*yawn*

It's been an interesting week on the vet front, with lectures on vomiting and regurgitation in the small animal course, and neurology lectures in the large animal course. Also in the large animal course was a morning on Notifiable Diseases - diseases that, if you find in an animal, first you panic, then you go and tell the Government there's a problem. Scary stuff.

Practical-wise we had a class on Fine Needle Aspirates on Monday afternoon (poking holes in latex gloves and smearing bits of mush onto glass slides) and Reflexes (or How-To-Poke-A-Greyhound) yesterday afternoon. I enjoyed the reflex practical because we got to touch a real, live dog and because I actually had some idea of what the instructor was talking about. The FNA class was interesting too but I think I might need to revise my (non-existent) cytology knowledge before the exams!

We finally have all (I hope) the information we need for our pelvic fracture CLA assignment, and I assimilated it into a megatable during the week. We then had a megameeting trying to make some sense out of it this afternoon (of course, being Friday, not a lot of sense was made). We're hoping to get some comparisons made so we can continue with writing the rest of the report and get it over and done with, then start on the presentation.

This evening I visited the PM room (yes, again) and found a very impressive Staffie in an even more impressive body bag - which attracted some very curious looks as we lugged said dog down to the radiography department for x-raying. Also looked at a cat with a pelvic fracture - talk about coincidence! The staff very kindly excavated around the pelvis so we could actually see the fracture sites and took some really good photos that hopefully we can use in our presentation.

Off now for a DVD-fest at a friend's flat - procrastination is an art!