First Day of Placement

So today was my first official day working at Greenbank Animal Hospital. I wasn't too busy today, there was a spay, neuter and a low dose dex dog that was scheduled. I went in to two vaccination appointments with Dr. Oliver and I thought that it was so strange that there were no room technicians. The doctors did everything, there was no tech to check in the appointment. The appointment went by much faster too and there were no problems with appointments running over their scheduled time. I assisted with the cat neuter, which took all of 10 minutes to do. For cat neuters, they do something completely different than what I'm used to seeing. They inject the testicles with local anesthetic and find that it helps quite a bit with pain management. So I was given the local block and was given the job of injecting the testicles. I can tell you that that's the first time I've done that! They also inject subcutaneous local anesthetic on the lateral sides of the linea alba and also bathe the broad ligaments of the uterus in local anesthetic and find that they can maintain the patient on a very low anesthetic plane without having to increase the anesthetic percentage. The spay was done in about 15 min and that was the end of the surgeries that were scheduled.

Towards the end of my shift, this barn cat came in with a prolapsed testicle and he had an emergency neuter. Then, my fantazing girlfriend picked me up and then we went to Tim Hortons to play rrroll up the rim to win. I lost. Kristen won a coffee. She is awesome! Then we went home and had a gigantic salmon dinner. Now we are going to watch a movie.