Whoever says that third semester isn't a busy one lies! For a four-day week, I feel like I haven't accomplished much of anything.
Virology is the bane of my existence--I can't wait to never take a Giymah class again. Luckily, my tutor is really good at coming up with easy ways to remember the material and tells us stories of Polyoma trying to reach the Hepadna Hospital but running into the three-legged ParvoDog along the way (all virus families) and the details on each are important features of the families themselves.
My pathology group had our necropsy on Friday--and they had two groups in the necropsy lab at the same time. We first watched the other group's necropsy--a hypothyroid 8-year-old dog. Our case was a 5-month old anemic kitten. It's amazing how much we've already learned, as we were describing and identifying post-mortem changes versus what had happened while the kitten was still alive. Poor little thing was LOADED with worms--tapeworms, whipworms, and hookworms--and had some sort of pneumonia. No wonder he was anemic! At least we have an interesting case to present to the class.
P.A.W.S. had an adoption day on Saturday--sadly, it was one of the worst adoption days I'd seen yet--only 5 adopted. :( I hope it picks up... if we don't adopt them out, we can't save more.
Well, that's about it for the week... just gotta get back to studying, I suppose. Blah!
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