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I can sense a full moon approaching.

Yes, the reason your dog has open and infected sores around his neck is because you snugly placed an electronic collar around his neck sometime around November and did not remove it until last night. No, you should not have tied a soaking wet towel around it and left it for 12 hours. Yes you should have brought him in sooner, and quite frankly I'm amazed you managed to live through the stench for so long.

On to number two. Yes, you probably should not have declined radiographs 2 months ago but now that your dogs chest look like a mess of 100 year old cobwebs you now have a decision to make. Oh, and by the way he coughed up about a cup of bloody mucous while we had him in back. That's been going on for a week and you didn't feel like it was relevant? Hmm.. But hey, why don't you take him home with no meds and no plan. Awesome.

Oh, your geriatric dog has been biting since it was a puppy? I guess it wasn't a problem up until now. No, we don't have any magical pills to stop that. You should take him to a trainer. No this isn't going to be an overnight fix. Shocking, I know. Hey, I heard that distemperment vaccine works wonders for angry dogs...

And those were the highlights of the day.


End rant.
 
Podiatry doesn't have a rant thread. Can I barrow yours? 🙂
 
ShibaMom said:
I would really try to rise above this and not have a chip on your shoulder re: her reaction. Turning the other cheek is difficult, but it's better than giving her the satisfaction that her nasty comments are getting to you.

Something similar occurred when I applied to school. When I interviewed at my job as a kennel tech I told the doctor and my supervisor that I was planning on applying. Both of them gave me a lukewarm response, which left me with the feeling that they didn't believe that I could do it. It immediately made me feel discounted and relegated to the kennel, where all good little kennel techs belong. However, I superseded their expectations hardcore^n+1. One doctor, out of the four-doctor practice, was genuinely elated for me, one other was quiet, another was mildly interested and the senior vet/owner of the practice was meh.

Now, I knew the senior doctor had a lot on his plate so I got the feeling that his congratulations would be very brief (and they were). The others, I knew, were very absorbed in their work and I didn't expect or get much from them. The person who seemed to really have a problem with it was my immediate supervisor. Following acceptance she immediately emailed me on Facebook asking when I was leaving. Note, I was accepted in January and I wasn't planning on leaving until July but when she immediately went into shutdown, you're-not-gonna-work-here-for-much-longer-so-why-should-I make-the-effort mode work became almost unbearable. My boyfriend and I racked our brains as to why she would react like this and they only things that we could think of were envy and jealousy because I was going places and she was stuck as a kennel manager. Never did I rub it in anyone's face at the clinic that I had gotten accepted, and in fact I only told a handful of people, but she acted like I was no longer useful to her so I removed myself from a toxic situation.

If the positive of working at the clinic outweighs the negative aspects the doctor brings I say stay. We could sit here and extrapolate why she is being so nasty: maybe she got rejected from Scotland, maybe she's jealous that you get to have fun, maybe she's got problems at home, maybe she's just a bitter cow. Who knows. I think that the important thing is to not let her get out down. My theory is that there are some people out there who cannot be happy until they bring everyone else down to their level. They see someone who is going to get ahead in their life and all they want to do is poo-poo it.

Surround yourself with happy, positive people, take to heart the opinions of those who love you and have your best interests at heart. Away with those negative souls, and rejoice in your early acceptance. Congratulations!
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Thank you for the advice and your personal story! My plan was to work until July for her but with the recent events I have decided to stay until May. While I can be the bigger person and turn a blind eye to her actions and comments, I won't be treated so disrespectfully anymore. I'm going to enjoy my last summer before vet school with my loved ones and friends 🙂
 
Ivy jumped onto my stomach when she went after the cats to play. That was an hour ago and it still hurts. She's too big to do that. Haha

And then one of the cats decided to play with my foot so there's scratches on the bottom of my right foot.

Not the best way to wake up in the morning. :laugh:
 
We got sleet and freezing rain all night last night. It is still coming down. Everything around campus is closed including Stillwater Public Schools and a community college that shares a campus with OSU. Of course OSU is still open. I live 40 miles north of Stillwater. No way is my pregnant butt getting behind the wheel on this ice. I'm hoping the roads clear up by this afternoon so that I can make it to clinics. My classmates that live near campus are having trouble just getting out of their apartment complexes. They should at least be starting late to give the temp time to warm up a little.
 
