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twelvetigers said:
It's about 2x1.5x0.7cm so, I think I'll need lithotripsy or whatever.

Do you remember Pope telling us about his kidney stone during Phys I? It was equally dour. Sigh
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I do not recall. I blocked out most of physiology. Esp 2/3, but 1 too.

Have you tried some c/d? Lol
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twelvetigers said:
It's about 2x1.5x0.7cm so, I think I'll need lithotripsy or whatever.

Do you remember Pope telling us about his kidney stone during Phys I? It was equally dour. Sigh
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Just go find some rollercoasters to ride 😂
Sadly Big Thunder Mountain at disney is currently getting renovations so it’s not an option 🥲
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Doctor Discovers A Particular Roller Coaster Helps People Pass Kidney Stones

A Michigan State University professor emeritus discovered recently that riding a roller coaster helps patients pass kidney stones.
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DVM882029 said:
Went ahead and ordered my new laptop this morning before that gets astronomically expensive (beyond what it already is).
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Spouse needed a new car. We were planning on doing it next month, but ended up purchasing on Tuesday before tariffs were announced. A couple sources are expecting anywhere from a $5k-$20k increase on non-luxury vehicles. I was starting to briefly consider upgrading my switch when the switch 2 comes out but between the price and the uncertainty of what our COL is going to look like in two months, I think that might now be a next year endeavor.
 
JaynaAli said:
I do not recall. I blocked out most of physiology. Esp 2/3, but 1 too.

Have you tried some c/d? Lol
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I just remember he was in a national park or something and he was laying on a picnic table thinking he was going to die lol. I hated phys too (mostly McCann's bullshet) but I remember most of it, unfortunately. Not like, the important stuff, but all the solvent drag and potato jokes.

I think I'm firmly in S/D territory, and that stuff seems so gelatinous I can't imagine how gross it is. It also gave Chloe pancreatitis and led to her euth at 11 years old so, I'm not a big fan.
SkiOtter said:
Just go find some rollercoasters to ride 😂
Sadly Big Thunder Mountain at disney is currently getting renovations so it’s not an option 🥲
www.cbsnews.com

Doctor Discovers A Particular Roller Coaster Helps People Pass Kidney Stones

A Michigan State University professor emeritus discovered recently that riding a roller coaster helps patients pass kidney stones.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
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The closest roller coaster is 1.5 hours away and also I'd rather not. This guy isn't moving without some intervention first, anyway.
 
pp9 said:
What my back needs right about now:

the avengers fighting GIF by hoppip
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I play co-ed soccer and I may need to stop and only play women’s, because this literally happened to me on Tuesday night. There’s a class of men that like to make up for their lack of skill with Rugby tackles.

Pretty sure I left my body for a few seconds. I am 33, my poor broken body.
 
So I inherited a hospitalized cat from Monday when my coworker was on and i was off. P is in kidney failure and not really responding to tx. O is like we're not ready euth and it's just so unexpected...me reviewing my own notes 🧐

I've determined that to be a lie considering 5 months ago I said to recheck in 1 week and I even put it on the invoice because I was trying to figure out if p was in ckd or just infection and we're just now rechecking despite telling the o o was concerned about the kidneys🙃🙃🙃 0 sympathy for the o. 100% sympathies for the cat. Why do I even try sometimes?
 
indysadventures said:
I play co-ed soccer and I may need to stop and only play women’s, because this literally happened to me on Tuesday night. There’s a class of men that like to make up for their lack of skill with Rugby tackles.

Pretty sure I left my body for a few seconds. I am 33, my poor broken body.
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Oooh this happened to me the last time I was in an indoor soccer league (which was my early 20s)! it was a 'just for fun' league but one team of mostly dudes thought it was really funny to play as aggressively/violently as possible. They should have been kicked out of the league honestly. The number of times I was absolutely thrown against the boards was crazy. And then there was the one time I stopped a goal (I was defense...don't make me run long distances, ever) and the girl on the other team straight up turned around and punched me in the face (I was 16 for that one!).

I am also 33 now and miss soccer, but I just know I wouldn't bounce back from stuff like that these days.
 
