4th Year Update

A post from me is long overdue. In case you didn’t know, I am now in the last part of my first semester of 4th year. It has been a very exciting and hectic semester. The days and the weeks just fly by! I’m really enjoying all my classes—even radiology too! Lol. My favourite days are surgery prac days. It seems to come more natural to me and it’s a nice break from lectures! Today I did a gastrotomy (cutting into the stomach as if to retrieve a swallowed foreign object); and a gastropexy (suturing part of the stomach to the abdominal wall to prevent rotation of the stomach) which sometimes happens in large breed dogs. I also practiced taking intestinal biopsies as well as suturing two ends of intestine together. A little bit stinky but fun fun! Oh and I did a special kind of fracture repair yesterday on the back leg of a dog with external fixators. (Those are the kind of fractures you sometimes see people walking around with all those pins and bars sticking out of their legs, arms or even the head.) Ok, I better wrap this up in case I’m boring anyone to tears!