How incredible would human medical and dental procedures be if they used a fear free approach???!?! Especially for anxious patients or those fearful of doctors/dentists.

Like:

Calm, quiet waiting room with relaxing music and some lavender incense

Sedative on board when you arrive so you're just chillin

Lots of different high value snack options for during (if possible) or afterwards ... think chocolates, chippies, lollies, heck maybe some fried chicken?!

Constant checking in to make sure you're dealing ok and stopping if it's getting too much

Gentle and calm communication the whole time with loads of positive reinforcement

Clear plans for before, during and after the procedure to make sure your anxiety is managed at every step possible

If it's getting too much stopping and rescheduling another day (if possible) or moving to a heavier sedation/twilight anaesthetic

Like the human world has a LOT to learn from the vet world about fear free approaches for anxious patients and I would LOVE for them to take a leaf out of our book.

Prepped a salmon poke bowl for lunch, had a 6.5k run around the faculty and got to snack on overnight oats with pistachio, blue berries and chocolate 🙌🏻✨

1 april 2023

Last week UPDATE :

Watched a lot of soft 7 am’s 🌅

Learnt to make incredible coffee ☕️

Got into a 2 year residency programme in Veterinary Internal Medicine in the college of my choice and it starts in 25 days 👩‍⚕️🥼

Switched to chicken salads for lunches 2x a week. 🥗

Went to my college fest, caught up with my seniors and juniors and got served such a yum dinner. 🍱

Revisions done :

Feline Neurology

Feline Opthalmology

Feline thoracic and Respiratory medicine

In less than 8 months I will be a vet. A veterinarian. Officially licensed to help animals. AAAAH help

I'm looking to leave veterinary medicine. For good? I don't know. But for the time being yes. Not sure when I'll leave exactly but I know it's coming soon.

It's not just about the pay either, though that is a huge factor at play. Mostly vet med has become a soul sucking, passion killing, means to the end called vet school that has been slowly killing me without actually enabling me to achieve my goal. I've lost all of my passion for anything that I've loved in life - from my art, hiking, just being adventurous. It's brought me down into the depths of depression and anxiety. It's degraded my health. And I feel utterly stuck in life. Unable to more forward, cause for every step forward I take, there's 5 steps that push me back.

But vet med is all I know. What do I want to do? I don't want anything animal related. I want something utterly and 100% different and new. I want my weekends back, I want something that's not going to physically beat me up, I want something that I am scheduled to work until 5 and I am out by 5. I want to be able to wear actual clothes, have a wearable wardrobe for once. I'm tired of wearing scrubs.

I don't know at this point if vet school is still in my future. But what I do know right now is I need away from it. Even if for a few years. I'm burnt out.

Anyone who used to be in vet med who did a complete career change, what did you do?

Anyone in vet med currently looking at doing a career change?

Your puppy fever was a little to contagious!

Contacted a breeder and getting a Belgian sheepdog soon, since it will be our first puppy (and dog), I was wondering if you have any tips that maybe are not usually found when researching and come from experience.

Looking forward to my own snout fluffer!!

!! congrats on your (future) baby! I’m mostly just stumbling my way through life with the thought process of “this will probably work out fine” so I don’t know that I have too many puppy tips I can give you haha. I can say, from working in vetmed, to try to make sure your puppy gets used to crates and restraint young! it makes such a huge difference when a dog is losing its shit and hard for staff to handle vs a dog that is tolerant (or at least not freaking out), and herding breeds can be very sensitive to that. like I completely forgot to desensitize Stellina to collar/harness grabs as a puppy and didn’t realize until one day someone tried and she panicked - oops. So with Kep we’ve just done some simple “I am tugging your collar haha silly here’s a treat” and he’s already ambivalent about it. So I think it’s all pretty standard stuff like that! Genuinely I am just kind of doing whatever and assuming that people have had dogs for ages so I probably won’t be screwing up irrevocably 🤷‍♀️

im not very knowledgeable about Belgian sheepdogs (besides thinking they’re very pretty and I would probably try to own a tervuren if I was more brave/competent) but @groenendaze and @herdybunch may have some pointers for you! I am just a little idiot with my easy herding-lite companion breed 😅

I've been a homeowner for an entire year today!

