It's about time that they initiate us students into the veterinary program! Today was very cold and I had a dissection lab where I dissected a lamb from the uterus and dissected the lamb once removed. Afterwards, there was a 4 hour break until our practical. We took the bus to Langhill Farm where there were many cows waiting for us...
We walked into the teaching shed and they proceeded to discuss the uterus of the cow and palpating the cervix and uterine horns and ovaries. How do you palpate for the uterus you ask? Well, it involved me getting a plastic apron on and putting on this very LONG blue plastic glove. I walked into the shed where there were about 20 cows all lined up next to each other. I squirted some lubricant onto my arm and proceeded to insert my arm into the cows rectum...
All I have to say is that it felt very warm inside and thawed my arm quite nicely from the cold weather. Apparently my arm had been so cold that when I was palpating the cow's rectum, the warm temperature actually made my arm sting a bit at first. They said that the ovaries would be the most difficult to palpate but that was the first thing that I felt. The contractions of the rectum were so strong that my arm was getting very tired after a while and the cow I had was moving quite a bit, which meant that I moved with it. Quite a bit of students got a lot of gas expulsion in their face, I was lucky enough where that didn't happen to me... So I can successfully say that I have been properly initiated into vet school! Now it actually feels like I am in vet school and not just studying lecture after lecture... Sorry everybody, no pictures were taken for obvious reasons...my phone could have easily been mucked up quite a bit. Well, I must continue with the studying of neurology. Only two weeks remain until the next set of exams and only 2.5 weeks until I begin my lambing placement in North Yorkshire, England. Hope everyone is doing well and I posted more pictures of things through the photo link. I will keep adding more as I get free time here and there.
3 comments:
Congratulations! :) It's official! And I soooo understand the warm thing - I had to palpate cows in January in Washington. If I could have shoved both arms in the backside of that cow, I would have.
Had to pull a #$&&!! carnassial tooth today - teeth are fun, teeth are fun, teeth are fun...
I think you need to take a camera and get someone to take your picture next time you're heading for the cows. :)
Talk to you later!
I managed to get through vet school without palpating a cow or horse. I did not want to learn that nor did I have intentions of doing it after graduation!!!
Yikes, sounds like very dirty work to me! Hopefully you won't have to do any of that again any time soon!
Love you bunches! Michelle misses you!
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