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Hi, my name is Heather. I'm a 4th year vet student. 4th year... hard to believe! Time flies.

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Radiology
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Food Animal In-house
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Orthopedic Surgery
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Soft Tissue Surgery
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Pet Health
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Anesthesia
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Diagnostic Medicine
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QUOTES

Even in medicine, though it is easy to know what honey, wine and hellebore, cautery and surgery are, to know how and to whom and when to apply them so as to effect a cure is no less an undertaking than to be a [veterinarian].

Aristotle, 384-322 BC

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Mariah Carey, CPB (crazy psycho bitch)

Keep your wits about you.

Dr. Wally Cash, DVM

Work twice as hard and expect half as much.

Dr. Dan's Dad, both DVMs

Don't be screwin' around, you don't have the genetic potential.

What Dr. Dan's Dad said to Dr. Dan when he went to college.

I'd rather have a terrorist standing next to me than a Frenchman. (~15 min. later) Oh, I forgot about that, that's another reason I don't like the French, they eat horses.

Dr. Dee Griffin, DVM

In the book of life there's only two women, big ol' good ones and good ol' big ones.

Ice Cube, HipHopper

A virus can be useful to a species by thinning it out.

Dr. Karl Johnson, MD

Be a virus and travel the World! Free of ticket!

Dr. Sanjay Kapil, DVM

Now you can either stand around here eatin' jambalaya or you can come upstairs and eat my ass!

Brian Kinney, QAF Hottie!

I'm a McGriddle away from this being the best morning of my life.

Artie Lang, OCCG (overweight comedian, compulsive gambler)

Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter, CFB

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

Marion Levy Jr, PhD

It's better to burp and bear the shame than not to burp and bear the pain.

Grandpa Martin, RIP

Well, I want to try everything in life.

When I gotta poop, I gotta poop.

Heather Rose Martin, CFG (crazy freak girl)

It gets right ugly.

Dr. Patricia A. Payne, DVM

If the present sucks, then look to the future.

I'm just here to be a person.

Rob Reed, Brainiac

If you eat your dog, make sure it is well cooked.

Peter Schantz, DVM Division of Parasitic Diseases CDC

Inch by inch life's a cinch, yard by yard life gets hard.

Dr. Steve Swaim, DVM

Think about it. Sometimes people are just destined, destined to do, what they do. And that's what it is. Now everybody dance.

Justin Timberlake, Hottie!

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Wednesday, 22 March 2006



Man did my day take a quick turn

The morning started out pretty slow. No new lambs so I was just feeding some of the ones born yesterday and trying to get them to learn how to take the nipples in their crates on their own so they don't need to be bottle-fed anymore. Then I went over to the lambing barn but no one was lambing. They told me this was the end of their lambing and I probably didn't come at a good time but that's how my school has it scheduled so I guess they should think about changing the dates. Didn't do much at the lambing barn except pull a dead lamb.

Then it was lunch and I brought my own this time so no ham or pickled eggs. After lunch I stayed w/ the lambs in the nursery showing them the nipples trying to get them to figure it out. Then someone came to get me to take me to necropsy. I thought that meant we were doing necropsies but I walked in and there was a sheep strapped to the table and 2 vets were prepping her for a caesarean section. I've never done one before and someone I was the one doing it. I felt like a retard. It sucked. Somehow I got it done but the 3 lambs we pulled were all dead, though we knew this before the surgery, and it was a pretty contaminated surgery so I don't feel confident the ewe will survive. She was alive when they took her out of necropsy so I hope not to see her again in necropsy. That'll mean she's dead. I normally wear a glove size of 6.5 or 7 but to suture the body wall and skin I was wearing 8.5s. They were so huge and getting in my way and making me look retarded suturing. That's how my day turned. I had no idea I was walking into a c-section. Now I want another one to try and do better.

Now I'm done just watching TV and eating junk, washing clothes. I got an email back from my air date guy but I finally saw a picture of him and I was reminded of what 44 years old looks like and I think I'm going to change my mind and not meet. I now it's harmless and something just to do but I think I will chicken out.

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Posted: Mar 22, 2006 17:54

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Jenn wrote at :

That's kind of funny, yeah 44 year olds probably don't really look like 31 year olds, right? That's too bad about the c-section. Nothing like a surprise surgery.

heather martian wrote at :

I'm just trying to be grown-up and expand my dating pool from people my age and up to 2 years older to include more of an age range. Some 44 year olds look fine maybe but this guy's picture just made 44 look grown-up and old. I'm not ready for that yet, especially if people think I'm 24 and I act like I'm 12. Well the c-section ewe wasn't in necropsy today so she's still alive for now.

Rob Reed wrote at :

I would say that you shouldn't expand your age too much. 44 is too old. Find someone in their 30s. When you get to Boston and finally start settling into some sort of normality you'll be fine.

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