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breenie said:
Exactly.
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:laugh:

this whole friggin' topic is distracting me from studying the VERY important topics of magnetism and electromagnetic induction for my physics test tomorrow...i have been SO productive today. /sarcasm.

thanks for giving me a good laugh tho 😍
 
WhtsThFrequency said:
Are you implying I'm a ho-bag? 😀

However, I suppose current beau IS done frequently.... :meanie:
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Haha another rant away from relationships...

Its been a few days since this happened but it REALLY pissed me off lol!!!

So these people bring in a 10mth australian shepherd with a rash on its belly. Apparently when it was younger it had really bad ear infections and was muzzled and now has a fear of being restrained. Apparently. So this is the story so far...

So we want to clip the belly. The owner wont let us do this without them being present. So im restraining the dog on his side, while the owners stand at his head, holding a treat right in front of his head and calling his name in a sing song voice over and over again. OF COURSE THE DOG IS STRUGGLING TO GET UP!!!!! YOU ARE USING THE SAME VOICE YOU USE TO MAKE IT COME!!! IT WANTS TO GRAB THE TREAT AND THINKS ITS MEANT TO BE GOING SOMEWHERE!!!!!! AAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So of course then the owners wont leave the dog alone, and then they get distressed by the dog struggling, so we have to stop. And then i go to let the dog up - by slowly releasing restraint and letting it get up in a controlled manner - AND THE OWNER THEN HAS A GO AT ME FOR NOT "LETTING THE DOG GO FAST ENOUGH" ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!! No, i'm NOT going to just release your dog and let it explode off the table, hurting me, itself and you!!! Believe it or not, after nearly 7 years of vet nursing, I KNOW WHAT IM DOING!!!! RAAAAWWWRRRRR!!!

And then of course, this incident just fuels the owners ideas about their dogs behaviour.... argh!!!!
 
i'm having such a bad week(s). Last week I was sick with a cold the entire time, then as soon as i recover from that, i get scratched by a cat at work at the END of my shift on saturday and then suddenly have a weird freaky allergic reaction (swollen lips, tongue feeling funny, difficult to swallow, hives/welts, itchy skin + eyes, red and splotchy) so then i went to the ER after taking benadryl and had to get prescribed augmentin + prednisone after listening to the dr tell me that i shouldn't handle cats anymore, which is obviously not an option. so i bought claritin and took some before work the next morning and was fine the entire time.

then this week i had a physics test and physics lab report, and an orgo lab report due tomorrow. all while trying to finish my tufts application.

THIS WEEK AND LAST WEEKED SUCKED/SUCKS!!!! i want to pull my hair out.
 
Pulling off some pretty mediocre B's in two classes this semester.

It seems like the new department policy is to give completely arbitrary examinations which are graded by whim and passing fancy.

I don't care if your tests are on backwards Chinese math. I'll study and get an A on it as long as there is a definitive correct answer to a properly worded question.

This is science, motherf**kers, not a poetry critique.
 
sunnex3 said:
so then i went to the ER after taking benadryl and had to get prescribed augmentin + prednisone after listening to the dr tell me that i shouldn't handle cats anymore, which is obviously not an option.
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MD's Just Don't Get It. Mine refuses to give me an allergy test until I try managing symptoms by limiting exposure and taking an OTC medication. And since I'll never be able to limit exposure, I'll never be able to get the test.

Hope your week gets better!
 
pooter said:
MD's Just Don't Get It. Mine refuses to give me an allergy test until I try managing symptoms by limiting exposure and taking an OTC medication. And since I'll never be able to limit exposure, I'll never be able to get the test.

Hope your week gets better!
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I guess, in a weird way though, its kinda like refusing a fat person lap band surgery unless they agree to eat healthier/less... and i see the logic in that lol!!!

Coming from a fellow vet student allergic to cats/owns a cat lol.
 
sunshinevet said:
I guess, in a weird way though, its kinda like refusing a fat person lap band surgery unless they agree to eat healthier/less... and i see the logic in that lol!!!

Coming from a fellow vet student allergic to cats/owns a cat lol.
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I used to be allergic to cats, but lived with one when they ran some allergy tests for other things and noticed it. They told me to not let him sleep with me, since I'd had him since he was a kitten and refused to get rid of him/wasn't bothered enough by him.

A few years later in college, I participated in an allergy/asthma study for some money, and they re-ran my allergy tests and I was no longer allergic to cats. I was super lucky, but it was a pretty mild allergy to begin with.

There is some hope for other cat lovers. 🙂
 
pooter said:
MD's Just Don't Get It. Mine refuses to give me an allergy test until I try managing symptoms by limiting exposure and taking an OTC medication. And since I'll never be able to limit exposure, I'll never be able to get the test.

