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I think I may have badly messed up my knee yesterday playing hockey. Got my skates sharpened by somebody who actually knew what they were doing for once, and so they were very sharp (I get them done at a sharper cut with more bite than most people because I'm small). I was laying my leg and stick out to block a centering pass and usually I'd glide at the angle I had my foot but instead my edge caught and it locked my knee, then as luck would have it with my knee locked the girl making the pass ran me and it hyperextended and buckled. I felt a snap, some nasty pain and immediately couldn't bear weight on it. It still hurts a lot and feels really weak, and I can't extend it or flex it past a certain angle.

I am trying to tough it out until I can go to the student health center tomorrow because I HATE the urgent care center that we're supposed to go to with the student health insurance.
 
nyanko said:
I think I may have badly messed up my knee yesterday playing hockey. Got my skates sharpened by somebody who actually knew what they were doing for once, and so they were very sharp (I get them done at a sharper cut with more bite than most people because I'm small). I was laying my leg and stick out to block a centering pass and usually I'd glide at the angle I had my foot but instead my edge caught and it locked my knee, then as luck would have it with my knee locked the girl making the pass ran me and it hyperextended and buckled. I felt a snap, some nasty pain and immediately couldn't bear weight on it. It still hurts a lot and feels really weak, and I can't extend it or flex it past a certain angle.

I am trying to tough it out until I can go to the student health center tomorrow because I HATE the urgent care center that we're supposed to go to with the student health insurance.
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OH NO!!!! 🙁

:xf: UBER TIGHT that neither your ACL or MCL were involved. Sadly, it sounds like a patella tendon issue to me; but without seeing how you were hit/went down I'm going to stop practicing medicine w/o a license... Instead, I will send continuous good thoughts your way along with all the empathy possible. I have a lousy knee and it's one of the things that makes me fear actually getting into vet school - I don't know what I would do without major medical. Good luck!!!!
 
Uggggggh. So sorry to hear that Nyanko!! That does not sound good at all. Sending good mojo your way :luck::luck::luck:
 
That does not sound good, Nyan... hope it's not anything serious. booooo.
 
1. A Box**** is NOT a breed. I don't care how "pure bred" the boxer and shih tzu were. A box**** is NOT a breed.

2. No, you can not feed your newborn box****s pedialyte or cow's milk and expect them to live.

3. Yes, if mother dog is not lactating and you can not afford puppy milk replacer than the puppies will die.

4. No feeding the mother dog cow's milk and egg yolk will not cause her to start lactating, stop reading the damn internet, it lies.

5. Did you ever THINK about how much $$$ it might cost you if something went wrong BEFORE you bred your dogs??? Seriously, if you can not afford something as simple as puppy milk replacer than DO NOT BREED your dogs!!! (I am not even going to touch on why you should not breed a boxer and shih tzu).




Sending good vibes your way, nyanko. Hopefully it is nothing too horrible!! :xf:
 
A note to my environmental ecology TA: If you discover that out of 150+ students, not ONE of us got a certain calculation right, you might want to consider that the problem lies with what you told us to do. 😡
 
nyanko said:
I think I may have badly messed up my knee yesterday playing hockey. Got my skates sharpened by somebody who actually knew what they were doing for once, and so they were very sharp (I get them done at a sharper cut with more bite than most people because I'm small). I was laying my leg and stick out to block a centering pass and usually I'd glide at the angle I had my foot but instead my edge caught and it locked my knee, then as luck would have it with my knee locked the girl making the pass ran me and it hyperextended and buckled. I felt a snap, some nasty pain and immediately couldn't bear weight on it. It still hurts a lot and feels really weak, and I can't extend it or flex it past a certain angle.

I am trying to tough it out until I can go to the student health center tomorrow because I HATE the urgent care center that we're supposed to go to with the student health insurance.
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Any news?
 
nyanko said:
Grade 2 ACL sprain/partial tear is the suspect. I have to see a sports med doctor later.

And use crutches...lame.
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Ugh... that sucks and hurts a LOT. 🙁 I also had a Grade 2 ACL sprain/partial tear along with a MCL partial tear. I got tripped during a hockey game and the girl who tripped me hyperextended my knee when her stick got caught around my knee - of course, I landed on my hyperextended knee. Buckle. Snap. Worst pain I ever felt.

Good news - I didn't need surgery, just lots of PT and time. Hope it works out the same for you so you can get back on the ice soon. 🙂
 
And use crutches...lame.
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Crutches and vet school must have a thing going. Every week we've had someone on crutches since the beginning of school. One of the profs was on them for a long time. Last week it was a dude, this week it's a girl. Next week, who knows?
 
