Six more days of classes, 1 more clinical pathology quiz
and 9 finals. We had our first final exam on Monday - surgical lab
final. Ten minutes, five stations, two minutes at each and no going
back. I did pretty well, I think. My thumb got stuck as I was trying to
glove and I fiddled with it for what felt like forever, but still came
in before the buzzer. I nearly shit myself (metaphorically) when my
examiner's phone rang midway through doing a transfixating ligature - I
thought it was the timer at first! All in all, it could have been much
worse. I didn't stab myself. Or anyone else.
Next is anesthesia lab exam on Monday. That'll be sixteen
stations, two minutes per station, and of course, no going back.
Combination of demonstrate/explain and written work. I'm good with the
fluid rate and drug calculations, and I'll be okay with IV catheters and
ET intubation and the machine once I review it a bit more, but lord
help me, the nerve blocks will be the death of me. And they've listed a
bunch that no one ever practically uses! Dental blocks in dogs and cats,
and paw blocks in cats, and epidurals in cattle are all well and good,
but there's very rarely a need to do a nerve block on a cow's lower jaw,
damnit!
This time of year is always weird. You're so close to the end - 21 days! But there's just so much shit to do that you might as well be buckling down for an 18 month transatlantic sea voyage. I just don't know where to start. That's not to say I haven't started reviewing at all, cause I have. Mostly I've been working on Mt Clinical Pathology. I made base camp at cytology. It's frustrating, because I really like clinical pathology. But there's just SO MUCH INFORMATION. "Overwhelming" doesn't seem to begin to describe it. "Uberwhelming" maybe. Yeah, I like that. "Uberwhelming".