I hit my six month testosterone milestone last week!

I've had Phoebe for four months and Evander's been in his new home for one and a half!

Next week I'll have been at my vetmed job for an entire year!

Last year at this time I had no idea what the future would bring. I had my keys in hand and when I walked across the threshold into my new life I was going in blind. This year I am so happy and content with where my life is. Sometimes it's difficult, money is a major factor because I'm the only person to afford things vs sharing the cost with roommates. But I make it work, and I carve out my little slice of happiness here.

Hi guys, i have some.. news?

I think i quite simply fell out of love with physics. It's kinda sad, but I think i've come to terms with it by now. I started my masters this year, but it just felt wrong, and all work i was doing felt like torture. Also, as working life came closer, I can't imagine myself enjoying a job where I'm sat at a desk all day, which is most likely what i would do if i got a job as a physicist. Anyways, i quite physics. I still care for the subject, but I just don't think life as a physicist is for me.

I've done some thinking on what route i should go down instead. I've always wanted to work with animals, and I'm a nerd - so the plan now is to move across the country and study veterinary medicine. Luckily, my grades from high school were very very good, so I'm kinda secured a place in the vetmed program, as we apply only by grades. It's scary to start "all over" again at uni, but honestly it just really feels right. With physics i always avoided thinking about the future because i knew i probably wouldn't enjoy the kind of jobs i could get, so i think this is probably for the best.

I can't start until summer, but i'll probably study some bio until then, as i had very little bio in high school, and its been a looong time. So I would like to be prepared. I will of course still use this account, but I guess it is no longer a physicsblr

It is very unlikely that anyone actually reads this, but i just have to put it out there <3

Another beautiful morning run at the Utrecht Science Park 🍂

Thinking about Memento Mori again. Because as much as I enjoy that episode…. What are we doing with Una?

I mean, I enjoy a little bit of injury and whump for my fav as much as the next girl. And I understand the concept of introducing ticking clocks in fiction to create urgency. But the ticking clocks they chose??

First off sepsis is awful and (at least in vetmed) very difficult to treat. But it’s also infection. Something we literally just last episode learned that Una’s body will burn off?? Granted, waiting too long and having Una turn into a glow stick in the middle of a very busy sickbay would also be a bad idea, but she likely wouldn’t have to worry about “feeling like she was giving birth out of her mouth.”

But even more than that….. you don’t use plasma for surgery. Or maybe this is just a vetmed thing, so anyone with human med experience please weigh in, but you use fluids during surgery. Even with oozing, life threatening wounds, you run iv fluids throughout the surgery and for at least several hours after. Plasma comes only about 12 hours later, and even then that’s only if the patients bloods are really bad. Because, y’know, you don’t want to introduce the risk of allergic reaction to a system which has already been heavily taxed due to injury and blood loss.

Which would also be a good reason to not just randomly give a transfusion from doctor to patient. Especially since blood loss can be detrimental to a persons ability to function, which might just maybe be a really bad idea in an extreme triage situation.

So, I mean, shout out to those fanfic authors who’ve put Una in glow stick isolation for her recovery. I’d say you’re right on the money.

(Oh, and double shout out to those couple of fanfics I’ve come across that implied Una’s mods make her unaware of just how badly she’s been injured, rather than just casually reckless. Personal opinion, but way more interesting reasoning and characterization. We already know Chris is reckless as hell, we don’t need both ships parents being idiots.)

