The real world..

More like the real working world of my profession..

Started my very first day of internship on Monday.. which was hmm.. pretty hard to describe.
Fun, exciting, nervous, intimidating, tired..

It was pretty crazy on the first day itself.. my learning curve was like nearly 90 degrees, and I learnt so so so much.. and having a good memory of all that I've learnt for the past 4 years would be really really helpful as well!

We (See Yang and me) were asked to do a consultation on our very first day there! Thank goodness I had See Yang there with me, so it wasn't THAT bad.. yeah but still..
A consultation involves a simple introduction of yourself, obtaining history from the owner, and a physical examination.Our first patient for consultation was a Staffy (staffordshire bull terrier). His owner brought him in because of aggression problems... haha, thank GOD that he was really really friendly to the both of us. It went pretty well, for our very first consult! We get to do 90% of the consults that come in everyday.. So I'm pretty confident in doing a consult myself now! Did a few by myself today! You get to meet all types of funny and cute patients, as well as the different types of owners as well!

On Tuesday, I scrubbed in with the head of the clinic into a orthopaedic surgery to correct a german sheperd's hind leg. It was pretty exciting, as it was my first time watching a surgery in front of me eyes.. but it was tiring as well, as the surgery lasted for nearly 3 hours.. and I was just standing there, with my hands raised in front of me to maintain sterility. Well, I did help a tiny little bit, like flushing and sucking up blood.. lol

Next, to wednesday! We spend wednesdays at the spey clinic where we just spey and castrate animals all day long. I had my very first spey and castration! with some supervision of course.. The castration was on a german sheperd, and it was pretty easy and non invasive. The spey was on a dalmatian, and as a first timer, it wasn't easy to look for the uterus and the ovaries! But I guess it gets very easy after I get familiar with the abdominal organs.All went well, and it felt really good to see her recover back to her lively and bright self afterwards! I really do hope that there are no complications involved in her minor surgery!
Below is a pic of the spey and the patient:

The person looking at you is my anaesthetist, Suzanna ( a fellow student intern) and I'm right behind her, paying full attention on my patient.. The person in blue is See Yang, admiring my surgical skills.. and the person on the far left is my supervisor.

That's my patient recovering well from her surgery and the anaesthetics!

Cool aye? Yeah, definitely!!
But it's really tiring though, with the long hours and stuff.. I work from 8 to 5 pm, and till 6.30pm on tuesdays and thursdays. And I have to be on call every alternate day and weekend. When I'm on call, I have to return back to the clinic at 8pm for afterhours treatment, and yea.. if there are any emergencies (touch wood), I get called back to the clinic. And I also need to study at night after that, to make sure I know my stuff the next day, or to answer some quizzes that my supervisors give us.

Yeah, thats that.. It's not so bad now that I've got the hang of it! Yup.. Sorry if I sounded like I'm all over the place in this post.. there's just a lot of stuff to tell you guys about, and I'm feeling a bit tired as well.. and it's just 10.35 pm, gosh..

So yea.. Till then peeps! God bless ya!