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Heading home for the HOLIDAYS tomorrow! • Apollo

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Two more days of large animal internal medicine.
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When I say this rotation has been a challenge, that is putting it lightly. I don’t think any rotation has left me more physically or mentally exhausted at the end of the day. But I have learned so much more than I could have ever imagined. The people are wonderful, my rotation mates are incredible future doctors, and being outside all the time definitely is a plus.
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Thankful for all my neurologic goat patients for teaching me it’s either P. tenuous, listeriosis, or polioencephalomalacia 😂 (save this information for NAVLE prep). Other causes of neurologic diseases in goats: rabies (yikes), lead toxicity, meningitis, otitis interna, etc. Typical treatment plan: thiamine, penicillin, banamine, pantoprazole, +/- fenbendazole, +/- florfenicol. If no response, start exploring other disease processes.
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Shout out to all my horsie patients, my alpaca, and my camel patient.
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One more day on my exotics rotation and I am SO ex $One more day on my exotics rotation and I am SO exhausted. Luckily, I got to sleep in a bit this morning but WOW. Working 14 hour days and not having a day off takes a toll. It makes me realize how incredibly important it is to set boundaries in vet med. To take time for yourself and your mental health, whatever that looks like. That being said, exotics is by far my favorite rotation (outside of internal medicine). I love how we always have to think outside of the box to make the best treatment plans for these animals that have very limited research to back our medicine. Here is a summary of what I have participated in over the past two weeks on my exotics rotation: 1. Managed a Peking Duck who had endoscopic removal of an esophageal fishhook 🦆 2. Endoscopically removed a gastric impaction in a smooth sided toad 🐸 3. Created a weight loss plan for a tegu lizard 🦎 4. Removed a laryngeal mass and wrangled a fractious iguana 5. Scrubbed in on a mini pig spay and participated in a gastric lavage when said pig ate all her litter and got impacted 🐖 6. Scrubbed in on a mass resection, cloacopexy, and cloacoplasty on the nicest cockatoo ever 🐦 7. Euthanized a ferret with multicentric lymphoma and urolithiasis. And SO much more. This has been an exhausting few weeks, but I am so thankful for the experiences I have had. Thankful for my neighbor who helped me with Apollo during my long days. Thankful for the exotics team and my classmates who make the exotics department function even when understaffed. Next week I move onto cardiology and I am excited to learn from some of the best. Wish me luck!$

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