LA ICU

Ok, since I REALLY don’t feel like reading 20 pages on colic and why horses do it, I’ve decided to post on my large animal ICU week. I started 20 Dec at 9AM and finished 27 Dec 9AM. The first few days were tough since we had to get up in the middle of the night to do colic checks and give meds, but as horses got better and went home the workload got easier. We were very lucky since no emergency colic cases came in (in previous years. they’ve had 2 to 4 cases come in over-night on CHRISTMAS!).

Not pictured: Demon shower

The cottage was way more comfy than I thought it would be. Two twin rooms and a bathroom upstairs, two single rooms and a bathroom downstairs, and a kitchen/lounge. Only thing was, the upstairs shower was possessed by some evil demon, so we all had to share the downstairs one.

I can has some foodz, pleaz?

The on-duty resident would bring his dog with him when the hospital was closed for Christmas, and he’d follow us around all day. Poor thing has really short legs, so he’d always be the last one to arrive. Someone said he was as old as dinosaurs, lol.

For Christmas, we joined up with the girls doing small animal ICU for a very scrumptious dinner. Kit was awesome and made some crumble and key lime pie for dessert!

Even the guys came along for some fun (and food). They weren’t too keen on having their pics taken, though.

It was very cold during our week, so we spent a lot of time hiding in here ‘learning’ about horsey things. But really, we just ate chocolates and goofed around. And wrote in our charts, since that is very important!

We had some good cases in and got to see several endoscopies, stomach tubings, how to work up an ophtho case, and how to manage ortho cases. I even learned how to place an IV!

The new build is coming along nicely. Hopefully it will open soon so that we can enjoy it before graduation!