And the person who's turn it is next week will wonder why I'm giving them quizzical glances.

"Her? I never would've guessed!"
 
My youngest cat, Dorian, is going into exlap surgery at the moment. He's been on and off sick for a few days, vomited most of his barium this morning when I took him in, and on his rads his stomach looks like it's got a lot of weird stuff in it. Given that this cat puts everything in his mouth, I'm not surprised, but seriously worried. Especially since last time he was sedated, for his neuter, his face blew up like a balloon. Hoping that pre-med with diphenhydramine will keep him from going into anaphylactic shock and that they can get whatever's in there out.

Fingers crossed please? :xf:
 
Whyevernot55 said:
My youngest cat, Dorian, is going into exlap surgery at the moment. He's been on and off sick for a few days, vomited most of his barium this morning when I took him in, and on his rads his stomach looks like it's got a lot of weird stuff in it. Given that this cat puts everything in his mouth, I'm not surprised, but seriously worried. Especially since last time he was sedated, for his neuter, his face blew up like a balloon. Hoping that pre-med with diphenhydramine will keep him from going into anaphylactic shock and that they can get whatever's in there out.

Fingers crossed please? :xf:
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ACK :scared:....how'd it go? :xf::luck::xf::luck::xf::xf:
 
flyhi said:
ACK :scared:....how'd it go? :xf::luck::xf::luck::xf::xf:
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Negative exlaps are the WORST. Cat is home, stoned out of his mind. He ate a smidge of wet food, though he's so out of it that he took nearly half an hour to do it. He also peed for a solid 30 seconds as soon as I got him home, lol. So we'll see how he does? Who knows! More finger crossing for no more vomit, and hopefully within a week he'll be heading back to normal...
 
I don't own a car. So it's more like "here's some crutches have fun."

Normally I bike, walk, bus/walk or inline skate to places, or get rides from people if I feel like it. I never really realized how much I rely on having working legs until now. I keep a lot different schedule than most people and have different study habits so I feel bad asking classmates for rides to places or home. I prefer to study for most classes by myself and away from home and for huge chunks of uninterrupted time extending late at night - not very conducive to having people drive me places, even though people have offered.

So I bus and hobble right now since I can't skate or cycle. Unfortunately bus service ends at 10 pm so I can't stay in the library as late as I'd like. C'est la vie...
 
So p'oed at my PI right now. She's had three weeks to analyze my data that I spent a week in the lab until 3 am analyzing (just so she could have it one certain day). I also sent her an abstract to proof. We're meeting with the dean of the science school tomorrow so he can proof/advise/give blessing, and she hasn't even read through it yet! I love her to death, but she is so scatterbrained and it's driving me crazy right now. I have two tests that I need to be studying for (one of them hers) and instead I'm sitting here livid and unproductive because she's going to make me look bad in front of the dean because I can't stay up until 6 am perfecting this (we've already rescheduled the meeting twice). 😡
 
My oh my. OK, here we go...

OK folks - So sorry to hear about your yahoos and their guns. Having gunfire (and/or the fear of) rock you out of bed is NO fun. 😡 You all have my deepest sympathies.

Nyanko - That sucks! You can now say that it is indeed possible for something to both suck and blow at the same time. 😳 I'm really sorry to hear about the ACL; and will keep my fingers crossed that PT will do it for you. I've been living with a partial meniscus tear (and a bunch of other 'good' stuff) for years. Take heart in knowing that you will probably become a human barometer. It's actually kind of fun to be able to tell when the weather man is wrong.

Whyevernot - Poor kitty!! 🙁 :xf::xf::xf::xf: x a gabillion for a speedy recovery!

NStarz - Oh no she didn't! :nono: Boo hiss! Just remember that you know your project better than ANYONE and I'm sure that the Dean will recognize that this is not your fault.
 
Tomorrow I have a biochem midterm at 9 am and a genetics midterm at 10 am. Both exams are covering DNA/RNA for a large majority of the material, so I thought that it'd basically be like studying for one exam, but I was so wrong about that. I think that reading about the same material explained in slightly different ways with slightly different details included for each class has led to me feeling like I am about to explode.

I think the power point slides for my genetics class are written in some sort of code. They are all random figures taken from journal articles with no accompanying explanation.

I finish this December and will have the spring off, but I am so f-ing ready to be done right now.
 
What a day.

