Just another midterm monday...

Yes. Yes. Monday midterms = The WORST. It totally kills the buzz for the weekend... Alas, 6 down and 5 more to go. Today was Health Management which I was very excited for. Here I was thinking, "Finally! A subject I am good at!" For heaven's sake, I have already taken HM in undergrad, read all the notes, practiced with the old midterms... it should have been a breeze. But what I wrote today was NOTHING even close to that. I am hoping that I used my most educated logic and guessing skills and will make it out okay. I am really not quite sure what made the test so hard. There was a LOT of vague behaviour and general HM stuff; no real focus of the species specific industries (which we spent 20 of the 30 lectures on!!). Either way, I was not the most upset; there were some girls who came out in angry tears because they felt so unfairly tested and went STRAIGHT to the program co-ordinator. :S Bell curve?!?

Challenge Cup (an OVC only Hockey tournament with Prof teams) is under way. As for the Stags, we are not doing so well thus far. Coed team lost 6-0 (to the Scalpelbladers!) and the Women lost 3-0. We did however get our jerseys... Makes us look super spiffy! And like an actual team.

One of our upcoming midterms is my Clin Med Small Animal Exam. This is a practical exam with just the student, the examiner, and a hound dog. We have to talk through and perform a general physical exam; head to tail. This shouldn't be too hard. I plan on just talking about what I should see, what I am looking for, and what I actually see (slash feel!). Will be tough without my thermometer since it broke in Oct, but I'll find someone's to borrow.

Christmas party at the Frat this weekend. First year girls are traditionally the decorators, but since there is a shortage of second year girls, I will be helping them cook. the first year boys "liberate" a christmas tree and the second year boys clean up. And we all drink. Haha! Speaking of parties, our Stag Bar Night was a great success. We had 163 people attend and made almost $600; half for our class, half for a children's charity. We also have Pet Pictures with Santa this weekend too! Can't wait to see all the pets come out and get all snuggley with Santa! Should be adorable! I plan on taking Soc in so we have a good holiday picture together! he will hate every minute of it, but I don't really care! Haha! He'll be safe, no worries!

If I have time this week I'll give you a synopsis of the CCM which we are learning in AVM. It is kind of straight forward but definitely takes some practice to perfect. I have to practice this break because we jump into our client simulated interviews in Jan. :)

More fun words.

Prehension = To bring food to the mouth (we use our hands and forks, cows use their lips and tongues!)
Mastication = Chewing food
Deglutition = Swallowing a bolus of food
Zygapophyses = Articulation between cervical vertebrae
Tachycardia = Fast heart rate
Brachycardia = Slow heart rate
Halitosis = Bad breath
Blepharospasm = Squinting (eyes)
Eructation = Burping
Cirrhosis = Chronic Liver Disease
Atelectasis = Collapsed Lung

Rumen with a View!

So today we had our digestive physiology lab where we got to explore the rumen of a live cow. There is a small herd of ~15 cows on the UofG campus that are fistulated (have rubber windows in their sides). these are surgically implanted and seriously do not effect the cow in any major way. They are teaching animals that allow students to get a better understanding of the muscular and digestive capabilities of a rumen. The rumen is so big and strong that they don't feel anything really, we do be more sensitive around the esophageal opening because boluses are continually coming in and we don't want to create back flow. One of our guys has such long arms that he was able to reach into the reticulum and retrieve the hardware magnet so the prof could clean it off for her!!! (Magnets are fed to the cows to prevent Hardware disease. They catch stray metal that may have been ingested and prevents it from puncturing the wall of the reticulum and puncturing the heart!) A very cool opportunity for us!

Rectal palpation glove on and to the shoulder!! I am short so I had to get on my tippy-toes!

This is not manure.... yet! This was the digesta we had to clear from her stomach so we could feel something! this was about half of the fill, and of course we put it back!!!

Movember

Wow. So busy!
Grand Council:
A hot hot mess. SO MUCH FUN!! However, just a mess of alcohol and destruction! The Betas did a fantastic job of hosting. What a beautiful city and campus.... and frat house! Until the Deltas showed up. We have a reputation that did not tarnish this year of causing as much trouble as possible... so we did that. hhaha. We had a "Toga" party n which we dressed in Gonzo gear, Gonzo Olympics (which was held in a field with a keg of beer in it!!!), Fancy dinner and guest speakers, a hilighter rave (so we went in all black), and then toured campus and the local waterfalls!! Unfortunately, Cornell would not allow me to take pictures in the building... but I have some of the campus!

Halloween:
We had the OTS Haunted House, the Frat Halloween party, and Trick-or-Eat.
Haunted house was fun, not as many people as I thought there'd be, but we really pulled out all the stops!!! My team were an autopsy room, dissecting "cadavers" which jumped to life.

Frat party got wild quick... ended up getting spilt up by the police... :( but a great time anyway!! Plus we just moved to a different house to continue the party anyway! hahaha

And if you are unfamiliar with TrickorEat go to http://www.trickoreat.ca/. Our OVC team had 26 members!! We ended up completing 5 routes!!! So proud of my classmates!!!

Look at all the donated food!!!

Midterm Update:
Well I got a great mark on my clin med midterm. That made me feel good! Then I got my histo mark... 58%. WHICH IS A PASS!!!! :D I know this is a poor mark, but 1/3 the class failed AND all the upper years said it is more common than not to fail this first histo test. My goal was to pass and I did!! :) I wrote Neurophysiology on Monday so no mark yet. I feel that because I spent the weekend doing Halloween stuff, I really did not study as hard as I know I should have... so bad K, but what can you do... work harderfor the next one!!! Anatomy Viva Voce Friday! Need to study lots more!!

Movember:
Officially started!!!! I have a Movember page so please support me in my goal to raise money to fight against Prostate cancer!!! http://mosista.co/kmarinac