Another week bites the dust

Another week bites the dust...

We've started sheep lectures, which are like cattle lectures, but with a few, slight changes. Included in the sheep course this week was what to do with sick sheep at lambing time, something I have a lot of experience with and so I found those lectures more enjoyable than the rest!

Sheep medicine is compounded by the fact that often, the first sign of disease is death. Which makes treating said disease quite difficult. This, coupled with the fact that most farmers will now treat their own sheep, means that vets don't see much sheep work outside of lambing time. It's a shame, because I quite like sheep work (I just find angry sheep less intimidating than angry cows) and would quite like to do it when I graduate - without having to go and work in Cumbria or other sheep-orientated places (no jokes about Aberdeen or Wales please).

In the companion animal course we're still on alimentary medicine (diarrhoea and gut surgery this week), which is more interesting than orthopaedics, but still not that exciting. Although I'm sure I'll change my mind when I'm in practice and get an emergency volvulus case at 3am, and would much rather have a simple fracture!

Practicals this week consisted of communication skills on Monday and prescription writing on Thursday. The comm skills class was very good - I didn't learn much from it because I've taken communication classes before, but we all spent three hours laughing at each other so it wasn't all that bad! The prescription practical was very short, but is something that it's important for us to do - when owners or vets get instructions mixed up the consequences can be dire!

Off home for the weekend, not looking forward to passing through the airport with the current state of affairs - those who know me know airports and RDX do not go together!