I was on my way to my organic chemistry II quiz when some STUPID person on a bike ran into me! I fell, got all scraped up and bloody. Lots of pain. Lots of anger.
When I got to class, I couldn't find a comfortable position in my chair and just felt crappy. I started my quiz, and it was going well until I got to the last few questions and totally blanked because I was in so much agony. I just wanted to get out of that wretched chair. I wrote something feasible down for an answer and turned it in. My TA keeps the quiz at the front of the room so you can see you did after you turn it in. Yeah, not so great, probably a 20/25 and I scored 25/25 on the last three. I let myself down. Oh well, I can drop this quiz if I do better on the next one.
Then orgo lab. Ugh. I HATE THAT LAB SO MUCH. We have been doing a series of reactions over the past 3 WEEKS that all add up to the final product that needed to be turned in today. My product wasn't good to begin with this week, so I knew my purity was off. When the process was complete three hours later, I took the melting point, even though the product was still wet, and of course my melting point was off by 20 degrees. I tried to explain to my TA that it needed to dry more and she just told me to take the melting point I got. UGH. I know my product isn't pure, but I don't think it's that impure to yield a melting point 20 degrees cooler. This lab is graded on yield (40 points) and purity (70 points) but I guess each TA grades differently and not everyone gets 30 points ( deduction for impurities) taken off for an impure product. Hopefully whatever TA grades my product will be nice.

I'm in lots of pain right now and very upset with how today went. At least I'm going home in two weeks (first time in 3 months)...
 
nyanko said:
I don't own a car. So it's more like "here's some crutches have fun."
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I've watched ads on TV for some great mobility carts.
Or, maybe you could "borrow" one from Walmart for a couple of months.
 
nyanko said:
Really, you're complaining about a 95/100 being the lowest you can possibly get? :laugh:
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I have high standards, okay?!:d I've tried to loosen up since my acceptance, but I just can't do it and am very stressed. 🙁
 
nyanko said:
Really, you're complaining about a 95/100 being the lowest you can possibly get? :laugh:
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Reminds me of something one of my classmates said after our mindbreaking micro exam this morning: "If I got below a 90 it'll be my drop."

Really? REALLY??! This is now reason 10,982 to tune said classmate out (seriously, I wish I could mute them).

</minirant >
 
I have high standards, okay?!:d I've tried to loosen up since my acceptance, but I just can't do it and am as stressed out as ever. 🙁
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Practice loosening up now, lest you self-destruct in vet school.
 
cuitlamiztli said:
Reminds me of something one of my classmates said after our mindbreaking micro exam this morning: "If I got below a 90 it'll be my drop."

Really? REALLY??! This is now reason 10,982 to tune said classmate out (seriously, I wish I could mute them).
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My old roomate got upset because she got a 78 on a midterm once. The class average was 42%. "I'm just not used to 70s! *sob*". She's in pharmacy school now and extremely stressed out. Last time I was on FB, she was whining that she had to study instead of going home for the long weekend. I'm a 9 hour bus ride from my hometown... I NEVER get to go home for long weekends.

If she's managed to find old tests and twist people's arms into giving their answers, then she's probably doing just fine in pharmacy school.

Last year, I got 92% of the animal behavior midterm. She asked me how I did and I told her. "Oh, I didn't do that well... 🙁" I later find out that she got an 87. Nothing wrong with an 87!
 
I didn't mean to seem arrogant or stuck up about being upset with my score. I was disappointed because I let my current state at the time really get to me. I was raised in a military family and was taught to let nothing stand in the way of greatness. Not today.
 
psilovethomas said:
I didn't mean to seem arrogant or stuck up about being upset with my score. I was disappointed because I let my current state at the time really get to me. I was raised in a military family and was taught to let nothing stand in the way of greatness. Not today.
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Hey hey don't worry about it. I understand where you're coming from - I tend to be worried about my grades way more than I should - I am slowly learning that if I want a resting bp less than 100, I need to tone it down 😛 Just recognize that you can't always be at the top - and that you will be a good vet anyway 🙂 And - you're into vet school! And - you have some time before starting! Enjoy that rare freedom!
 
psilovethomas said:
I didn't mean to seem arrogant or stuck up about being upset with my score. I was disappointed because I let my current state at the time really get to me. I was raised in a military family and was taught to let nothing stand in the way of greatness. Not today.
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We understand, but one of the biggest reasons why so many vet students end up depressed is because they're always used to getting great scores and being at the top of their class etc, and then go to vet school and don't nessercerrily do great. So if you have a hard time with failure, or with doing "average" or anything like that, its best to work on it now, because we don't want you becoming a statistic!!! Just some friendly advice 🙂


