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[heylodeb]

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Wide awake at 3am. Life hasn't been that great in deb-world (all outside of school stuff) and my brain has decided that not allowing me to sleep so I can stress about it all is the best way to cope. :/ great.

 

[sunshinevet]

Foxy, not giving you advice at all. You would know better than me, anyways.

My pup had the exact same thing. It never got worse, so I just watched it. Healed fine after another week. (VERY hard to keep her inactive. She was never lethargic or quiet, even Day1. Always go, go go. And she's a jumper. It was hard to keep her still)

The vet has seen the photos. Says as long as there's no pus it's fine. Bring her in for abx if pus appears.

I haven't been in a GP situation in 5+ years and haven't had a dog spayed in at least 10, so I have no idea what normal healing looks like

My rant is that the two of you have just delicious profile pictures, and it distracts me from what you're saying. And the entire thread...

 

[dyachei]

Wide awake at 3am. Life hasn't been that great in deb-world (all outside of school stuff) and my brain has decided that not allowing me to sleep so I can stress about it all is the best way to cope. :/ great.

Sorry deb. I hope you can get some of the stuff dealt with. There's nothing worse than being exhausted

 

[jmo1012]

stupid roommate just sprayed a bunch of aerosol sunscreen in our apartment and now it smells awful in here. i love breathing sunscreen fumes, not to mention that i am scent sensitive for migraines... 😡

 

[Filly Bay]

Just got a text from my mother-in-law-to-be this morning that she is lonely and wants to get a dog. She asked where we got our Poms..

She does not need or deserve a dog. When I started dating her son 6ish yrs ago, they had a shih tsu young female and a "shih tsu" older female dog. They were basically in their crates about 3/4 of the day and hardly ever let outside. Never taken for shots/vet appts. The younger one got out and they never found her, so she went and got a yorkie male pup. When he was old enough to get neutered they said they didn't want to yet despite my protests. Well, yorkie and "shih tsu" of course mated and she had pups. They didn't realize she was pregnant until she actually had the litter. My SO fell in love with one pup and decided to keep it. The others were somehow sold for way too much. Apparently people love mixed breeds these days. So this time when I said we should get the male neutered AND the female spayed to prevent a pyo...still no luck because now they realized they could make money. So two more not so well cared for litters later and I made the vet appt to get the male neutered and my SO's dog spayed. They thought the mom was not healthy enough for a spay at this point.
This summer, the mom died. Since my SO has been stuck at work since July, His dog has been staying at his mom's. I found out she got a second job and has been keeping the dogs in their crates except for about 2 hours at night. Since I'm going to be living with SOs dog and I don't want her to start getting bad behavior probs, I took her to school with me. She decided for some reason to just sell the yorkie? Fast forward about a month later...now she wants to get another dog. She doesn't have the time, money, or common sense and I don't know how to tell her that without being mean...

 

[Hotfillyky]

Wide awake at 3am. Life hasn't been that great in deb-world (all outside of school stuff) and my brain has decided that not allowing me to sleep so I can stress about it all is the best way to cope. :/ great.

I'm living that dream too....

 

[Coquette22]

Whine: For our surgery lab, we have to submit videos of us doing some suture patterns. This would be fine, except for the damn suture pads they give us. They're these annoying gel things (this thing in case anyone's wondering: http://www.rescuecritters.com/produ...nary-training/84-suture-patch-ii-transparent; I question the "greater realism" 🙄). The gel is incredibly stiff, so it's not as pliable as skin so holding open an incision to do something like an intradermal is hell. But it's still just gel, so if you don't take a big enough bite of tissue (far bigger than you would for a skin suture), you'll just pull the suture right through the gel. This is going on my course eval.

 

[Trilt]

Whine: For our surgery lab, we have to submit videos of us doing some suture patterns. This would be fine, except for the damn suture pads they give us. They're these annoying gel things (this thing in case anyone's wondering: http://www.rescuecritters.com/produ...nary-training/84-suture-patch-ii-transparent; I question the "greater realism" 🙄). The gel is incredibly stiff, so it's not as pliable as skin so holding open an incision to do something like an intradermal is hell. But it's still just gel, so if you don't take a big enough bite of tissue (far bigger than you would for a skin suture), you'll just pull the suture right through the gel. This is going on my course eval.

We had to do example sutures on a embroidery hoop with some t-shirt-esque cloth on it. It was ridiculously unrealistic... my cat stepped on one side and stretched the whole thing to almost double its initial size.