I'm currently thinking about quitting my job (its part time and I'm still in undergrad). There was a huge kerfluffle over the past couple months because I asked for a raise due to the fact that I am woefully underpaid and hadn't gotten an increase in pay in over a year. My boss said something to the tune of yeah we'll figure it out. I didn't hear for a month so I emailed asking for an update. She basically said that there were not finances to give me a raise at the moment and I was welcome to leave if I wasn't okay with that (paraphrasing). I was obviously very upset because at that point it was more about respect than the money. About a month later, my coworker told me that she was given a raise of $1 per hours without having needed to ask. Last week I got a raise of $0.50 and was told that they didn't have it in the finances to give me a full dollar raise.

Theres a lot more, but I'm so fed up with them taking advantage of me as an employee and clearly not giving a **** about me or my value to the clinic.

Thanks for listening to my rant, I just needed to get it out.
 
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Had such a crappy birthday. Went into work at 7:30am because we had so much to do and I wanted to make sure I could leave before 5 as I had dinner plans. I told my manager that I need to be gone before 5, she said of course! then proceeded to add 3 new tasks to my schedule that were scheduled until 5..so I did everything I could and she gave me so many passive aggressive comments throughout the day. Someone high up in the team was told it was my birthday and to be nice to me today and they responded with "why?".

I don't understand what I did so wrong to warrant this kind of passive aggressive behavior. I have not had a lunch break all week, have not had a sip or water or the opportunity to use the bathroom. I made a comment yesterday saying "I apologize, I don't remember what all we did yesterday, it was a very busy day" just for my manager to go: "it really wasn't that busy"

... ok.
 
vampyrica said:
Had such a crappy birthday. Went into work at 7:30am because we had so much to do and I wanted to make sure I could leave before 5 as I had dinner plans. I told my manager that I need to be gone before 5, she said of course! then proceeded to add 3 new tasks to my schedule that were scheduled until 5..so I did everything I could and she gave me so many passive aggressive comments throughout the day. Someone high up in the team was told it was my birthday and to be nice to me today and they responded with "why?".

I don't understand what I did so wrong to warrant this kind of passive aggressive behavior. I have not had a lunch break all week, have not had a sip or water or the opportunity to use the bathroom. I made a comment yesterday saying "I apologize, I don't remember what all we did yesterday, it was a very busy day" just for my manager to go: "it really wasn't that busy"

... ok.
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Wishing you a late happy birthday! God, your work sounds awful, I hope you're able to escape soon.
 
overcastkidjuno said:
My home province has the worst parvo outbreak in our history currently, over 70+ cases in the last 72 hours in a single suburb... I have a feeling this is gonna get seriously bad very quickly
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So from what I've been told, there was some org that brought up a bunch of unvaccinated dogs from Texas, & some of those went to a "doggy meet & greet event" then tested positive shortly afterwards. There's a lot of talk about introducing stricter legislation on importing dogs into Canada from the southern U.S. as it has resulted in multiple disease outbreaks (before this was brucellosis). We have a shortage of dogs here (there are probably <10 province-wide in shelters at any given time), so there have been dozens of southern rescues popping up left & right.
 
I’m saving to build a house, and a couple months ago my sister asked me why I had all that savings in a high yield savings account vs invested in the stock market…this. This is why. Maybe it doesn’t grow significantly, but its money I can’t afford to lose, so it’ll stay in savings until we see what happens with tariffs and inflation.
 
overcastkidjuno said:
So from what I've been told, there was some org that brought up a bunch of unvaccinated dogs from Texas, & some of those went to a "doggy meet & greet event" then tested positive shortly afterwards. There's a lot of talk about introducing stricter legislation on importing dogs into Canada from the southern U.S. as it has resulted in multiple disease outbreaks (before this was brucellosis). We have a shortage of dogs here (there are probably <10 province-wide in shelters at any given time), so there have been dozens of southern rescues popping up left & right.
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We had not one but two rabies cases brought up to Colorado from Texas that exposed a ton of people through an adoption event. The rescue is now defunct and the owner of the rescue is trapped in Belize. But they absolutely threw public health under the bus for euthanizing the whole litter that exposed a ton of people.

I strongly dislike these types of rescue. Been getting a ton of distemper recently
 
JaynaAli said:
I’m saving to build a house, and a couple months ago my sister asked me why I had all that savings in a high yield savings account vs invested in the stock market…this. This is why. Maybe it doesn’t grow significantly, but its money I can’t afford to lose, so it’ll stay in savings until we see what happens with tariffs and inflation.
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If my stuff wasn’t in IRAs or other accounts that I could touch, this is definitely the way I’d go
 
I looked at my 401k and I'm down almost 10% if I'm mathing correctly.

