Crazy day!

Today was a busy day! It started out a little uneventful and there were so many people at the hostel I was ready to leave, so it started out a bit annoying. And then the only case that came through the other vet student pounced on, so I was a little bored sitting at the surgery. So I decided to make it a small animal day instead and bug all those vets. It was not the most interesting cases coming through, but not every case is. Then I got to head out to one of the coolest cases yet! So the car is a bit funny. This farm has been here for ages, and around 5 years ago they started having problems with scouring cows, but older cows not calves. Some of these cows die and some of them don't but never really get back to weight again, so they're effected for life basically. They've run every test and nothing has come back with a definite answer so they had someone from the lab come and do a PM had took samples of the whole cow and that still came back with nothing. The vet has done another PM and still nothing. They have Johnes on the farm but it doesn't really fit with the clinical picture since the coos scoring higher on the test aren't those that are having problems. So we got to the farm after picking up the woman from the lab from the ferry and we saw the coo in question. She was flat out and I thought she was dead. Well she wasn't and the vet took out his shotgun and shot her, so that was certainly somethig new. Then we proceeded so cut we up and sample pretty much everything. But still it was weird there wasn't anything glaringly obvious in there. Her abomasum was a little leathery and there was minor ulceration, so they were thinking maybe ostertagia, but really there wasn't anything glaringly obvious, so the plot thickens. I mostly helped with sampling stuff, and now my hands smell like cow poo. Then there was most small animal stuff, not much worth writing about particularly, but all in all it turned into a busy day! Now just chilling and watching the common wealth games!