 

[Bearby]

depression sucks

 

[heylodeb]

Sorry deb. I hope you can get some of the stuff dealt with. There's nothing worse than being exhausted

I'm living that dream too....

Yup. I'm not the only one with a screwed up existent at the moment! The biggest thing is that I need to have a really tough conversation with someone that should have happened 4-5 years ago and I've let the problem grow so large that it is possible that there will be some pretty crappy consequences if it doesn't go well. I'm terrible at confrontation so instead I just let it eat my insides away instead. 🙄 Thanks for letting me vent. 😛

 

[jmo1012]

Yup. I'm not the only one with a screwed up existent at the moment! The biggest thing is that I need to have a really tough conversation with someone that should have happened 4-5 years ago and I've let the problem grow so large that it is possible that there will be some pretty crappy consequences if it doesn't go well. I'm terrible at confrontation so instead I just let it eat my insides away instead. 🙄 Thanks for letting me vent. 😛

hope it ends up making you feel better. i had to have a conversation with someone last fall about how we really could no longer be friends (something that should have happened 5 years ago but i am also non-confrontational). while i miss my friend dearly sometimes (less and less as time passes), i KNOW that was the best thing I could have done for myself and i have been so much better off.

 

[wolfspeaker]

My rant is that the two of you have just delicious profile pictures, and it distracts me from what you're saying. And the entire thread...

And DVMD, I would have been LIVID at them.

 

[orca2011]

Pretty sure I saw a squirrel with a rubber band around his neck today on my walk to school. =(

 

[wildcatj]

So my roommate really dislikes cats. I have two. One he actually gets along with, but the other doesn't like him much so roommate doesn't like the cat. They haven't really had any issues, my cat just doesn't like being around him. A few weeks ago said cat went and peed on my roommate's dirty clothes that were on his bathroom floor. There haven't been any problems since then and roommate and cat were actually getting along better. Then out of the blue cat went and peed in roommate's almost empty laundry basket that was on the floor next to the washer/dryer yesterday. All it had in it was a wool hat. He has never peed on anything other than roommate's things, no other urinary symptoms, and the two incidents have been really far apart. If it was more frequent or happens again I'll bring him to the vets to make sure it's not a medical problem, but it seems like it's just him spite peeing on the things that really smell like my roommate.

I think if my roommate tried to make friends with the cat it would probably solve the problem, but he thinks cats are just like tiny dogs that you have to be dominant over. Pretty sure he thinks if he gave in and started petting the cat it would mean he "lost" and he's totally unwilling to do that. There may be a trip to the behaviorist in our future... It just really sucks because my roommate and I get along perfectly, but I think my cat is going to mess that up.

 

[wolfspeaker]

So my roommate really dislikes cats. I have two. One he actually gets along with, but the other doesn't like him much so roommate doesn't like the cat. They haven't really had any issues, my cat just doesn't like being around him. A few weeks ago said cat went and peed on my roommate's dirty clothes that were on his bathroom floor. There haven't been any problems since then and roommate and cat were actually getting along better. Then out of the blue cat went and peed in roommate's almost empty laundry basket that was on the floor next to the washer/dryer yesterday. All it had in it was a wool hat. He has never peed on anything other than roommate's things, no other urinary symptoms, and the two incidents have been really far apart. If it was more frequent or happens again I'll bring him to the vets to make sure it's not a medical problem, but it seems like it's just him spite peeing on the things that really smell like my roommate.

I think if my roommate tried to make friends with the cat it would probably solve the problem, but he thinks cats are just like tiny dogs that you have to be dominant over. Pretty sure he thinks if he gave in and started petting the cat it would mean he "lost" and he's totally unwilling to do that. There may be a trip to the behaviorist in our future... It just really sucks because my roommate and I get along perfectly, but I think my cat is going to mess that up.

I think the roommate is the one who needs the behaviorist.

Tell him, "be nice to the cat and pet the cat, maybe even give the cat treats, or deal with the cat peeing on your things because you are ignoring the cat. Notice the cat is not peeing on MY things. Take it or leave it."

 

[that redhead]

WS- As someone who has lived with cats that are not my own that were not the best behaved (and not really a big cat person to start with) I'd be really irritated if my roommate told me to essentially deal with it. I'm not sure why they'd agree to live together if he doesn't like cats that much, but as the cat is wildcats, it's her responsibility to try to fix the problem on her end first (which it sounds like she's doing).