Lissarae06 said:
We got sleet and freezing rain all night last night. It is still coming down. Everything around campus is closed including Stillwater Public Schools and a community college that shares a campus with OSU. Of course OSU is still open. I live 40 miles north of Stillwater. No way is my pregnant butt getting behind the wheel on this ice. I'm hoping the roads clear up by this afternoon so that I can make it to clinics. My classmates that live near campus are having trouble just getting out of their apartment complexes. They should at least be starting late to give the temp time to warm up a little.
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My little car was a trooper getting to the clinic this morning. We had ~5 inches of snow accumulated. I even made it through the snow plow bank without getting stuck! I 😍 my eclipse!!!!! I'm thinking it's going to be a quiet day though, perfect way to spend my birthday :hardy: I think it's a good decision for you to take the day off.
 
Note to self (and SDN apparently),
Don't ever decide a Thursday is a good time to try and sleep off a migraine.
It's lawn maintenance day. 😡
I struggled for 20 minutes about whether I should go back to sleep to miss class, and this is how it pays off. Cool. 😎
 
Lupin21 said:
My little car was a trooper getting to the clinic this morning. We had ~5 inches of snow accumulated. I even made it through the snow plow bank without getting stuck! I 😍 my eclipse!!!!! I'm thinking it's going to be a quiet day though, perfect way to spend my birthday :hardy: I think it's a good decision for you to take the day off.
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I could handle snow. We have ice instead. And people here don't know how to drive in it. I'm more concerned about someone running into me or running me off the road than I am sliding around on my own.
 
Lissarae06 said:
I could handle snow. We have ice instead. And people here don't know how to drive in it. I'm more concerned about someone running into me or running me off the road than I am sliding around on my own.
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Ice + bad drivers + 40 miles = :scared: = Lissa not going anywhere!!! Maybe you can just cook all day making things from the recipe thread 😀
 
Emiloo4 said:
Note to self (and SDN apparently),
Don't ever decide a Thursday is a good time to try and sleep off a migraine.
It's lawn maintenance day. 😡
I struggled for 20 minutes about whether I should go back to sleep to miss class, and this is how it pays off. Cool. 😎
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I have this debate with myself on occasion and by the time I'm done deciding I'm too awake to go back to sleep :laugh:
 
Also, my rant. I don't know what is wrong with me! I'm so tired all the time. I wake up so groggy it feels like I had sleep meds on board the night before. I just can not feel rested no matter how long I sleep.
 
Lissarae06 said:
We got sleet and freezing rain all night last night.
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It just got to eastern Missouri about twenty minutes ago. Like it ARRIVED. Instantly. Weird. Its massive snow clusters mixed with ice/sleet stuff. My university jumped ship just in time, I would be leaving right now otherwise!

Very lucky since I'm still writing a ten page paper due in two hours.... And lucky that I don't have to go anywhere except down my front yard to feed my ponies. Bless everyone who doesn't have that option.
 
Abney said:
Also, my rant. I don't know what is wrong with me! I'm so tired all the time. I wake up so groggy it feels like I had sleep meds on board the night before. I just can not feel rested no matter how long I sleep.
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I sense a theme among pre-vet and vet students ... most of us seem to have sleep troubles :shrug:
 
Abney said:
Also, my rant. I don't know what is wrong with me! I'm so tired all the time. I wake up so groggy it feels like I had sleep meds on board the night before. I just can not feel rested no matter how long I sleep.
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Have you had your thyroid checked recently? You might want to see a doctor about it if it's been going on for awhile.
 
Abney said:
Also, my rant. I don't know what is wrong with me! I'm so tired all the time. I wake up so groggy it feels like I had sleep meds on board the night before. I just can not feel rested no matter how long I sleep.
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Exact same problem.

Tried a naturopathic doctor because I felt like I was getting know where with family doctors. One theory was B-12 deficiency. One injection perked me right up. I am going for my second one tonight.

Apparently a lot of people are B-12 deficient and it does not really present itself well in bloodwork.
 
Abney said:
Also, my rant. I don't know what is wrong with me! I'm so tired all the time. I wake up so groggy it feels like I had sleep meds on board the night before. I just can not feel rested no matter how long I sleep.
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You and me both. Although, I did have my thyroid checked years ago and was tested for anemia. Should probably get rechecked but eh.




