It's Been A Long Time!

 Wow! I cannot believe how long it has been since I wrote a blog here! I passed my state and national board exams in 2011 and got my veterinary technician license. I got married 💍 and bought a house 🏡 in 2014. I have had worked at 5 veterinary practices and I am going to start my new job on November 1st! How is that for a quick recap?

So, even though I have been a licensed veterinary technician for 11 years I still feel like I am still becoming a vet tech! Every single day I work to make myself a better vet tech. I love to learn and going to continuing education sessions are my favorite 😍 I think that if you stop learning you stop growing. When you stop growing you stop being the best technician for your patients. When you are not the best technician then maybe it is time to stop. I am definitely not ready to stop!!!

I am going to resurrect this blog and try to keep it up to date. I will post new things as they come up, hopefully with my new job I will have lots of cool things to write about. I will also write about some things I have been doing for the past few years. 

I love the veterinary community and I am so happy to be a part of it! 🐾

"You're going to put WHAT WHERE?!?" and other things my patients would say

Working with animals would sometimes be a lot easier if they could actually tell you what is wrong with them. Other times you are seriously happy that they cannot talk. Sometimes it is really funny to think about the things the animals wish they could say. Here is a list of of things I think my patients think about me.

• (The look every animal gives its mom) Mom, why is this crazy lady talking to me?
• (The doctor brings a dog over to see a cat in a cage) Seriously Doc? Why do I want to look at a cat that I can't chase?
• (Watching two techs spray each other with a spray bottle) UhOh! What did you guys do to get in so much trouble?
• Please don't poke me, please don't poke me, please don't poke me!!!
• OUCH! Why did you have to poke me so many time?
• *snorting and snuffle-ing* I can't believe you shot that up my nose!
• Just because I am cute and little doesn't mean I won't try to rip out your throat.
• You're going to put WHAT WHERE?!?
• I could have told you that I wasn't really THAT sick if you would listen to me for once.
• I miss my tooth!!!
• Hmmm.... I feel lighter. I wonder what happened while I was asleep?

These are just some of the things that I am sure were thought just over the past 3 days while I was at work. There are just too many funny things to pick from when you see so many patients a day.

Anybody else have any funny things their pets would say?

Busy is an understatement...

Hey everyone, I know that it has been over a year since I posted. I have been really busy, but I know that is no excuse to not keep blogging. So much has happened since I last wrote that I do not even know where to start....

Well, I did graduate college and I took and passed State and National Boards. Which made me a Licensed Veterinary Technician.

Nothing panned out with the guy I was hinting about (thank goodness for that. He was kinda a loser in the long run. We are still friends, sorta...) but I did find love. 

I found the most wonderful, amazing, supportive man in the world! I love him so very much! We have been together for 10 months now. He literally makes me the happiest girl in the world :-)
Here is a picture of us... aren't we cute together?

I also finally got a job! I had been actively looking for a job since September 2011 when I recieved my license and I just got hired April 26th, 2012. Even though it is only part time for now it does have the potential to become full time in the near furture. I love my new job so much. I still can't belive that I am getting paid to do something that I love.

Now that I am out of school I will try to keep my blog up to date. I will also probably write about more than just my vet tech things. I have realized that even thought my career is my life, my life cannot be my career. Life consists of all the things that make you who you are, not just a career or a job or even a passsion. You cannot describe yourself by one single thing.

Now, I actually have to go because I am heading to work in a few....

Peace & Love.... Remember, don't get bit!

It's been a while.....

So, the last time I wrote was in October. It feels more like a lifetime though. I have been so insanely busy and now I am in my last semester of college. Yes, I actually make it all the way to my board review class!!! I did have some doubts from time to time, so I am quite pleased with myself.



There is really nothing super new to update. oh, I did finally make the Dean's List last semester. It was my first time on the Dean's List since I started the program. I am so happy, it will look good for graduation.

Well, since I last wrote I have gone to the horse barn a couple of times. Same thing with the cow barn.


We had snakes, lizards, mice, rats, and many other exotic animals come and visit us too.



I've had a lot of 'learning experience' to say the least, but all in all I am happy for all of my experiences. Good or bad they have helped shape me into the future vet tech I will be.

Right now I am interning at a local vet hospital and I am learning so much. It still is all so new to me and a lot of the time I feel like I am just being shoved out there totally unprepared. I know that this is helping me, since I always feel so uncomfortable dealing with clients. I work about 8hrs a day 3 days a week, dealing with clients. Way to be out of my comfort zone!


Strange enough, I have also had some boy drama. I wont get into it right now. All I know is that I am determined to be single until I pass all of my board exams. But, I will leave you with a cliffhanger. I get multiple text messages a day and have been taken out a couple of times....
What do you think will come of this?