 

[Filly Bay]

I'm having almost the same problem with my dog and roommate! She is really good about being housebroken when we're at home and she was still great before my roommate moved in. For some reason, my dog really doesn't like my roommate (always growls at her when she walks by and cowers when she tries to pet her). She has now started to poop/pee either in my roommates room or in her bathroom. Not sure if its just a coincidence or if there is something wrong that's causing her to go in the house all of a sudden...

 

[Foxhunter]

WS- As someone who has lived with cats that are not my own that were not the best behaved (and not really a big cat person to start with) I'd be really irritated if my roommate told me to essentially deal with it. I'm not sure why they'd agree to live together if he doesn't like cats that much, but as the cat is wildcats, it's her responsibility to try to fix the problem on her end first (which it sounds like she's doing).

I agree with trh here.

Though even though the roommate shouldn't have to, maybe try a viligance thing too ie "I'm so sorry my cat is peeing on your things, there's no excuse for it and I'm trying to resolve the issue, but until it's resolved let's try to keep your bathroom and bedroom doors closed and clothing away from areas the cat could pee on them." That's what I did when my dog was completely house trained except for my roommates bedroom.

 

[wolfspeaker]

WS- As someone who has lived with cats that are not my own that were not the best behaved (and not really a big cat person to start with) I'd be really irritated if my roommate told me to essentially deal with it. I'm not sure why they'd agree to live together if he doesn't like cats that much, but as the cat is wildcats, it's her responsibility to try to fix the problem on her end first (which it sounds like she's doing).

I wrote that wrong! I meant deal with petting the cat, if it will make it stop peeing on his stuff! (that's what I get for doing 5 things at once)

How hard is it to pet the dang cat? If he had such an aversion to cats, why did he agree to room with you?

 

[DVM882029]

Feeling ridiculously dumb right now. I'm all drugged on migraine meds trying to finish my chem lab write up from last week. I literally cannot figure out how to do a diagram. Perhaps I should have put this off until tomorrow..

 

[wildcatj]

Well excellent news! I came home from studying and roommate had made up with kitty. Cat was pouting in my room all day and roommate felt bad so he went in, coaxed him out with a treat and gave him some pets. He has agreed that it would probably just be easier to start over and get on the cat's good side.

I was just frustrated because my roommate seems to get along with the other cat so well but hasn't given this one a chance. When we moved here he got a little more skiddish so he has taken a while to warm up. Then he's been trying the last few weeks and not getting a good response. Like the cat will try to sit on the couch next to roommate and roommate shoos him away. But hopefully a little attention from the roommate will prevent any future pee incidents. Roommate can be really stubborn and doesn't like to admit he's wrong, so I'm really happy he did this. Relieves a lot of stress for me.

 

[wolfspeaker]

Well excellent news! I came home from studying and roommate had made up with kitty. Cat was pouting in my room all day and roommate felt bad so he went in, coaxed him out with a treat and gave him some pets. He has agreed that it would probably just be easier to start over and get on the cat's good side.

I was just frustrated because my roommate seems to get along with the other cat so well but hasn't given this one a chance. When we moved here he got a little more skiddish so he has taken a while to warm up. Then he's been trying the last few weeks and not getting a good response. Like the cat will try to sit on the couch next to roommate and roommate shoos him away. But hopefully a little attention from the roommate will prevent any future pee incidents. Roommate can be really stubborn and doesn't like to admit he's wrong, so I'm really happy he did this. Relieves a lot of stress for me.

yay! I hope it all works out.

 

[Escalla]

Not really a rant........but I'm having a hard time being away from the ponies. 🙁 I was riding and working with multiple horses every day in UG and now I'm in the big city all the time....I really miss being out in the middle of no where with an equine friend.

Maybe tearing it up on some country roads and enjoying mountain views tonight will help. It sounds so cliché, but I always found it relaxing. Anatomy has me in knots and I wish I wasn't so stressed all the time.

 

[equineconstant]

No data back from my computer. T.T I have some backups but it's missing my whole NaNo novel from last year and all the pictures from my Asia trip this summer. Now I have to decide whether to give up and wipe the drive or pay a LOT of money to try and get it back and maybe it still won't work. Plus or minus paying a bunch of money for a new hard drive or a new laptop. I just want to have my computer back and NOT have to start it over...

 

[that redhead]

I understand we're going to be busy...but letting us know about jr surgery prepaid surgery report two days before we have to do them is not enough, especially when we have three exams this week😡 all I'm asking for is a bigger heads up...

