Whoa! Two Posts in One Week?!

Building up towards last Thursday was kind of a big thing. I was going to the orthopedic surgeon to get the interpretation of my MRI. It was probably one of the best times at the doctor because he informed me the cartilage of my knee looked fine! This is good news because cartilage damage is practically impossible to fix. I do have fluid in my knee caused by inflammation. So I got a lovely shot in my knee to reduce the inflammation. Right now it still hurts, but it is supposed to be much better once the inflammation goes down. Great news for me!

Now I just have to get my leg stronger and hopefully the pain will go away for awhile! Just an FYI shots in the joint hurt really, really bad and prescription narcotics make boring classes so much better!

Ciao!

Best Day so Far in Vet School? Not Actually Being at School!

This past weekend was one of the best weekends in vet school. Saturday I went to Atlanta. Of course that evening the group of us had to find some soul food...it is the South after all. We ate at a place that had some great food, the cheese grits were to die for! The scenery, food and people reminded me of South Carolina. I am starting to think the Southeast just might be my home.

The next day we attempted to figure out the public transit system because unfortunately the hotel we were staying at was far away from any grub, etc. I got to have my first train/subway ride in a big city (I've only ridden on the ones at airports). The transit system there is pretty good and not too hard to figure out. However, by the time we got downtown it was almost time to hurry back (we might have slept in pretty late that morning) to get to our reception which kicked off the "Veterinary Student Day at the CDC" event. It was fun interacting with other vet students interested in public health.

Monday was just packed full of people talking about great opportunities for veterinarians in public health. I got to talk to people in the industry and have a better plan in mind for my future! A couple of the people helped walk us through the process of disease investigation in the case of an outbreak. Contagion anyone? (I have not seen the movie, I guess it related to some sort of disease outbreak).

The next day our flight did not leave until the evening so we decided to go to the Georgia Aquarium, it is the largest aquarium in the world! We got to see so many cool creatures, including four whale sharks! I want to go diving with whale sharks now. We even got to hav

e a tour of their veterinary facilities and briefly met the veterinarian. It was such an awesome experience.

The only downfall to this whole trip was I missed seeing my brother and

my sister-in-law while she was at WSU getting her veterinary school interview. It sounds like it went great and I have a good feeling she will get in, at least so I can bum dinners from them :D

Here are just a couple pictures from the Aquarium. I will post more later. This was me hanging out with penguins.