My Last Month Would Make a Bee Look Lazy!

Between the travel and the start of classes, its been quite a month!

Made it down to school on the island of Grenada safe and sound with no delays or issues. Got back to an amazingly spotless house. I can't say enough about how much I appreciate my landlords here! Its not that I left my part of the house in total shambles... but lets just say that after a week of final exams with the last one ending ~12 hours before my departure flight took off, not 'a lot' of cleaning got done.Classes and club stuff started up very quickly the day after I landed and have all been rolling since! We also found out that the University had decided to put an end to the use of pigs in our Junior Surgery and Anesthesia Lab... Which is fine even though we made amazingly proficient and prolific use of the pigs, but it bumped our first surgical experience up two weeks and made our first surgical patient someone's pet... Which definitely served to take the adrenaline up a few notches last week!
Speaking of that we did our first surgery of veterinary school last week!! It was just a simple neuter but with it being the first patient where the care fell squarely on our shoulders... we were prepared like we were going in for a much more invasive and involved procedure. Everything went really well through the surgery and we even had the chance to have the visiting veterinary dentist come in and remove the little dog's deciduous teeth. He recovered perfectly and we sent him home happy, healthy and without the ability to make and more unwanted puppies to roam the island as strays.
The next couple weeks should be just about as busy as the past few. We keep doing surgery about every ten days for the rest of the semester and we are also kicking off a lunchtime lecture series through our local chapter of the Student Affiliate of the American Veterinary Medical Association to highlight all the varied veterinary experiences that our students have while they are here at SGU. So there have been a couple of us working very hard behind the scenes to get that program rolling and off the ground. The first lecture is in two weeks, so hopefully we provide funding by then or else it will be a lunchtime lecture without lunch!!

Well, I hope everything is going well for anyone that still happens to be readying this blog. Shoot me an e-mail let me know what you're up to!! I promise to update more often!