Its the end of first week of Semester 2!! —which means that I went through an entire semester without writing a single blog post. I guess that goes to show how busy first semester was. Goals for 2nd semester: improve time management skills.
The first semester of my DVM2 year was quite the ride. I took 8 classes:
- Regional Anatomy of the Dog (RAD)
- Parasitology
- Locomotion
- Haematopoeitic, Lymphatic, and Integument Systems
- Epidemiology
- Virology
- Immunology
- Microbiology
This semester looks like it will be just as busy. This week we hit the books again. In one of our classes we are studying the brain. We’ve covered the anatomy and some of the physiology. In our practical class we got to dissect brains. I found it difficult because my group had a small cat brain and many of the structures were hard to see. However, finding the cranial nerves and vessels was much easier when studying a horse or cow brain.
I’m excited because study of the brain means we will be covering pain and how to measure the intensity of it in animals. This also means we will be discussing analgesics (painkillers) and how to appropriately use them. Fun fact from lecture today—> Opium comes from poppies; the farms that grow poppies are very tightly regulated and at certain times of the year the crops are protected by security guards to prevent trespassing!
ttyl
Baby roo from a wildlife carers house—thats another story!
Ileana Berezanski 