The Jackson 5

Wow, it has been so long since I have posted. Let's see what I have to update you on.
Well, I did my 5K on September 19th, and I did pretty well. I ran/walked it in 51:34 which isn't too shabby. Then we got to do a tour of the Detroit Zoo's veterinary hospital. The tour was pretty sweet.
School started back last week and it is going fairly well. Today's lab was pretty awesome. We had three of the Jackson 5 in today. No, not the singers; some really cute lab mixes. We had Jermaine a little chocolate lab mix. He was so calm for a lab puppy, it was crazy! He's such a little baby, I wish I could have taken him home with me.
Well, poor little Jermaine has worms. Which, that in itself is kinda gross, but not a big deal, right? So, I was carrying him around, cause he was just too cute to put in his cage, and I shifted his weight from one arm to the other and I happened to look down at my arm which had a tapeworm on it!!! I was like, "Ah! There's a tapeworm crawling on my arm." Everyone thought my reaction was hilarious. It totally is funny, but I was SO not expecting to have a tapeworm crawling on my arm. It was totally cool though because I got to make a slide with a crushed proglottid (body segment full of eggs) and some water and I identified what time of tapeworms he has and I got to look at the tapeworm under the microscope too! I had never made a slide like that before so it was pretty sweet.
Other stuff in lab was pretty cool too. I got to monitor for his neuter, and it was the first time I got to do it the whole time. It was pretty neat. I really like the esophageal stethoscope, it is sooo neat to listen to.
I guess I will sign off for now. I mean, there is a whole ton of stuff I could go on and on about, but most of it is pretty boring for you, since you have no clue what I am talking about.
I will try to post a couple pictures later on that I took today.


Jennie

The End Is (thankfully) Not The End

Today I finally got my laptop back. It has been out of commission for about a month now, and I never really realized how much I use it for school until I didn't have it.
But, never mind about my computer....I have some very important news to tell you! I passed all of my summer semester classes!!! And now I can move on and take my fall classes! Thankfully I have a month off though. I got a B+ in my Radiology class, a B+ in my Small Animal Surgery and Nursing class, a B- in Veterinary Pathology, and a C+ in Intro to Diagnostic Laboratory Procedures. Such a victory since I thought I was failing intro to diag.
Now that I have a month off I really don't know what to do with myself. I know that I for sure need to save all the money that I can, because I am in need of a new vehicle. Don't ask, cause I am not going to tell ;). Vacations have been planned, cancelled, rescheduled, re cancelled, and some are even finally going to happen =).
Since I will be out of class for a month I really won't have anything to write about. Well, there is the Run Wild for the Detroit Zoo coming up. I am going to be running in a 5K. Unbelievable I know. So I will definitely keep you up to date with the happenings with that. The deal is I have to run this 5K course in less than 45min. and right now I can run/walk/jog/drag myself along for 4 Miles in 40min. So, I am not doing too shabby since a 5K is only about 3.3 miles (or so I am told). But I only have until the 18th to train for it because it is on September 19th. But I will definitely keep you posted about it.

Wish me luck!

not a promising class...but a very promising friend indeed

yesterday i took a test and i failed it miserably. when the teacher gave us the tests i was looking at it and felt so sick to my stomach i almost puked on the table. on closer inspection of the test there were words that didnt even look real.
so, now at least you understand why i failed the test. i know it is not a good excuse, but still. there actually is a point to this sad story. and no, it is not that i am going to drop out or anything stupid like that. i want to tell you about one of my very best friends. i know i have a lot of best friends, but this one just happened to be online at 1AM, so she was there to help me out.

i have know sabrina a little over a year. we were neighbors when i lived in musky. i finally met her my spring semester. i wish i could/would have met her sooner, but whats done is done. i have done many embarrassing things with sabrina since i have known her. having our rhc ask us if we were drunk while playing frisbee at midnight, confusing our ra by switching houses when he came over, making her housemate climb out the window to get the frisbee (dont worry, it was daytime), lots of things that involved our rhc (but we arent gonna talk about everything right now..... hehehe), boy problems, friend issues, craptastic roommate junk, we've done it all. BUT last night sabrina was really there for me.
i had been online off and on all night and decided to check my grade on the terrible test that i knew i did not do well on. but when i saw my grade i about died. i had utterly failed my test and was ready to give up, we arent even half way through the 3rd week of the 1st semester fyi. i was crying and typing and crying and typing and being a debbie downer but sabrina wouldnt let me stay that way. the whole time she just encouraged me, telling me that i was gonna make it. that i was gonna pass the program. just letting me know that someone had faith in me.
it really meant a lot to me. my old friend (who i just went through a terrible breakup with b/c of my schooling) was debbie downer, always telling me to just do something easier. she didnt like how i would get crabby during midterms and finals and projects. she wanted me to so something easier. always telling me i needed a back up plan and a back up back up plan. never telling me to succede, always telling me i would fail. always holding me back, tearing me down. but sabrina, sheisnt like that. wo both have problems at school, we both get crabby, we both deal with it. we encourage each other, we have a communial mutualism. we both benefit but we wouldnt die if we didnt have the other. in my other friendship, we had a parasitic mutualism going on, i gave and gave and gave and all she did was take. it wasnt cool, not one bit.
now i am not saying that sabrina is my only friend. she is my friend from college in musky. i have other friends who continually encourage me, sabrina just happened to be online at the moment.
my bestest friend laura is in LA, so we got a bit of a time difference in the way, but we work around it. we both encourage each other, but i am a bit scared to tell her i failed. because i do not do good with failing things. laura is my only friend from my group 'back home' from when i was gone for a year. we both moved, so we both know how it is to 'not be at home'. october cannot come soon enough.



sorry, my vet tech blog became an emotional downpour. but it did have to do with vet tech-y stuff. cause i did fail that test. i dont like parasites. they have weird names and there are too many of them.
i did get an A on the quiz i had today though!