 

[Frozenshades]

The meds are helping the anxiety I think but I still am disconcerted by all these chest pains (mostly that but other random aches around too). I know the doctor said everything sounded fine...but still, my blood pressure has been a little high and I often am finding myself paying attention to my heart pounding. I'm moderately loosing my mind trying to deal with this anxiety and believe that nothing is wrong with me, even though from a logical standpoint I really don't think there is. I guess I'm doing better than last week though, could actually pay attention in class today.

 

[orca2011]

Didn't get much sleep last night and feel like I might not be getting a whole lot tonight. Need to study a little bit for an exam on Wednesday and PGW (gas company) is outside drilling through the freaking sidewalk to do god knows what.

 

[BlackDog17]

Feeling terrible for all of my government-employed friends. I know so many people in the military, the USDA, the FDA, working on government research projects, etc, etc. Suddenly my Facebook is flooded with posts from intelligent hardworking people who are scared that they won't be able to afford groceries, gas, rent, or any other basic needs in the coming weeks. I'm so worried for all of them. 🙁

And meanwhile, Congress is still pulling down their usual three-figure salaries.

 

[DVMDream]

Life. That is all.

 

[primatevetjess]

Simon (my beloved 11.5 year old tuxedo) has an oncology appointment this morning. A mass diagnosed as a lipoma two years ago has suddenly tripled in size and changed in character.

I tossed and turned all night with dreams of an awful cancer diagnosis. And this is my busiest and most stressful week of work so far.

I feel like I'm about to explode. Or implode, more likely.

 

[wildcatj]

Simon (my beloved 11.5 year old tuxedo) has an oncology appointment this morning. A mass diagnosed as a lipoma two years ago has suddenly tripled in size and changed in character.

I tossed and turned all night with dreams of an awful cancer diagnosis. And this is my busiest and most stressful week of work so far.

I feel like I'm about to explode. Or implode, more likely.

Crossing my fingers for you.

 

[Trilt]

I really want to keep my surgery doggy. 🙁

 

[wldlfstdnt]

Oh! Hello sore throat. Thanks for showing up two days before a test.

 

[DVMDream]

Oh! Hello sore throat. Thanks for showing up two days before a test.

I have one of those too, starting to think it may be strep..

 

[jmo1012]

i get so irritated when people ask questions in the last minute of class (literally) or even when the 50 minutes of class are over. ask them personally! i dont want to get stuck listening to you when my class time is over.

even better, love that our class rep had the audacity to call people who left when class was over rude because other students had questions. no. class was already over and the students who were raising their hands to ask questions instead of just asking the professor right after class privately (which we do all the time) were being rude and disrespectful. 😡

 

[cowgirla]

Cannot find a freaking pair of coveralls that fit and it's really starting to tick me off. this is not supposed to be this hard. I'm not -that- weirdly built lol
Found a pair of lined ones that fit semi well a while ago, so I bought them. but I'm tired of sweating and I really need more than one pair. So the hunt began and is about to end unsuccessfully.

Pella's size small could have fit three of me in it width wise and were about a foot too long They do have an XS in a different style but after paying $12 in shipping and then having to return them (another $12 shipping + a restocking fee), I can't afford to buy them without knowing for sure if they will fit..Carharrt doesn't have an unlined overall for women that I can find, but I have their lined ones that fit relatively well except for length. Have tried on a bunch of others at various farm supply stores and no luck. The men's styles that are small enough up top and length wise are so tight in the hips that I'm afraid of busting a seam while calf-wrangling. I found a few styles that may have possibly worked with the exception of being about a foot too long, and of course they all have fancy zippers and crap on the legs so I can't even hem them easily. Ugh.

 

[remi4301]

So found out today that Orgo Lab II is offered in a super condensed format in the spring, which means that I'll be in lab 2 days a week for 5 hours each day. Wouldn't be a big deal except that I have a full load to take also! Why do they do that? How do I manage to take my other classes at the same time??? Arrrggghhhh!!!!!!

 

[Frozenshades]

i get so irritated when people ask questions in the last minute of class (literally) or even when the 50 minutes of class are over. ask them personally! i dont want to get stuck listening to you when my class time is over.

even better, love that our class rep had the audacity to call people who left when class was over rude because other students had questions. no. class was already over and the students who were raising their hands to ask questions instead of just asking the professor right after class privately (which we do all the time) were being rude and disrespectful. 😡

That is so frustrating. Buddy, I really don't care about your back and forth with the prof on the intricacies of high energy particle transport through mitochondrial membranes. I have 10 minutes to take a leak and get coffee before the next class and I will end your existence if you ruin that.

Just ask later (write it down if you need to) or send them a stupid email.

