Medicine Woman

So since the last time I blogged, life went...well...a little nuts! :}

I finished up with my midterms. I did rather well on them. And when I say "well", I mean I got all A's. Yes! HAHA! I actually felt pretty confident going into these ones. Some of the teachers have taken on the opinion that rather than just have us regurgitate information, they're going to give us related case studies and ask one simple question: "What would you do?" I happen to loooove this new approach. It's practical and I can literally think my way through it. I imagine an emergency case coming in, think about its problem, put together what might help to save the animal, then literally run through the clinic, the supply closet, and the procedure...in my mind. I had a lot of "Excellent!" and "Perfect job!" marks on my exams. WOO!

This last weekend I went out to Wendover with some friends. It was a fun little trip, but we had a minor issue on the way out there. As we were passing the small area of Delle, an SUV rolled in front of us. It was going East, we were going West, and it rolled across its highway, through the middle, over our highway, and onto our far shoulder. It was bad. Remembering the headlights flipping and rolling, over and over again, still makes my stomach churn. We immediately started pulling over when my sister-in-law yelled, "Is that someone on the highway?!" Sure enough there was a girl laying in the middle of the highway - she had been thrown out of the vehicle. In my normal emergency-mode manner, I didn't think - I just ran. I'm not sure if the car was even stopped, but I was already running up the highway shoulder and into the middle of the road. I stopped a semi and waved it around the girl, then screamed at some guy that thought it might be a good idea to pull her off the highway. She was dazed, scared, bloody and her left leg was twisted and turned in a scary, awkward way. Human stuff has always freaked me out. I cry, get nauseous, throw up and sometimes pass out. But, that night was different. I immediately flew into medicine mode, thinking about pulse, respiration rate, pupil dilation, pulse deficit, bleeding control... It was my animal medicine, but it was medicine nonetheless. I took control of the situation and helped. I am awesome. If it seems like I'm telling this story in an "epic" fashion, it's because I am. I am damn proud of myself. It was a scary situation, but I handled it. I can't help but think that I might just rock this medical stuff yet. :) Anyways from what I know, the girl is okay. Of course, as is normal with every situation in my life, there was humor involved. Like how I swore at and almost punched a retarded EMT, or how even standing in front of a massive semi and waving it around, I thought, "Dude! My dad would kill me if he saw me doing this!", or how I was ready to tackle some dude NFL-linebacker-style when he thought it might be a good idea to drag the girl out of the road. LOL! So yeah...I was HERE.

My brother, his wife and I are headed to San Francisco this weekend. It's going to be a bittersweet trip. I love S.F. It is one of my favorite places ever. But my cousins that live there make up a huge part of that. And this time, they won’t be there. :( Their grandpa died last Sunday, so they’re coming home to Utah, while we head to S.F. We’re still going to go stay at their place and take on the city, so I know we'll still have a lot of fun. But yeah...going to miss my cute cousins. Love them to pieces.

Oh...on the topic of S.F. I heard hottie Mike Rowe from "Dirty Jobs" lives there. If I ran into Mike, I wouldn't complain. I'm just sayin'. ;)

So that is my discombobulated life as of late. I've been sick the last few days. I don't know what's going on, but I've decided Parasitology has turned me into a hypochondriac. A couple quick urgent trips to the bathroom and I'm stressing over possible protozoan infection. LOL! We're going to the horse barn on Friday morning for my Production Animals class. Thank goodness. I need the quiet calm, familiar smell and fuzziness of a big pony right now. Either that or Lola. One crazy night in Wendover and I missed my bubs like no other. I’m not quite sure what I'd do without my little BT.

Love yaaaa'll. xoxoxAC