I now have a set schedule to go to the clinic every Friday and last Friday we didn't have school. This gave me a great oppurtunity to go in and be able to observe a surgery since the clinic only does it from 11-2. I checked with Dr. Dowd and there was a "lump removal" surgery scheduled for that Friday at 10:30 am.
When I got there, everything was a bit chaotic being as everyone was running behind. So instead of having the surgery at 10:30, I didn't end up watching it until about 12:30. But I was still kept busy.
I shadowed appointments for the first hour or so and then watched prep for the surgery. The dog was already under so they had time to give it a nice teeth cleaning, then shaved where the surgery was to be done, and then moved him into the surgery room.
They gave me a mask and hair net and I put that on as I watched Dr. Dowd prepare herself for surgery. I was pretty proud of myself for not passing out or getting disgusted by my mentor pulling and cutting out a lump which was basically a big ball of fat. Once that was done the techs cleaned up and Dr. D and I weighed the lump which came to be about 11 1/2 ounces.
After that was done, we went on more appointments and I ended up learning how to prepare vaccines. On the last appointment which was with a adorable puppy, Dr. D asked me to go get and prepare a puppy parvo vaccine for the puppy. I however had no idea how to do that so I went on got help from a vet tech that I had been working with all day. She showed me how to do it so I was prepared to accomplish it by myself next time.
I ended up being at the clinic for just about 6 hours but I had a lot of fun and ended up leaning a whole lot.
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