 

[TooLove]

Let's talk about all the ways we can possibly fail out of the program a week before our first midterm which is the first test we will have had all semester. Fabulous.

 

[Lab Rat83]

Let's talk about all the ways we can possibly fail out of the program a week before our first midterm which is the first test we will have had all semester. Fabulous.

Is that what I missed this morning? I saw on the schedule that there was no class and we were expected to go to something else instead. My sleep needs trumped.

 

[TooLove]

Is that what I missed this morning? I saw on the schedule that there was no class and we were expected to go to something else instead. My sleep needs trumped.

Yep. It was a tad stress inducing.

 

[Frozenshades]

Huge storm this early morning/very late last night.

The one time I accidentally left my car windows open.

Wet and cold studying slides in lab.

Dropped my CVM ID and key card somewhere this morning on my way to school. Hoping it's in my car otherwise it probably got washed away in the parking lot.

Death by microanatomy exam tomorrow morning.

Oh my god.

 

[psilovethomas]

Huge storm this early morning/very late last night.

The one time I accidentally left my car windows open.

Wet and cold studying slides in lab.

Dropped my CVM ID and key card somewhere this morning on my way to school. Hoping it's in my car otherwise it probably got washed away in the parking lot.

Death by microanatomy exam tomorrow morning.

Oh my god.

I am OCD about my car windows/ moon roof being closed.

My hamster really is not doing well. He has abdominal effusion probably due to neoplastic mass or amyloidosis. He has been breathing harder, but not open mouth breathing. I ausculted him and found some wheezing. I just don't know what to do. He is eating, sleeping, drinking, but he has definitely slowed down recently. I made an appointment to put him to sleep. Next Tuesday. My heart is breaking. :cry: I stayed up all night crying. And still am crying. I have an exam in an hour. 🙁

 

[that redhead]

Look, surgery group member number 3. I was merely irked before - now I'm mad. You say you can't be surgeon one week because of something and that your lawyer booked an appointment with you without notifying you the other week. So you have so graciously volunteered for the two weeks that we have surgery where we have the smallest workload ALL SEMESTER. October is a block of exam/paper/quizzes/etc hell and November has one midterm the whole time. And then you have to conveniently leave immediately after all labs to let your puppy out, so your other group members get stuck doing all of the clean up well into our lunch break. And yes, to be petty: your SOAPs were the ones with multiple problems.

😡😡😡

 

[ky261682]

3 slides in 30 minutes...seriously? This prof is killing me. I'd skip but we have lab after. So ridiculous and frustrating.

 

[Coquette22]

3 slides in 30 minutes...seriously? This prof is killing me. I'd skip but we have lab after. So ridiculous and frustrating.

I like him a lot, as he was my mentor for the summer. But yeah, I couldn't deal with his lectures. I don't think I paid a whole lot of attention. 😳

Rant: I feel like crap (PMS headache, tired, stressed), I have a midterm tomorrow that I still need to study for tonight, and I hate surgery lab. The right hand never seems to know what the left hand is doing. More specifically, the surgeons there to help us never seem to know what the coordinator wants. We had a "mass excision" lab today, meaning removing silicone lumps from cadavers. The lab handout said we'd be doing an FNA, a Tru-Cut biopsy and a wedge biopsy before the removal. Then we were to ink the margins and submit it for "histopath' and include the histopath report with our surgery report tomorrow. Well, there ws nothing submitted for histopath. The surgeons didn't know we were supposed to be doing biopsies. The pre-lab quiz stressed doing a 4:1 ratio to make it easier/prettier to close, the surgeons said forget that, just cut and adjust later if you need to. And we have to get skills signed off, so if a surgeon saw you do a skill today, you now have the fun of trying to track them down before Wednesay to sign off. Why they didn't just sign today, I don't know.

I'm tired and bitchy.

 

[BlackDog17]

Is that what I missed this morning? I saw on the schedule that there was no class and we were expected to go to something else instead. My sleep needs trumped.

You didn't miss much. To sum up: be a professional, don't act like an idiot, try not to fail.

I'm mad that I wasted an hour of my life on that lecture. I wish they'd actually told us it was optional.

 

[Lab Rat83]

Don't act like an idiot........Like ever?

 

[Abnerrs]

Don't act like an idiot........Like ever?

Yeah don't let that worry you too much. I act like an idiot all the time.

 

[BlackDog17]

Don't act like an idiot........Like ever?

Mostly the message was "If you go out and do something stupid like getting a DUI, it comes out in the newspapers that you are an AVC student and then it reflects badly on everyone." Like I said, you really didn't miss much.