vet-to-be in ACTION!

So yesterday I told Barrett about how my life is just work and movies...well

today I actually got to apply my vet-in-training skills!!

It was awesome!! After work Steph, Leanne and I went to Primark (basically like a cheaper version of walmart...tshirts are like 1 pound! its insane!) anyways, we are going out tomorrow night for Vicki and Catherine's bdays (that way since we all have alternating weekends off, we all have to work Saturday morning and we can all be hung over together :p) so I needed a shirt since all I have is my strapless shirt...and i definitely brought home my strapless bra and left it there...and the only other half decent shirt i have is dirty because my washer still hasn't been connected (neither has my cooker...hopefully tomorrow??) So i went and bought like 5 shirts, a shrug sweater and earrings.....for 19 pounds...yah that's right. how good am i!

SOOO afterwards we went to Steph's yard (barn) to see her ponies and feed them and stuff, and on Tuesday we had noticed that her colt Chino (2 year old intact male little SHITE of a pony that is as high as my waist...maybe...) had a bite on his ass, well today we got there and I got the joy of cleaning it because steph hates pus..and so we pulled off the scab and it was like a puncture wound looking. so since he wouldn't stand still we called Dan to come hold him...I have to get the pictures off Leanne because I just couldn't stop laughing. Dan is a rugby player...and a big guy, and he was almost on his knees trying to hold Chino because he is so little..it was HYSTERICAL!

But he held him so I was able to clean it all out, and figure out it WAS a bite mark and inspect how deep it was an stuff (because it was on his back, it's a non-draining wound so we have to be really careful about watching and basically preventing it from scabbing over so that it doesn't trap the pus...anyways...the technical stuff aside...I got to do my favourite thing...SQUEEZE OUT PUS!) it was fabulous.

So anyways, I cleaned it and gave her advice on how to clean, treat, what to look for, etc...basically i'm being dragged (willingly of course...because i also get to ride her pony in exchange!) back to the yard daily! Dan and I also had the fun job of molesting the poor bugger on top of all this because Steph wants to castrate him but she didn't think both nuts had dropped, so we had to check. and she's right, only 1 = he is a cryptorchid, meaning that the other testicle is still up in his abdomen so she has to send him in to the surgery to actually go under so they can cut him open and find it!!! (aka WAY more expensive then dropping him in the field and doing a simple 2 nut castration...) so she was a little upset :(

BUT I GOT TO PLAY VET! :D it was great.

So then we came home exhausted at this point and put on Honey and Steph (as usual :p) passed right out and so after the movie finished we dragged our asses up to bed :p where i am now seated.

OHHH and we heard from Lucas today! His flight is booked to come back August 14th (ONE WAY TICKET!!!) :p I told Steph he would be back, she knew it too, just doubted herself. They are so cute. I've already told her I'm a bridesmaid...

ok, BED, work tomorrow then we are going out so I'm going to be exhausted!