Well, the past couple of days have been super busy, but not very pleasant. It started out great. I had two days off. Monday I spent lounging around for most of the day, and then I went with some friends to Dee's place for a Fourth of July party. Oh, by the way, happy belated Independence Day! For the US and Canada I might add. We had an awesome time eating barbeque, playing horseshoes, and relaxing outside. It was great.
Tuesday I went to the library really early to talk to Allison online. But I totally missed her! I hope I can talk to her soon. I miss her, and for those of you that don't know, she's currently studying in China. Makes talking together really different since she's 13 hours ahead of me. Yuck. Then I grocery shopped and hurried back to put everything away so I could go off to Austin to volunteer at Austin Pets Alive with Megan, the old vet. It was great to see her again. Jordana, the vet tech was so glad to see me and she went off to do about a million other things and I was the one who anesthetized all the puppies and kittens, and intubated them. I monitored anesthesia while catching up with Megan. It was amazing practice. I'm off again next week!
Then Wednesday happened. Sunday, one of the interns was bit by a raccoon, but couldn't tell which one bit her. The raccoon in question was in a cage of 10 raccoons. We sent one off for testing because they died naturally. Rabies testing has to be on a deceased animal because they test the central nervous system (brain matter). Well, the raccoon came back rabies positive. The intern had to be rushed to urgent care to start the post exposure shot series. She'll be fine. It was a very small wound and it's really hard to contract rabies. The part that made me sick was that we had to euthanize the other 9 raccoons because any of them could "possibly" have rabies. Apparently I was as pale as a sheet at the end of the day, and Dee took me to her friend Luther's house for enchiladas. We went for an exercise walk, and then ate. They were so good! It was nice to relax after a horrible day.
Today was a lot of work with deer. It got my mind off raccoons. I also went for a run, which was so hot, even at 8pm. Oh well. It's Texas. Miss all of you. Can't wait for my week to get better. I'd love to hear from you all. Love always.