My rant: My kitty has a kidney infection 🙁 I'm such a worried kitten-mummy right now 🙁

Also, at the clinic I live in we have a dog currently being treated for immune-mediated thrombocytopaenia. It was hard enough convincing the owners to bring it in for treatment - when the vet told her that dogs die from it if left untreated, she finally brought it back down. When she arrived, she told us the dog was booked in for grooming tomorrow and would it be ok if we could arrange for that to still be done... *facepalm* How about we just make sure you're dog lives?!
 
heylodeb said:
you live in a clinic? now that is true dedication!

Hope the kitty is feeling better today. Doing a kidney dance for you! 🙂
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I get to live a 10min walk from some of the best beaches in Australia, completely for free (no rent, no gas, elect, water, phone or internet bills) in exchange for me checking up on animals at night (we take no phonecalls or patients after hours - just what we already have in, all truly critical patients get moved to 24hr hospitals).

It is an AMAZING situation, lol. I'm obviously so dedicated 😎
 
Cramming neuroanatomy (which is freaking complicated!) into two weeks in preparation for the biggest exam of the year while also having to study for four other exams starting in 7 days? LAME..
 
I'm so tired of this ecology essay. I want it to be done. I want to stop thinking about it. Rough draft due on Monday. Then three of my classmates critique it, I edit it and hand it in on December 6. Stupid term paper...
 
66 on my genetics exam 🙁 Average was a 60. He does a massive curve at the end of the semester, and I did get a 94 on the first test, so it's not a total bust, but I'm still not happy about it.
 
I have to give a powerpoint presentation to my honours committee in about an hour... blarg. I hate oral presentations.

Also, I'm desperately trying to find a class to take that will replace my mark for organic chemistry I. I'm currently enrolled in organic chemistry II and I have heard that the class is rediculous. People have gotten away with taken a food chemistry course instead of organic, but my dumb small university doesn't have a food chemistry course. I've been looking at nutrition courses but no luck... they'd count if organic was a pre-req. *sigh* I reaaaalllly don't want to take organic II next semester!
 
I'm going to my first chemistry help session in the TA office in about 30mins. I suppose that should kind of be a rave, since they should be able to help me (and I'm determined to bring this darn lab grades up and get that B) but I'm nervous. I've never been to chem help before and I peeked in when I went by to check the schedule and its like, tables sorted by your class and I'm just hoping I can get the answers I need and skedaddle. After looking over the lab, there's really one thing I'm hung up on that should help me get the rest of the problems. I'm going to have them check what I think are the right equations for the rest of the problems. I guess I should stay and try and figure out discussion questions, too.

I know this is a good thing and that I'll get over it and I'm being silly. I'm going to survive this stupid lab that makes no immediate sense and write a blistering final evaluation. I will not be nervous of a room full of students that need help too! I will not look like an idiot.
 
Kvetch said:
My Rant: To all the Student docs out there....please pay heed:

