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Anesthesia lab... we got to anesthetize a dog and monitor it during surgery. I actually enjoyed it - it's great to become more familiar with the procedures that characterize the veterinary profession. "Anesthesia is an art" - so said Mosley, and I think I kind of understand.
Yesterday I attended a talk about veterinary work in Thailand (complete with some sort of curry/rice dish - another reminder that I ought to expand my cooking repertoire). Found it interesting... they wash and resterilize surgical gloves, which is pretty much unheard of around here. Because most Thai people are Buddhist, they rarely euthanize animals but rather give them palliative care - a rather "foreign" concept.
Today I created a prime teaching opportunity for Dr. Gustafson. LO and I were putting a hard cast on one of those fake dog suture practice legs. We were using this premade casting material (fiberglass?) that you soak in water and then wrap around the leg - the water interacts with the stuff in the casting material, creating an exothermic reaction and allowing the cast to set. Well, I was half done with the first layer of casting material when I realized that we hadn't added extra cast padding around the top (toward the "scapula") and over the elbow. I was not content to leave it that way - I mean, the finished product wouldn't have been exactly the way we were told to do it and this was counting as a quiz. Even if Dr. Gustafson couldn't have told that we had left those parts out, I wouldn't have felt right about it in case the correctness of the cast was part of the grade. So I said "we forgot the cast padding. We can still add it." (I was a bit concerned that it would take too long to fix our mistake and the casting material would be messed up. But one should always make an effort to fix mistakes - not give up before all has been tried, etc - well, not really, but anyway...) Lori jumped to it, added some cast padding, and I proceeded with wrapping the material. It got harder and harder to unroll and apply. We were half way down the leg the second time when the material gave up the ghost and we had to admit defeat. Most of the casting material didn't even harden around the leg - ughh. :)
Gustafson used our error as a demo to the rest of the class in what happens when the casting material doesn't cement together. It was fine of him to do that - kind of funny, actually - and my familiarity with making mistakes has left me with little embarrassment in the face of such scenarios. I think it would be better to be more disturbed... Maybe it would make me apply my brain a little better. :)
Tonight I plan to attend a Bible study/discussion about the Holy Spirit - it should be good.
Anesthesia lab... we got to anesthetize a dog and monitor it during surgery. I actually enjoyed it - it's great to become more familiar with the procedures that characterize the veterinary profession. "Anesthesia is an art" - so said Mosley, and I think I kind of understand.
Yesterday I attended a talk about veterinary work in Thailand (complete with some sort of curry/rice dish - another reminder that I ought to expand my cooking repertoire). Found it interesting... they wash and resterilize surgical gloves, which is pretty much unheard of around here. Because most Thai people are Buddhist, they rarely euthanize animals but rather give them palliative care - a rather "foreign" concept.
Today I created a prime teaching opportunity for Dr. Gustafson. LO and I were putting a hard cast on one of those fake dog suture practice legs. We were using this premade casting material (fiberglass?) that you soak in water and then wrap around the leg - the water interacts with the stuff in the casting material, creating an exothermic reaction and allowing the cast to set. Well, I was half done with the first layer of casting material when I realized that we hadn't added extra cast padding around the top (toward the "scapula") and over the elbow. I was not content to leave it that way - I mean, the finished product wouldn't have been exactly the way we were told to do it and this was counting as a quiz. Even if Dr. Gustafson couldn't have told that we had left those parts out, I wouldn't have felt right about it in case the correctness of the cast was part of the grade. So I said "we forgot the cast padding. We can still add it." (I was a bit concerned that it would take too long to fix our mistake and the casting material would be messed up. But one should always make an effort to fix mistakes - not give up before all has been tried, etc - well, not really, but anyway...) Lori jumped to it, added some cast padding, and I proceeded with wrapping the material. It got harder and harder to unroll and apply. We were half way down the leg the second time when the material gave up the ghost and we had to admit defeat. Most of the casting material didn't even harden around the leg - ughh. :)
Gustafson used our error as a demo to the rest of the class in what happens when the casting material doesn't cement together. It was fine of him to do that - kind of funny, actually - and my familiarity with making mistakes has left me with little embarrassment in the face of such scenarios. I think it would be better to be more disturbed... Maybe it would make me apply my brain a little better. :)
Tonight I plan to attend a Bible study/discussion about the Holy Spirit - it should be good.
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