Haven't asked my husband how his crypto is doing, which is his biggest investment (besides his own 401k). He voted for this, so I'm sure he won't let it slip that he's losing everything (please don't @ me over his choices, I'm already torn up over it/have a lot of anger).
 
I looked at my IRA and so far it's stable. The plan was to pull from it for educational purposes in 4th year, that way the income doesn't impact my financial eligibility, but I can still cut down on my loans (I've spoken with a financial advisor, I know this generally isn't considered the right choice, but it is the right choice for me and the amount of money that's in there). I have no idea if I should pull it sooner and take the hit to my aid or what at this point. Trying not to make panic decisions.
 
Trying to explain to someone that pain medication isn’t a drug class, but that analgesia is a property of NSAIDs making it effective for pain relief is making me lose brain cells.
 
On my rotation yesterday, I had a pretty tough but interesting case. Things didn’t go perfectly, but we got there in the end and I learned a lot from it. Fast forward to today… When I came in, I listened to the technicians complain about how incompetent I am for close to 10 minutes because I didn’t immediately know what was going on in this patient with extremely vague signs. I already have really bad imposter syndrome and my anxiety has gotten so bad as graduation approaches and now I just feel like I’m going to be an awful doctor and I’m not excited for graduation at all.
 
vetsquared said:
On my rotation yesterday, I had a pretty tough but interesting case. Things didn’t go perfectly, but we got there in the end and I learned a lot from it. Fast forward to today… When I came in, I listened to the technicians complain about how incompetent I am for close to 10 minutes because I didn’t immediately know what was going on in this patient with extremely vague signs. I already have really bad imposter syndrome and my anxiety has gotten so bad as graduation approaches and now I just feel like I’m going to be an awful doctor and I’m not excited for graduation at all.
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Having had the opportunity to work with you, you are a kickass doctor and you'll be fantastic. Eff the haters.
 
vetsquared said:
On my rotation yesterday, I had a pretty tough but interesting case. Things didn’t go perfectly, but we got there in the end and I learned a lot from it. Fast forward to today… When I came in, I listened to the technicians complain about how incompetent I am for close to 10 minutes because I didn’t immediately know what was going on in this patient with extremely vague signs. I already have really bad imposter syndrome and my anxiety has gotten so bad as graduation approaches and now I just feel like I’m going to be an awful doctor and I’m not excited for graduation at all.
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Okay. I'm going to say something that may or may not earn me some heat, because I've seen this scenario play out so many times:

Some techs in teaching/specialty hospitals have hyper-inflated, but also very delicate, egos. Like, to the point where they feel like they are the doctors. That's not to say they aren't talented techs or intelligent - they could probably go through vet school if they wanted (but they didn't). Part of it is 'I've seen this 1000 times and knew what to do, but I'm forgetting this is your very first time seeing this' the other part is the fact that some techs have a hard time taking direction from students/new grads/interns +/- have an inferiority complex, and it makes them feel better to make you feel small. Honestly I think they have an issue seeing someone typically half their age with less years in the field call the shots, but that might just be stemming from the techs I know who behaved like this constantly. I've personally never experienced this outside of a teaching or specialty hospital.

I'm sorry no one was around to stick up for you. I've had no problem checking techs who do this with interns. It's hazing, plain and simple. The majority of techs in this world are perfectly pleasant people, but the small percent that aren't can absolutely make your life terrible.

Easier said than done, but don't let it get you down. If it happens again, honestly just turn around and remind them this is a teaching hospital - if they don't have constructive criticism to offer in the moment or after, then they can keep their b*tching at happy hour.
 
pp9 said:
I've personally never experienced this outside of a teaching or specialty hospital.
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Man there was one technician on rotations that was horrible, no matter the student or intern. Even some of the residents would get flack from her.

I've had so much help from my techs in the real world, though. @vetsquared you'll be a good doctor ❤️
 
battie said:
Man there was one technician on rotations that was horrible, no matter the student or intern. Even some of the residents would get flack from her.