All in all, this mostly makes me laugh but also I genuinely have questions.

morning folks

apologises for going awol. long story short, jan and feb were rough (i swear, i was probably spending more time with doctors and vets than a med/vetmed student does) and it’s meant i’m behind on everything, and writing/posting just completely disappeared from the schedule.

the plan is to spend march trying to sort my life out again. hopefully come april, i’ll be able to start posting once a fortnight or something.

thanks to the people who are still around + hope everyone’s had a decent start to their year :)

haha jesus just realized i haven't posted here beyond like, surface level liveblogging/queueblogging in a hot second

check the tags before clicking the readmore pls !

this is a lot of just brain rambling bc i have been bottling this up so i'm sorry in advance

for those of you that don't follow my main (beware, here be griefposting), my cat passed away last month, and like. you'd think it'd be easier bc i work in vetmed or whatever, except it's not. and in fact it's almost worse, because i know more than the average person, y'know?

anyway i just realised that i'm still processing grief, which sucks because i fucking hate grief, it's messy and destructive and ugly and it hurts. get over it already, you fuck /s

anyway! i have requests in the inbox i have wanted to work on since i got them, but Kitty's decline was slow, and my job is hard, and all of this is to say they're coming, and hopefully i will post more regularly again here...soonish. i know y'all don't give a fuck about the art as long as i'm cool but i fear i must compulsively justify why i am not providing y'all with the art anyway or i'll spontaneously combust. or something.

also: i would prefer that if you want to send condolences/say anything about this at all that you please just like the post instead. my brainworms have a hard time when people are nice to me about uncontrollable parts of life, you see.

i think this was sufficiently incoherent enough to be slightly worrying probably. sorry about that. i just needed to talk about it for a second or i would explode, etc.

tl;dr i miss this space, back in full Soon™ ♥️

I'm really hoping that when I'm at a place where I'm actually living in my apartment all the time I'll be able to find a clinic that's willing to take me on a part time schedule

I know for a fact I just can't do vetmed full time for survival ("if you love what you do you never work a day in your life" is blatantly false, if you're clawing for survival working 40+ hours in your dream setting but not making enough to eat or pay rent you burn out and begin to resent what you love because you're backed into a fucking corner) but I miss it so fucking much

It feels really reassuring to miss it... like idk something to hold onto and look forward to, something I anticipate getting involved in again, and knowing that despite the hardships surrounding it I still love it and it's still one of my paths u know ...?

✨ MANNY LIFE UPDATE ✨

ohhhhh my god. life is stressful when you make an entire career change that also includes an entire day to day change. i went from vetmed & working nights to shelter management and working days. which has been amazing and i’m literally working my dream job.

anyway; i’m still here and still editing! i have outlines for new projects but i’m not starting anything new until my WIPs are done. my hope is that now that my training is done and my schedule is set (thank GOD) i can start writing regularly and still get enough sleep!! once i’m ready to start posting again i’ll be queuing up my work and i’ll post a schedule! love you all

how did demi know she wanted to go into vetmed? what was her experience opening her own clinic (being that she's the only vet in haines?)

she always loved animals and knew she wanted to go into some kind of caretaking/helping profession when she grew up!! because she did well in school, teachers always suggested that she become a doctor, but demi was wary and didnt think she'd fare well in an intense environment. when she started volunteering at the animal shelter in middle/high school to escape her home life, demi decided to become a vet instead, as she preferred spending time with animals over people. her goal throughout vet school was to open her own clinic in an area like haines where there wasnt a lot of readily available animal care, so she already had some plans in place when she graduated and immediately went back home to get things started + take care of her family. she was able to take out a loan and purchase the animal shelter, which had closed down while she was at school due to lack of support. it was a pretty small space initially, but she'd expand it over the years. she really focused on establishing the clinic and getting new patients after samantha and josephine died so that she'd be able to fully support the rest of her family, and worked to advertise her practice to this and other counties nearby as a source of emergency veterinarian care. this led to a lot of chaos early on until demi was able to hire a vet tech and, eventually, a receptionist, at which point her practice became less stressful for her and more like the job she'd always envisioned for herself :)