7:10: Bundle up and leave the house.
7:25: Arrive at school. Look through patient chart, draw up medications. Physical exam on patient (2406), feed, water, and administer medications. Grain as a treat for being such a good girl! Write up physical exam, treatments, and diagnostic plans for the day.
8:00: Patient rounds with clinicians and other students on rotation. Go through everyone's cases, come up with a plan of action for the day. Clinicians leave for meeting.
8:25: Walk to neighboring building to get day's newspaper and mail from mailbox. Read through paper, start Sudoku.
9:30: Decide that 9 am appointment is either not coming or is extremely late. Make plans to leave for farm visit to dairy in the very near future.
9:34: Grab coveralls and boots and dash for the bathroom. Grunt and groan and sweat with effort of putting on coveralls bought when 20 lbs lighter.
9:40: Coverall success!
9:41: Realize group left without you as coverall endeavor took longer than anticipated.
9:43: Pout in chart room, work on Sudoku. Attempts to sit comfortably in skin-tight coveralls go unrewarded.
10:45: 9 am appointment shows, walk over to docks to watch him arrive. Stand around in the freezing cold talking to the hired hand while someone convinces the calf to leave the trailer. Put calf in squeeze chute and watch as physical exam is performed by another student.
11:35: Decide watching another student do a physical exam is boring, wander off in search of salad (need to lose those 20 lbs!).
11:50: Eat lunch, work on Sudoku some more.
12:30 pm: Students and clinicians arrive back from dairy, give them hard time about leaving her behind. Listen to case reports from dairy.
12:45: Dismissed until 2 pm for lunch break. Move to new locale to work on Sudoku. Realize you've made a rare mistake and have to start a new Sudoku.
2:00: Go back to chart room and told am going to perform an ultrasound on patient, 2406. Retrieve ultrasound machine that weighs approximately 4500 lbs and wheel into cow exam room. Retrieve rolling squeeze chute which also weighs 4500 lbs and move to outside 2406's stall. Put 2406 in squeeze chute, roll into exam room.
2:30: Commence ultrasound examination which shows approximately nothing. May be able to see an abscess in the omentum if turn head 34 degrees to left and squint right eye. Decide to take a radiograph of abdomen/thorax.
3:00 pm: Roll 4500 lb squeeze chute and 2000 lb cow to radiology. Take radiographs, which show she has some lung issues (!!). Roll cow back to stall.
3:45: Wander around some more, work on more Sudoku.
4:15: Start PM treatments, do quick physical exam of 2406.
4:45: Quick patient rounds with other students and clinicians. Develop plan for following day.
5:15: Leave for home.
5:30: Arrive home. Feed horses. Walk into front room and realize a goat has been trapped there all day and has peed and pooped and otherwise destroyed room.
5:41: Hold back tears. Close door to room, turn off light. Will wait for another day.
*Please note this is a very slow service, especially around the holidays. I like to think I'm usually much busier than this.**
**Not always true--we are a teaching hospital surrounded by hundreds of miles of wheat fields.
2 comments:
Oh you poor thing (in reference to the goat).
Thanks for sharing. It was actually really interesting! It must be hard to sit around though....whenever I have down time I'm writing in my blog. I can't just do nothing!
Elly you crack me up. Seriously though, between the trucks and now the house, the goat would be in one of those Mexican taco vans that they drive around and park outside of bars at 3AM so their customers are so drunk they don't realize they are eating old goat.
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