1. I am learning my medical abbreviations. "NPO" means "nothing by mouth". It was on the cage card, and I asked. Then, I learned it at school again.
2. Puppies! There were two cute puppies there, and they were awesome. The first one, it was kind of both male and female, so it was odd, but the people called it a she, and her name was Lily. She was most adorable! Then later a puppy came from the pet store, and he had jumped out of the cage and hurt his leg, so she brought him. On the way, the lady said, he had started sneezing. Poor guy! He was SO cute... it's a good thing, too, because he sneezed on my face... ew, haha. Later they x-rayed his leg, and it turns out his tibia (the bigger of the two lower leg bones) on his back left leg was broken. Even I saw it. It was called a "greenstick fracture", which means it didn't go all the way through. Yes, I am learning something at school, haha!
They bandaged the leg, didn't splint it, because it was a clean, crisp break. Poor puppy, he cried, and then he wagged his tail when we baby-talked him. After the bandage, his leg was about 4x it's normal size, and the poor guy didn't know what to make of that. He was confused. Then, we wrapped the bandaged leg in plastic wrap (the kitchen kind) because he was a puppy, and puppies pee all over the place, and he'd probably make his bandage all soaked with urine. We got the plastic wrap from the break room, which I thought was kind of funny.
3. I helped with an ultrasound again of a boxer and his bladder and glands and stuff, and I discovered that the smell of ultrasound lotion makes me feel sick. It is sickly sweet.
4. Ah, yes, I almost forgot... I saw the roundest cocker spaniel ever. One of the nurses told me, "Nikki, please go get Mr. Potato Head." I was confused, but she said, "you'll see", so I went, and looked, and sure enough-- a huge cocker spaniel was napping in his kennel. He was the color of a potato, and very sweet, but he was almost 50 lbs! That's a lot for a cocker.
The end. : )
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