My rant; just found out my physio exam is only 24 MC questions...
 
On the topic, and also a rant.

The doctor got a hold of the bloodwork that I had done in November.

My thyroid is borderline low on top of this. I also had bacteria in my urine and my good and bad cholesterol were a little high and low at the time.

One: how come a doctor has NEVER gone over my bloodwork with me until now?

Two: Why did it take 2 years and a couple of different doctors to figure this stuff out???

I have a feeling my thyroid might have gotten worse (my skin is worse this winter than it has ever been). I should get more bloodwork done. Do I go back to my family doctor who did not call me about the bloodwork and who thought this was all neurological?

I keep thinking that maybe if I did not feel like crap, I would have done better my last two years of school and got an interview for vet school.
 
Trematode said:
On the topic, and also a rant.

The doctor got a hold of the bloodwork that I had done in November.

My thyroid is borderline low on top of this. I also had bacteria in my urine and my good and bad cholesterol were a little high and low at the time.

One: how come a doctor has NEVER gone over my bloodwork with me until now?

Two: Why did it take 2 years and a couple of different doctors to figure this stuff out???

I have a feeling my thyroid might have gotten worse (my skin is worse this winter than it has ever been). I should get more bloodwork done. Do I go back to my family doctor who did not call me about the bloodwork and who thought this was all neurological?

I keep thinking that maybe if I did not feel like crap, I would have done better my last two years of school and got an interview for vet school.
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I would say don't go back to a doctor with whom you are not satisfied. Your health is important and you should be able to trust that your physicians are being as thorough and interactive as possible.
 
So the university and the vet school decided not to call off class until 1 pm, in the middle of the freaking storm. I actually went to school because we were supposed to have a quiz today, and it was only after I got there that they announced it was going to be open tomorrow as well, and that they understood about the weather and the quiz would be open long enough for everyone to take it (or maybe they will make it accessible from home!).

I decided to leave campus after my 11 o'clock class. Got to my car at about 5 after noon, cleared it off (we had at least 7 inches of accumulation by that time), and drove home. I got home (less than 3 miles away) in 2 hours with probably half a dozen laws broken, but whatevs. My little Civic got me most of the way home without getting stuck to the point of needing help (I did get stuck twice on campus but was able to get out both times). Honestly, I didn't even make it home. I only made it to my street, where as soon as my car hit the un-plowed, un-driven 8+ inches of snow, it just stopped. Fortunately some neighbors rescued me with their shovel and got me parked about 3 houses down.

In the midst of driving, I got a text from the university saying that classes are canceled for the rest of the day. I also got an email from an administrator at the vet school saying that our classes are canceled too. I feel bad that the first years had class this afternoon.

When I went out and measured, the snow was 10 inches deep on the back porch and 9 inches deep in the backyard.

Why the heck did I go to school today??? I'm very grumpy.

Oh, and my husband didn't even make it a half a mile from the med school before his car got stuck. He actually left it there for 2.5 hours before trying to get it out again. He got it out and made it back to the parking garage and is sleeping at the freaking hospital tonight.

Good job Mizzou. You've really won over your professional students with this one.
 
scb44f said:
So the university and the vet school decided not to call off class until 1 pm, in the middle of the freaking storm. I actually went to school because we were supposed to have a quiz today, and it was only after I got there that they announced it was going to be open tomorrow as well, and that they understood about the weather and the quiz would be open long enough for everyone to take it (or maybe they will make it accessible from home!).

I decided to leave campus after my 11 o'clock class. Got to my car at about 5 after noon, cleared it off (we had at least 7 inches of accumulation by that time), and drove home. I got home (less than 3 miles away) in 2 hours with probably half a dozen laws broken, but whatevs. My little Civic got me most of the way home without getting stuck to the point of needing help (I did get stuck twice on campus but was able to get out both times). Honestly, I didn't even make it home. I only made it to my street, where as soon as my car hit the un-plowed, un-driven 8+ inches of snow, it just stopped. Fortunately some neighbors rescued me with their shovel and got me parked about 3 houses down.

In the midst of driving, I got a text from the university saying that classes are canceled for the rest of the day. I also got an email from an administrator at the vet school saying that our classes are canceled too. I feel bad that the first years had class this afternoon.

When I went out and measured, the snow was 10 inches deep on the back porch and 9 inches deep in the backyard.