This "belief " and trust in the specialty "Boards" (ABMS) and similar mercenary organizations (ACGME / RRC) is a symptom of the greater ill of the growing bureaucratic control and cost of medicine in general. The medical specialty boards are just another business - another self proclaimed "accreditation" business - a private enterprise - that's found a way to make HUGE profits from leeching off the medical field and driving up costs and making themselves appear as "official" agencies of some credulity - horsepucky - they're just a dang profiteering business who couldn't care less about you and your patients well being. They are driven by greed and controlled by special interests like any bureaucracy. And in fact they are doing more harm than good to the quality and variety of training of medical residents across the country. Many excellent free-standing residency programs with innovative ideas and methods and fresh approaches with regional relevance have been shut down due to the ACGME and the RRC behemoth - and the growth of the "boards" that "certify” physicians - after they've ALREADY proved themselves through State Licensure and many many years of training - both in general medicine and specialty training - and GRADUATED from the programs ready to practice. I got board cert in my first specialty, but I've done 2 residencies and 2 fellowships and I'm tired and sick of test taking - which proves nothing. I know excellent docs who've never boarded, and I know many crappy incompetent docs who are boarded and think the world of themselves - they just know the tricks of taking tests. You know the type. The type that's given us a bad name. Prima Dona University Sophists - on whom we can blame the whole Board scam. No doc took "boards" in the not so distant past - just the academics - because of their dang over-competitiveness and damaged egos. Now we all pay for their folly. Why the need for an ADDITIONAL "Board cert? NO NEED! It was designed by profiteering leeches to prey on those university professor doctors with fragile egos who wanted another sheepskin on the wall to compete with their peers! This has served only to create a generic, controlled and controllable "product" out of previously free-thinking, innovative, and caring physicians of yesterday. And now the very idea of private-practice medicine - like the affordable neighborhood doc who knows his patients personally for a lifetime - is being threatened by socialized government run medicine. I hope all the hospital employed physicians and institutionalized physicians in universities are not falling into this mentality completely. For if they are we will see the rapid decay of the entire field. Perhaps we are already seeing it.
I urge a REVOLT by all the young docs out there - you are becoming a rarity and in demand - as less and less youngsters are going into medicine for these very reasons. Stand up for yourselves - go into private practice - avoid 3rd party payors - do fee for service only - and don't do the dang scam of the specialty boards! You don't need them!
And I would add The Art of Medicine is not yet completely dead. Find an innovative training program that's not yet been shut down by the ACGME / RRC - and join the AAPS (NOT the AMA who own and profit from the CPT coding system!) - and go practice the Art of Medicine for your patients and community - the way it was meant to be practiced. Free market. Good docs will do well, bad profiteering docs will fail. It's as simple as that. And with a lot less overhead, and thus savings for all. The cost of medicine / health care will half overnight if we went back to cash only / fee for service. And I believe the quality would increase exponentially, because you could then afford the time with your patients to figure out whats going on properly. No more rushing to meet your quota and keep under budget - as no more overhead of the overly complex billing and coding system. Pass the word along to the student docs. Private practice is not yet dead. The evil is not the doc - but the bureaucracy trying to control him. You don't need to be an employee. You'll be infinitely happier working for yourself with a new found freedom. Your patients will appreciate it too. People are willing to pay for quality care. I know I am.
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You know this is the pre-veterinary forum, right?
This seems like a human doc thing...
 
My cat who had an ex lap on Tuesday is still trying to give me ulcers. Wednesday morning, he started vomiting huge amounts of black, digested blood, complete with black liquid coming out of his nose (and we're not talking one or two drops), and I was absolutely certain he was going to dehis and die. Took a bunch of x-rays which made me cry a lot, but confirmed that his lungs were fine and he wasn't spilling gastric juices into his abdomen. Re-started his IV, pumped him full of IV antibiotics and antiemetics, and got the vomiting under control. Wednesday night, he got in the sink to try and lick plates and generally wreak havoc and I was THRILLED. Thursday morning he ate a little and asked for more.

Then by Thursday evening he was back to being lethargic and unhappy and sat on the floor in "sick cat" pose all night. And basically didn't move. This morning, he had a fever of 103.2. Back on IV fluids, more IV abx, and oral NSAID to try to reduce the fever.

This d**n cat better not die. He's barely over a year old. And I'm so tired from worrying about him that I can barely function.
 
At the place I'm doing my prereqs the same people do the advising for the pre-med and the pre-vet people. And since ratio is like 30:1 on the pre-med side, their knowledge is mostly focused on medical school admissions. I realized after the first 15 minutes that I was going to have to self-serve when it comes to understanding what to take, when and where to apply and what I needed to do. Yay for SDN!
 
Had to resend one of my transcripts to Edinburgh. They somehow didn't get the one from my main school but got the other one that was in the same envelope...? Whatever. Here's my exchange with the post office lady:

Lady: Oh, so are you applying to vet school?
Me: Yep, I already sent in my app but they didn't get my transcript so I'm resending it.

30 seconds later...

Lady: So are you in vet school now then?

😕
 
ckd816 said:
Had to resend one of my transcripts to Edinburgh. They somehow didn't get the one from my main school but got the other one that was in the same envelope...? Whatever. Here's my exchange with the post office lady:

Lady: Oh, so are you applying to vet school?
Me: Yep, I already sent in my app but they didn't get my transcript so I'm resending it.

30 seconds later...

Lady: So are you in vet school now then?

😕
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That sucks that they didn't get your trancript the first time, but I sure wish vet school admissions went THAT quickly. It would sure help the nerves and anxiety issues. 😛
 
ckd816 said:
Whatever. Here's my exchange with the post office lady:

Lady: Oh, so are you applying to vet school?
Me: Yep, I already sent in my app but they didn't get my transcript so I'm resending it.

30 seconds later...

Lady: So are you in vet school now then?

😕
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DVMDream and ckd816: Thank you, I needed a laugh.
 
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