tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74323391085784680162011-07-08T06:25:24.137-07:00Not your grandma's vet school blog, I assure you!Matt Future Vethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619762834714690172noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432339108578468016.post-44897892407509023962009-06-15T16:42:00.000-07:002009-06-15T17:07:07.524-07:00

It seemed like I'd never muster up the energy to write again, but here I be! The last few months have been awesome. I have had the opportunity to work with some amazing vets in a large animal clinic and have learned a ton! We also decided to make the move to Utah State University and have since found an apartment (where our dog Dixie Normous can stay with us) and I have registered for classes!

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Just a quick note before I retire to bed. I'm really sorry to all for not writing more often! It's just that lately I've been swamped with finals and work at the hospital! As many of you know, spring time means foals, vaccinations, castrations, and de-worming (with it's occasionally subsequent colic)! I appreciate all your comments, emails, twitters, prayers, and every bit of positive energy

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So, here's a little something for you physiology buffs out there: Here is a picture of a healthy human brain, perhaps a good idea of what MY brain looked like prior to this weekend:Now, let's take a look at what my brain HAS to look like now and let's hear the diagnoses:You see, my brain, similarly to your brain, is made up of tiny little cells. When you take a cell and place it in a hypo tonic

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Well, I got the job working at the local large animal hospital! I have been calling the clinic every month or so for the past year, and when I found out that they were hiring, I about fell out of my chair. Anyway, the thing that gets me the most pumped is that it is foaling season! We had a seminar last night about foaling where we learned all about how to test the mare's milk, deliver foals,

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I am so behind in this issue, but do you remember the dog I helped to impregnate? Well, she's definitely pregnant! Here's a right lateral image of her abdomen. If you look closely, you can see the little spines and ribs and skulls starting to mineralize! (On the 2nd image, the bottom 2 arrows point to the spines and ribs I told you about, and the top one points to the mom's colon, packed to

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Thanks again to all of my readers for checking in on my last post! As some of you know, recent months have found me riding the bus and car pooling with my wife to school due to a torrent or mechanical problems with my trusty Isuzu SUV. It all started with a simple $300 timing belt that broke and eventually turned into a $2500 timing belt, 12 intake and 12 exhaust valves, a water pump, fuel

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So, this is the second attempt at writing this post. The first was way too sappy, and that's just not how I roll. I have learned a ton from this last semester at the University of Utah, and most of the things learned, I'm sure, will be of use to some of my readers, and if nothing else, entertaining. So, here's the list:1) Anthropology is a class, not a store. In an effort to repel episodes of

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I have said many a time that I never would want to practice as a veterinarian in a small animal practice because, hey, how interesting could routine vaccines and spay/neuter surgeries be for the rest of my life? Don't get me wrong, I still want to do large animal orthopedics, but the past couple of weeks have given me new insight to the wiles of the smalll animal world.Anyone who was around me

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Sorry about that last post. It was kinda lame. But here's to redemption! I was driving up 7th east the other night to go to my oh-so-stimulating Anthropology class. We were stopped at a red light, and I was about 5 cars back from the front of the line when the light turned green. Just as the line of cars was across the intersection, a silver BMW came from the intersecting street and like a

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So, the other day, I was holding a cat so we could draw some blood from its jugular vein. Many of you may not know this, but cats are actually a hybrid between rabid spider monkeys and Wolverine from X-Men. This particular cat's Wolverine blades are located on its back feet, which proved very useful in filleting my right palm. The photo is after I spent 30 minuted scrubbing the wound with

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Not to be out-done by Murph, here are some photos of some bizarre stuff we have found inside animals guts. This first one is a dog that looks like he got into the stuffed animals and decided that after he had his way (biblically) with the toy, he was going to eat it. I'd show you the surgery photo, but it's a little gory. But here's a shot of the stuff we took out:But the cake goes to a

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Easy fellas. The U has a beautiful football team lead by Sakoda, but where it is letting me down is in the arena of preparing me to enter into vet school. The advisers in the pre-professional department are great if you want to go to medical school, but if it's veterinary science that tickles your pee pee, you can expect plenty of puzzled looks and yellow xerox copies of outdated vet school

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So, after my latest post on our family blog, I decided that I'd like to have a blog that illustrates how much "fun" school is and how much I love that I am going into veterinary medicine. Sure, it's not as glamorous as being a cutting edge brain surgeon, but would a stuffy old people doctor ever get to do this?Of course not! Only people with nerves of steel can go waist deep in an elephant's

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