Tuesday, January 13

Today was my last day at location b. It was sad, much like Monday. Unfortunately, we only had one surgery today and it was another dental prophy. I didn't do the prophy this time, instead I kept up with Dr. S during the day and got to accompany Dr. L into one of her rooms. Today was neither busy nor slow. Various appointments came in - a couple of spaniels, one with various health problems, a dog being treated for heartworms, a cat to be put down...he'd actually come into location a on Monday and wasn't doing any better overnight, a cute boxer puppy that I saw the first time I shadowed at location b...he was back in for a skin recheck and the last of his puppy boosters, and a few others. There was nothing terribly exciting, but I got to draw blood for an advanced panel we did on an older, overweight Golden Retriever who we suspected to be suffering from arthritis. The owner brought her in because her activity level changed suddenly. A urinanalysis showed nothing of significance but I'm not sure what the blood results said. I also gave a few vxn injections and asked a lot of questions. I saw that Dr. C had posted a packet about ordering a test kit for the MDR1 gene [SIDENOTE] so I did some research and found out what that was. I will definitely be posting about that in the next couple of days. Since I'm done shadowing Dr. S, I'm thinking of moving to a new blog but I haven't decided for certain just yet. I'll update once I've made up my mind.