Exploding Udders!

Today clinical club had an open session in the PM room and it was super fun! After freaking out over pharm all day it was nice to get our hands dirty, so to speak, doing a PM on a ewe. Good to know that my dissecting skill are still good (apparently its now my claim to fame here? maybe that makes me sound like a serial killer, though useful in vet school!) and it was nice getting to see everything in situ for once, since normally we just get a liver on a slab. This ewe had a pretty jacked liver, probably fluke, but otherwise she was pretty healthy! When we were cutting we saw these weird lumps in her udder so when there was a lull while another person was removing the rib cage, my flat-mate and I decided to investigate. Cutting into them seemed like the most logical solution, so I firmly grasped to solid lump (there was a more cystic feeling one there as well) and I cut into it. At first nothing happened, then bam explosion all over my flatmates gown! WE both screamed and thought that it was pus, but it was just a mammary gland, so she (a vegan) got doused in milk. It was pretty funny, and a good time for all of us. The weather has also been nice, so we walked to school for it to enjoy the good day, since we are more or less couped up all day from now on. Yay exams!