I've had so much help from my techs in the real world, though. @vetsquared you'll be a good doctor ❤️
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Was this tech in small animal for many years, then moved to large animal within the past few years?
 
pp9 said:
Was this tech in small animal for many years, then moved to large animal within the past few years?
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They were in anesthesia but not vts when I was on junior surgery and in rotations
 
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I am so stressed out. I have enough trouble paying bills as it is before the tariffs. I am working on certification that will allow me a better paying job, at which point I was going to start trying to get pregnant. It's not like it'll make me well-off though. I am going to go up from $25k to $60k (an amount that will be stretched less far with the tariffs).
 
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pp9 said:
Some techs in teaching/specialty hospitals have hyper-inflated, but also very delicate, egos.
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There is a 'tech' at my job that is very similar to this. She went to tech school but hasn't passed the VTNE yet (despite taking it twice and finishing school 3-4 years ago). She can't take feedback or new ideas. Whenever one of the assists does something well, she takes credit. Its incredibly frustrating. Not a tech at large problem, just a her problem lol.
 
Someone dumped (yes another) a dog in my neighborhood private dog park at 3am. I woke up to howling and knew exactly what I was going to find. He was so scared, pacing, and immediately ran up to me for comfort. Once again owner located by chip and doesn’t want the dog. Shelter is once again full and refuses to take in. Starting to think people are purposely dumping animals around me somehow because they know I’ll take them in, or animal overpopulation / ownership is really that bad in Florida.

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If anyone is looking for a 15m old lab x Aussie……
 

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katiemcat said:
Someone dumped (yes another) a dog in my neighborhood private dog park at 3am. I woke up to howling and knew exactly what I was going to find. He was so scared, pacing, and immediately ran up to me for comfort. Once again owner located by chip and doesn’t want the dog. Shelter is once again full and refuses to take in. Starting to think people are purposely dumping animals around me somehow because they know I’ll take them in, or animal overpopulation / ownership is really that bad in Florida.

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If anyone is looking for a 15m old lab x Aussie……
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It’s so sickening. I can’t even watch the videos of people dumping their animals and driving away anymore. There are so many options for people and they’d still rather just dump the dog somewhere random??? I’ll never understand.

Hate that this adds to your plate, but have you spoken with local police? They should probably start setting up cameras and whatnot. There was an area near my hometown that was a popular dog dumping site and surveillance helped them catch at least a few people.
 
I don't understand why not pursue these dumpings from a government standpoint. Easy money in fines!
 
pp9 said:
It’s so sickening. I can’t even watch the videos of people dumping their animals and driving away anymore. There are so many options for people and they’d still rather just dump the dog somewhere random??? I’ll never understand.

Hate that this adds to your plate, but have you spoken with local police? They should probably start setting up cameras and whatnot. There was an area near my hometown that was a popular dog dumping site and surveillance helped them catch at least a few people.
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battie said:
I don't understand why not pursue these dumpings from a government standpoint. Easy money in fines!
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They literally have the person on camera. Animal control doesn’t respond to any calls around here, tells civilians to put found animals back into the road because the county shelter is full, and routinely leaves animals in abusive situations for the same reason. They’ve claimed to me the people who do this often don’t have the money to pay the fines - but how would you know if you have not even tried??? Florida is basically a get out of animal abuse free state unless the case is in the news with public outrage like the bull terrier tied to the highway during the hurricane.
 
katiemcat said:
Florida is basically a get out of animal abuse free state
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Not true for the entire state - I had multiple clients that were charged after abandoning their pets at my ER in Tampa. Could just be that Hillsborough county was better about it, or we had a stronger paper trail for evidence of abandonment so the charges would stick better. We had to do the whole thing where we hold the pet for 10 days, send certified letters, etc. Things got more complicated if the pet was seriously sick or injured.

Never spent the time to follow up and see what happened to the owners after the charges except for my worst case, and that guy ended up in jail (can't remember how long his sentence was though).
 
pp9 said:
Not true for the entire state - I had multiple clients that were charged after abandoning their pets at my ER in Tampa. Could just be that Hillsborough county was better about it, or we had a stronger paper trail for evidence of abandonment so the charges would stick better. We had to do the whole thing where we hold the pet for 10 days, send certified letters, etc. Things got more complicated if the pet was seriously sick or injured.

Never spent the time to follow up and see what happened to the owners after the charges except for my worst case, and that guy ended up in jail (can't remember how long his sentence was though).
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Maybe it’s just a north Florida thing Never saw this level of indifference when I lived in south Florida. It’s really disheartening.
 
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