Hope your week gets better!
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If you are on Aetna Student Health PM me and I will give you the name of the allergist my wife went to see here. He was willing to run blood tests to determine what allergy she has when we visit the Southwest! Very easygoing.
 
Dsmoody23 said:
I don't care if your tests are on backwards Chinese math. I'll study and get an A on it as long as there is a definitive correct answer to a properly worded question.

This is science, motherf**kers, not a poetry critique.
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👍
 
Hats off to karmapple and LetItSnow for doing it (even if it's it's not "cake"). I take it (and hope) that you both have spouses that are also part of the picture? I know my own kids (now grown) were a handful at times (especially at age 16), and I was a control freak mom. I guess you guys are probably less neurotic and controlling parents than I was to be able to let go a little and be vet students and have your own life aside from the kids...that's definitely a good thing!
 
Bisbee said:
Hats off to karmapple and LetItSnow for doing it (even if it's it's not "cake"). I take it (and hope) that you both have spouses that are also part of the picture? I know my own kids (now grown) were a handful at times (especially at age 16), and I was a control freak mom. I guess you guys are probably less neurotic and controlling parents than I was to be able to let go a little and be vet students and have your own life aside from the kids...that's definitely a good thing!
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My daughter is only four months old, so no sass yet. :laugh: Now the lack of sleep, that's a different story...

And yes, I have a husband that is a devoted dad. How else could I survive?
 
Oh my gosh, four months old. A little angel, so sweet, so sweet. The happiest days of your life. Enjoy!
 
i don't know how you guys handle having a family and applying to vet school/going to vet school! i truly admire you (kudos!)

i can barely handle my own life right now (and it really is just me, no boyfriend, no husband/kids) - going to school, applying, FT job. it's truly amazing that you guys are able to balance everything!
 
karmapple said:
I must be doing something wrong then. "Cake" isn't quite how I would describe my life right now!
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Perhaps the sarcasm wasn't ringing through quite loudly enough? 🙂

Bisbee said:
I take it (and hope) that you both have spouses that are also part of the picture?
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It's easier for me than some parents because when I was working full time my wife was the primary care giver for the kids. Now that I'm in school ... she still is. So things have changed a bit in that I'm even less available than before, but it's not like a huge 180 degree change for the kids. Just more 'adjustment'.

Also, even though Ian is only 5-6 months old (cheers, Karmapple, isn't it fun having babies around?), he's our third kid. You kinda get it figured out right around number 2 or 3. As best you're going to figure it out, anyway. It's way different than your first.

All that to say: It really sucks balancing family/school, but it's not quite so horrible as some people think or as some of us occasionally make it out to be when we have anatomy tests the next day and want to rationalize why we didn't study as much as we should have. 🙂
 
LetItSnow-You have a new baby, too! I don't know how you and Karmapple get any studying done with those little sweeties. I'd just be hanging over the cradle watching them sleep not able to tear myself away. Again, hats off to you both!
 
Really guys?

But histology is like my best class. 🙁 Stop the hate, love the cells!
 
Coquette22 said:
If you're such good friends with them, tell them to wear name-tags.
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It's ALWAYS pseudostratified columnar epithelium.

Or hyaline cartilage.

One or the other. Maybe an autonomic ganglion.

These broad guesses have never failed me.
 
You guys are no fun. Hmph.

Anatomy deserves way more hate.
 
Coquette22 said:
See, if it was just those two, I'd be fine. Those two are very distinctive. It's smooth muscle vs dense regular connective vs fibrocartilage... I swear, they are all the same thing. Pink squiggly lines.
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Has cigar-shaped nuclei vs few cells vs cells in lacunae!

Boom bam breenie school of histology.

But seriously, I probably spent like 10 minutes staring at the dense regular collagenous connective tissue on our last practical, wondering, "But... how regular... is regular?" in my head. It is hard. I just like it better than some of our other classes here. 🙂
 
breenie said:
You guys are no fun. Hmph.

Anatomy deserves way more hate.
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Hey man, I feel the same way about metabolism. I love metabolism but it's getting a lot of hate right now...

With that said, boo histology!! I like it, and it's going well enough, but I feel like I made stupid mistakes on that last test.
 
scb44f said:
Hey man, I feel the same way about metabolism. I love metabolism but it's getting a lot of hate right now...

With that said, boo histology!! I like it, and it's going well enough, but I feel like I made stupid mistakes on that last test.
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Oh come on! You're killing me here!

(Though I am of the pro-metabolism stance. Anything is better than anatomy.)
 
breenie said:
Oh come on! You're killing me here!

