holy CRAZINESS!!!!

Well, today was by far the busiest of all 3 days. I didn’t even get my TPR’s done when the head tech asked me to suit up for a set of xrays.
The arthostomy patient, yeah well, he decided to show up last night at closing, so we did xrays on his hock, and after that was done with, I had to develop the shots. As a result of the xrays, the horse went into surgery. (this all happened in a matter of 20 mins).

Here's one of many pictures that I took in surgery. Dr. Dan, our surgeon is doing the arthroscopy on the horse. He ( the horse) is upside down on the surgery table. Anesthetic equipment is behind me and to my right and the arthroscopy equipment and the TV screen is behind me and to my left.

After the surgery, came lunch time. I ended my lunch short because I hadn’t started my lunchtime TPR’s, feedings, and stall cleaning, that’s when one of the vets came in and asked me to brush the arthrostomy guy because his owners were coming to get him. At the same time, the head tech came in and told me that when I was done of that, to finish cleaning surgery and clean all of the instruments from surgery. Before I could get to that, the owners of the arthrostomy guy came. While I was helping the vet with him, he started GUSHING blood, so I had to run and get one of the senior vets.
Once that was looked after, I got to the instruments, but while doing those, I was asked to walk the peritonitis mare. After I was done walking her, I started washing away the mass amounts of blood that now lay on the barn floor from the arthrostomy guy. While doing THAT, I was asked to go on the road with one of the vets that was going to drill a hole into the sinus of a mare. So, I stopped what I was doing to go on the road. It doesn’t stop there!
When we got there, the mare looked really good...... So we decided against drilling into her sinus, and flushed it instead…BUT! While doing that, what happens, but the mare begins colic-ing! RIGHT THERE, in front of me! So the vet and I were at this barn for almost 2 hours…. When we finally left, the vet asked if I was hungry, which of course I was, it was now 730 and I hadn’t eaten since lunch time. So we went to Boston Pizza, and she bought me dinner :)

This was a nice end to the day….UNTIL! While writing this wonderfully long entry, the breaker in my room BLOWS! “MY GOD!”, I think to myself….I cant sleep without a source of heat! Im going to FREEZE TO DEATH! (It was either this option or take my blankets up to the surgery room and set up camp on the surgery table…….) Naturally I didn’t want to see either option happen, so I went in search of the breaker box. 20 mins later! I now have light, heat AND my computer running again! :) Now it’s time for bed, because with my luck, Ill have an even CRAZIER day tomorrow.
Ciao!