Pregnancy and Passports

Today was a pretty busy day full of new things! It was the 2nd day of surgeries with the respiratory specialist who was here yesterday, but since there's another vet student from Glasgow here and she's watching the surgeries today, so I was on the road! I started the day by giving a mare that's been here a jag of oxytocin because we're trying to get her pregnant but she has some fluid in her uterus, so they're trying to flush it out. It seems to be working, and yesterday she was a real pain, but she seems to be improving since we're handling her more. Then I went out and did some dental work on a 3 year old. It was cool to see, and a good review since I saw all of those dentals on the donkeys in Spain. Then the vet that I was driving with needed to go to the dentist to have a tooth checked, so I went with her there. A minor detour, but I read a book about diagnostics in the car, so that was interesting. When we got back to the hospital we basically turned right around because an old pony needed to be PTS, so we went and did that. She was already laying flat out when we got there, so it wasn't particularly eventful in terms of learned how to PTS a horse, but she certainly wasn't doing to well so it was good that we could help her. Then we went back to the hospital, had a quick lunch, an then went out to do a microchip, vaccination, and a passport. Considering we were never really taught how to do them I think I filled mine in pretty well! The vet gave me a blank to practice with. It was kind of a long one because it was a skewbald horse, so there were a lot of white markings that we had to fill in, plus a lot of whorls. But he was a particularly cute and well behaved foal, very friendly and curious, and his mom was really chill so I got to practice listening to her heart, since its kind of hit or miss for me when I ca hear them. Hopefully I'll get better at that soon! I also forgot to mention a cool technique I learned about the other day. So there's a horse that has joint pain, and so they took some of his blood, spun it with these beads that trap inflammatory proteins, leaving the anti-inflammatory proteins in the serum. Then they take the serum off after they spin the sample, and then inject it into the painful joint and it should (in theory) help. I though that was pretty cool! Though I may not be explaining it right. Anywho I got off early today and got dropped at a train station closer to Glasgow, or at least the train stopped less, so I got home early for a change! I love working, but sometimes its nice to be home before 9.