morning. Guess what? Turns out I'm not allowed to apply here because I'm a US citizen, and that woman was full of crap in DC. I am ABSOLUTELY enraged, because I wasn't planning to fly back to the US again until next August, and now I have to shell out a ton of money and waste time sitting around waiting for my visa to get processed before I can move. Not to mention I have a crap ton of stuff with me in the UK that I wanted to move directly to Ireland, and I don't know what I'm going to do with it now because my lease is ending soon and I have to leave for home. So insanely stressed over this, which I don't need, and I haven't told my bf yet. How the hell could they have hired someone so incompetent!?! It's your damn JOB, you deal with these applications all the time!!!! Try to not suck so much. And learn some damn manners while you're at it, please.
 
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I love having satellite radio, but I loathe dealing with customer service...which I have to do often, it seems. I was on a promotional 6-month plan ($25 for 6 months) that ends today. I just switched back to monthly auto-renewal (because I was going to be charged $300+ tomorrow), and ended up with $0.21 on my account. Cool, fine, whatever. I try to pay it and the site keeps saying my card information is incorrect. Yet...looking at my bank account, I was literally just charged $1. Like...right as I was trying to pay the $0.21. So, CLEARLY, they have my correct information. Ugh. Called support and after 10 minutes of explaining what seems like a simple situation, the dude just clears the $0.21. The hell. I have a nasty feeling that I'm going to end up paying more than just the $9.99 tomorrow...
 
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Nothing like getting a notice in December from your health insurance company that your coverage was cancelled, effective Sept 30. Umm...Why wasn't I told? And why have you continued to cash checks from me each month?? Where has all my money gone??
 
update on the dog from the other day - she was adopted some time last week. yay for her, boo for me. i can't believe how difficult this process seems to be this time around. last year i stumbled upon Lucy and they just gave her to me. this year i have been flat out rejected by a group (won't even talk to me), then found another...who already had a home they just hadn't removed her (but they spent 10 minutes telling me how absolutely fabulous she is), then this dog seemed promising only to turn out to not be the same dog. its all very discouraging. i just want to find my next forever furry friend!
 
jmo1012 said:
update on the dog from the other day - she was adopted some time last week. yay for her, boo for me. i can't believe how difficult this process seems to be this time around. last year i stumbled upon Lucy and they just gave her to me. this year i have been flat out rejected by a group (won't even talk to me), then found another...who already had a home they just hadn't removed her (but they spent 10 minutes telling me how absolutely fabulous she is), then this dog seemed promising only to turn out to not be the same dog. its all very discouraging. i just want to find my next forever furry friend!
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I'll ship you a Pitty from Florida! As long as there are no other small creatures around.
 
WelshCob said:
I'll ship you a Pitty from Florida! As long as there are no other small creatures around.
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pitties are technically not legally permitted in Grenada 🙁 and while plenty of people have them locally and students bring them in from time to time with crafty paperwork, i could never in good faith adopt a dog that i could potentially get declined by the government, because that means the animal would be stuck in a very small cage in quarantine until it could be shipped back to the US with no where to go. a terribly traumatic and dangerous experience for any animal. it has happened before, as uncommon as it is
 
Exam delayed due to weather. Damn it. ETA: And my sympathies to the AVC fourth years, who are supposed to be writing the NAVLE today. No idea what's going to happen with that.
 
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Exam delayed due to weather. Damn it. ETA: And my sympathies to the AVC fourth years, who are supposed to be writing the NAVLE today. No idea what's going to happen with that.
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My roommate was supposed to write today. She left at 7am,hasn't come home, and isn't answering my texts so I'm hoping she is writing the exam.

ETA: NAVLE is on so my roommate is safe writing the most stressful exam of her life. Writing the NAVLE is better than her lying in a ditch somewhere.
 
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Idiots on the street who think it's a good idea to bark at a random dog (in this case my dog) as we're walking down the street. He's already leash reactive towards dogs because of dogs running up to him off leash and I really don't need him to start reacting that way towards people.
 
And apparently this is stupid person day. Walking Geordie home from an exercise trial he participated in and I'm at the corner across the street from my block. I see a dog like half way down the block, so I have Geordie sit at the corner, focus on me and then cross to go home. Other person thinks it's an excellent idea to run across the street to catch up to me because their dog wants to say hi. No. Totally not okay. First of all, you ask to let dogs greet and you definitely don't approach them to ask by running up behind them. She wasn't even near the corner when we crossed, so I don't know how she thought that was okay. Although, I've had issues with her roommate/bf/husband with the same dog right in front of our house, so I'm kind of not surprised.

Happened to pass her on my walk back to school and called her out on it.
 
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I hear you, orca. Our bulldog Baby was always incredibly dog reactive. We lived in a rural area, where people tended to let their dogs off-leash. My two were always on leash. I couldn't tell you how many times happy bouncy dogs would come bounding up to Baby with the owner yelling, "It's okay! They're friendly!" Yes, but mine isn't. 🙄 And of course, being a bulldog made her difficult to muzzle - if we found a muzzle that fit enough that she couldn't get it off, it usually meant she couldn't really breathe properly. 🙁
 
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