My last day!!

Today was my last day equine EMS, and all of my summer EMS! Crazy to think that I'm done for the summer and school is just around the corner. It was a fairly busy day. First we scanned the mare from yesterday to see if she had ovulated. Nothing happened, so they're going to keep scanning her to make sure they don't miss it. Then a horse came in that had fractured its jaw, so we took a bunch of radiographs. It turns out its pretty hard to get a good radiograph of a horses jaw, so we all had a good laugh trying to rotate the machine, the horse, the cassette, and at one point the vet held the cassette between the machine and the horse, so we all laughed about that. It turned out to have a slight fracture, but didn't need setting. Then we scoped a horse that had suspected narcolepsy. It was a pretty weird case, but the horse falls a couple of times and looks like it was loosing weight, so we scoped down into its stomach right done to its pylorus! But barely, since this horse was huge and the scope wasn't quite long enough. But it was really cool to see the inside of the stomach in situ and the different tissue. There were no ulcers, so they can rule that out. Then they took a belly tap to check if there is anything unusual in the abdominal fluid. It was kind of a weird case since the vet was just told to do these procedures and was a little confused and to what and why. It would be interesting to see the ultimate diagnosis, but i won't be there. Then we re-examined the lameness case from yesterday. He was much lamer than after we blocked him, and then we blocked his fetlock joint and he improved, though was still lame. So they're going to treat his joint, and give him medication for arthritis to see if it helps him. Then j sort of waited around for a bit and went out on a call to see another lame horse. He had a wonky leg, but the vet seemed to think he was doing better. Then I got dropped at the train station and now am heading back for the last time! At least for a while, then packing tomorrow and heading back to sunny CA Sun! Can't wait!