Why the heck did I go to school today??? I'm very grumpy.

Oh, and my husband didn't even make it a half a mile from the med school before his car got stuck. He actually left it there for 2.5 hours before trying to get it out again. He got it out and made it back to the parking garage and is sleeping at the freaking hospital tonight.

Good job Mizzou. You've really won over your professional students with this one.
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Oh deaaar .. Hopefully snow like that doesn't happen very often!!! I'm not ready for 10 inches of snow!!!
 
Kpowell14 said:
Oh deaaar .. Hopefully snow like that doesn't happen very often!!! I'm not ready for 10 inches of snow!!!
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Don't worry! It's definitely NOT the norm! The last storm that was so bad class was canceled was 2 years ago. Unfortunately, Columbia got 18 inches then, but it didn't hit in the middle of the day so no one was out in the yuck already.
 
scb44f said:
Don't worry! It's definitely NOT the norm! The last storm that was so bad class was canceled was 2 years ago. Unfortunately, Columbia got 18 inches then, but it didn't hit in the middle of the day so no one was out in the yuck already.
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Haha ok Good!! Lol
 
Some times I think my roommate is like "OMG the house is clean I wonder how that happened its like magic" *la di da* I've lived with him for almost 8 months and hes NEVER once vacuumed, mopped, dusted or at least straightened up. His clean the kitchen is throwing everything in the sink and leaving sauce on the counter. Oh but he comments when I leave the pots on the stove for the night cause leaving them in the sink is way more acceptable. We have like no counter space and he leaves his bread loafs out or his sack of potatoes or onions. I put them in the pantry and hes like I forget I have them and then they go bad. I wanted to shoot back and go you never eat at home anyway but he stocks up on everything. There isnt a damn inch of the freezer that isn't full.

Anyway I weeded our front garden, trimmed back the plants and fluffed the mulch today in front of our town home and he didn't say a word. I watched him walk up the sidewalk and look at it because the difference in quite obvious.

He will also comment that the floor needs moped but he wont do it. 😡

How about after I bust my ass cleaning this place, I deep clean once a month and spot clean weekly or completely clean up the front, I at least get a hey the place looks nice. Is that to much to ask?? No I think he thinks some fairy comes and does it.
 
Boyfriend says "You're going out too much, stay home tonight."

FINE, I'll stay home instead of going to lessons I've already paid for and a band practice that I should have really been to after getting chewed out for not going last week.

Then he doesn't pay any attention to me the whole effing night. GRRRRRR
 
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My first day - not even my first day but my first general training - and I'm already absolutely in love. How am I going to handle working as a youth mentor in the upcoming kitten season when I can't even keep my heart from desperately falling for the adults? :laugh:
 
Abney said:
I drank a rockstar and it did jack for me. I just want to sleep for days. I'm so, so run down today.
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I second(or eighth?) going to the doctor and getting bloodwork done, but in the meantime: Go to your local drugstore, walmart, etc and pick up a bottle of 3 mg Melatonin tablets. It could be you are not getting enough REM sleep and this could help in the interim. You will need at minimum 5 hours sleep if you take it. Works for me and I've had sleep problems and exhaustion all my life(I generally wake up every 2 hours or so, so can't get enough REM sleep). And make sure you are taking multivitamins!
 
wolfspeaker said:
I second(or eighth?) going to the doctor and getting bloodwork done, but in the meantime: Go to your local drugstore, walmart, etc and pick up a bottle of 3 mg Melatonin tablets. It could be you are not getting enough REM sleep and this could help in the interim. You will need at minimum 5 hours sleep if you take it. Works for me and I've had sleep problems and exhaustion all my life(I generally wake up every 2 hours or so, so can't get enough REM sleep). And make sure you are taking multivitamins!
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I have 5mg melatonin actually. And per my NP I take that in conjunction with valerian root. But it only works for about 2-3 hours. I don't take vitamins though. Sigh
 
Abney said:
I have 5mg melatonin actually. And per my NP I take that in conjunction with valerian root. But it only works for about 2-3 hours. I don't take vitamins though. Sigh
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:slap: I felt amazingly better less than 1 week after starting a vitamin regimen. And has helped my depression immensely.

I used to be at the point where I could not get myself to get out of bed. I would sleep for 20 hours, 3-4 days in a row. It was bad.
 