(Though I am of the pro-metabolism stance. Anything is better than anatomy.)
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I suppose booing histo wasn't very nice, but seriously, I feel like I know it and then I go in there and do dumb stuff and don't see striations when it's supposed to be cardiac or skeletal muscle (although I'm blaming it on a crap microscope because I was correctly identifying the different types of muscle just a few days before with my SO as a witness).
 
scb44f said:
I suppose booing histo wasn't very nice, but seriously, I feel like I know it and then I go in there and do dumb stuff and don't see striations when it's supposed to be cardiac or skeletal muscle (although I'm blaming it on a crap microscope because I was correctly identifying the different types of muscle just a few days before with my SO as a witness).
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Oooh yeah, some of the staining was goofy for the test slides.
 
scb44f said:
(although I'm blaming it on a crap microscope because I was correctly identifying the different types of muscle just a few days before with my SO as a witness).
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quite possible. for some reason, the second years who used the same microscopes for their clin path class would get freaking oil all over even the 40x lens and let it sit there forever... so no matter how hard you tried to clean it, it was totally all just pink/purple haze. ugh. I'd spend half the lab period cleaning the lens... and it still wasn't right.
 
Minnerbelle said:
quite possible. for some reason, the second years who used the same microscopes for their clin path class would get freaking oil all over even the 40x lens and let it sit there forever... so no matter how hard you tried to clean it, it was totally all just pink/purple haze. ugh. I'd spend half the lab period cleaning the lens... and it still wasn't right.
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That sucks! I don't know how you get it on the 40x, but they must've been doing work!
 
breenie said:
And cilia.
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Or stereocilia. Which is actually microvilli.

(p.s. I'm actually with Breenie in the It's Not That Bad camp. All in favor of piling on the anatomy hate, say "Aiyaiyai!")
 
See, I tolerate anatomy. I accept that I'll never be fantastic at it, but I can get by and I don't mind it too much. I have awesome group members and a couple great profs, and a cadaver that doesn't require too much fat cleaning. If anatomy was a perosn, I wouldn't be friends with it, but I'd nod to it in the hallway. Histology and I hate each other. With a passion. If it was a person, we would have been in a full on biting, scratching, hair pulling bitch fight by now.
 
pooter said:
Or stereocilia. Which is actually microvilli.

(p.s. I'm actually with Breenie in the It's Not That Bad camp. All in favor of piling on the anatomy hate, say "Aiyaiyai!")
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"Aiyaiyai!"

how about piling the hate on stress and exams? we have 6 weeks left, but it kinda feels like the groundhog came out and said 6 more weeks of winter than yay only 6 weeks left!
 
pooter said:
Or stereocilia. Which is actually microvilli.

(p.s. I'm actually with Breenie in the It's Not That Bad camp. All in favor of piling on the anatomy hate, say "Aiyaiyai!")
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I like gross anatomy (minus the dose of embryology we get with it).

Histology? Sorry, Breenie, yer cool 'n all, but histo can take the nearest filament to a lysosome. I swear the instructors just make this stuff up. One of them almost admitted it one day in lecture when someone asked a question and the prof said "Well, I can see it on this picture, but you can't."
 
LetItSnow said:
I like gross anatomy (minus the dose of embryology we get with it).

Histology? Sorry, Breenie, yer cool 'n all, but histo can take the nearest filament to a lysosome. I swear the instructors just make this stuff up. One of them almost admitted it one day in lecture when someone asked a question and the prof said "Well, I can see it on this picture, but you can't."
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Yeah, they are characters.

My favorite quote came from one of our histo professors who, upon noticing we were kinda confused in lecture, mumbled, "This is all a lot easier to learn if you know it already..."
 
breenie said:
Yeah, they are characters.

My favorite quote came from one of our histo professors who, upon noticing we were kinda confused in lecture, mumbled, "This is all a lot easier to learn if you know it already..."
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any time someone asks my professor what's really important (like right before an exam), he gives us this confused look and says "it's all important. thats why i put it in the notes!" (and he truly means that every statement written in the packet is important)
 
LetItSnow said:
I swear the instructors just make this stuff up. One of them almost admitted it one day in lecture when someone asked a question and the prof said "Well, I can see it on this picture, but you can't."
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That's why they say that your most important tool in vet school is your imaginoscope 😛. Favorite line during my histo class was "you're really going to see a big blob of a cell, but if you put on your imaginoscope, you might see ____"

I used to work with at human neuropathologist, and she'd tell me about how she would torment all her residents by answering "I just know. It's hard to describe. One of these days you'll just know too" when asked how she can tell the difference between X,Y, and Z on the slide.
 
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