Anyone else think it's ridiculous that some people haven't heard anything WHATSOEVER from Penn yet? It is bizarre how they do their applications "in batches" so some people are accepted and rejected before others are even interviewed. It is late February and I had 2 interviews early this month. I have written off Penn because I haven't heard anything and they are kind of rude when you call ("look at the e-mail we sent you in late November.").
Of course I will still probably go to an interview, but it is just insane to make people wait this long.
 
iatrest said:
Anyone else think it's ridiculous that some people haven't heard anything WHATSOEVER from Penn yet? It is bizarre how they do their applications "in batches" so some people are accepted and rejected before others are even interviewed. It is late February and I had 2 interviews early this month. I have written off Penn because I haven't heard anything and they are kind of rude when you call ("look at the e-mail we sent you in late November.").
Of course I will still probably go to an interview, but it is just insane to make people wait this long.
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Honestly, not really. Several other schools don't let you know until later either. They might not do interviews, but you're still waiting until March for answer either way.
 
Anesthesia midterm sucked. Everything I thought I knew about induction drugs? Yeah, she asked everything else. Luckily it's only 40% of the grade for that class, so I can redeem myself on the lab exam and the final, which isn't cumulative.

On to studying for medicine, clin path, and surgery for next week.
 
Coquette22 said:
Anesthesia midterm sucked. Everything I thought I knew about induction drugs? Yeah, she asked everything else. Luckily it's only 40% of the grade for that class, so I can redeem myself on the lab exam and the final, which isn't cumulative.

On to studying for medicine, clin path, and surgery for next week.
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You can do this! I know today is a very rough day for you and I admire how you push through everything and get things done.
 
Coquette22 said:
Anesthesia midterm sucked. Everything I thought I knew about induction drugs? Yeah, she asked everything else. Luckily it's only 40% of the grade for that class, so I can redeem myself on the lab exam and the final, which isn't cumulative.

On to studying for medicine, clin path, and surgery for next week.
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My physio midterm also sucked, so you're not alone. It was only 24 questions and I already know of two I definitely got wrong. Luckily, its only 14% of our grade and i did okay on the first one.
 
I want to rant about this stupid online pre-req course I paid $1600.00 for, that I needed for some schools, but not for the three I got into... So, now I am stuck with no motivation to finish the course because I don't need it for the schools I got into.... And I'm also stuck with the 1600.00 debt that I could have used to pay for other things. UGHHH LDSHKSJDLKSJDSDJK


😡 :diebanana: :boom:

Rant over, back to studying for said course....Carry on folks 🙂
 
cs5910 said:
I want to rant about this stupid online pre-req course I paid $1600.00 for, that I needed for some schools, but not for the three I got into... So, now I am stuck with no motivation to finish the course because I don't need it for the schools I got into.... And I'm also stuck with the 1600.00 debt that I could have used to pay for other things. UGHHH LDSHKSJDLKSJDSDJK


😡 :diebanana: :boom:

Rant over, back to studying for said course....Carry on folks 🙂
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Is it a course you could get exempt from if you're schools do that? I also took a course that I ended up not really needing because I didnt get into any of the schools that required it. Good thing is that now I don't have to take that course next semester.
 
cs5910 said:
I want to rant about this stupid online pre-req course I paid $1600.00 for, that I needed for some schools, but not for the three I got into... So, now I am stuck with no motivation to finish the course because I don't need it for the schools I got into.... And I'm also stuck with the 1600.00 debt that I could have used to pay for other things. UGHHH LDSHKSJDLKSJDSDJK


😡 :diebanana: :boom:

Rant over, back to studying for said course....Carry on folks 🙂
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I signed up for two courses this semester that were non-science pre-requisites. I did not get into those schools that required them. *shakes fist at Intermediate Composition*
 
cs5910 said:
I want to rant about this stupid online pre-req course I paid $1600.00 for, that I needed for some schools, but not for the three I got into... So, now I am stuck with no motivation to finish the course because I don't need it for the schools I got into.... And I'm also stuck with the 1600.00 debt that I could have used to pay for other things. UGHHH LDSHKSJDLKSJDSDJK


😡 :diebanana: :boom:

Rant over, back to studying for said course....Carry on folks 🙂
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What in the world did you pay $1600 for an online class for? What class is it? 😱
 
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