#vti student

[bnjelly]

I studied so hard this morning omg my brain hurts. Taking 2 exams in one day really wears me out once I get home but I’m glad it’s over and done with. I wish I could take a nap but gotta study.

[bnjelly]

Most of my glasses were about an hour I think time longest glass was Animal anatomy and physiology 1. Term 2 consisted of 3 glasses for me. That being Clinical medicine, Animal Technology 2 and Clinical laboratory.

Clin med was mostly about breeds this term. Learning all types of cows, horses,pigs, cats,and dogs,no exotics at all. They touch alittle on exotics later in the programs. The course also went over vaccines and illnesses like feline leukemia and why some may require vaccines and others don’t.

Animal tech went over blood draws, injections , and catheters. I did a good amount of blood draws and saline injections in this class. I very informative but alittle disorganized. Which could be stressful depending on what type of learner you are and the teacher teaching methods. No catheters are done on real animals btw.

Clin lab is learning and using the microscope. Getting comfortable and used to it. The way my teacher preferred us to learn help me feel ALOT more comfortable with them by the times finals came around. She just had days where that was the only thing we were using and she’d help if needed. Other than that, Red blood cells, alittle about white blood cells, the lifespan of them, and the difference between species of cell lifespans. If you like cells you’ll be good in this class.

A&P 1 goes over basic knowledge of the animal body such as muscles, nerves, bones, skin and directional terms like caudal, dorsal, cranial etc.

[bnjelly]

So term 2 was a smooth transition from beginner work to intermediate. I say that because the work load to study dramatically increased but the assignments and tests were simple. Not very intricate in questioning what you should know. Test questions were at a very mild level for the smoking of material sometime complex material I had to study. Teachers focused on big pictures meanings.

[bnjelly]

Omg so yesterday was cool I got to help out with these little kittens that just came in. It’s nine of them total and a couple of them are sooo freaking sweet. I already picked out my favorite one his name is cosmo he’s the creamy color one and my tech teacher did a demonstration of a cephalic catheter with two assistants (2 other teachers) so that everyone in the class room could see. It was super cool. She did the demo on a fake limb which is what we used to practice on. I felt really grateful to work with the kitties knowing only certain people can take care of them as they’re quarantined right now. Lab was fun too. We used the centrifuge, the refractometer because we were learning about erythrocytes and plasma. Like what colors of plasma mean what and like what the mean corpuscular volume is of our hematocrit.

[bnjelly]

She was soooooooo sweet!! Look at those fingers so tiny

I didn’t know kitten had such long nails

Second week of term I had to go peak in the quarantine room. We got some new kittens. I forgot her name but week 2 hit me hard I the workload was alittle hard but it could have been my mindset.

My mind was out of it the first week and it was worse the second week. The work load seems more in depth in second term it was hard to keep up. But I finished first term with a 3.0 gpa.

[bnjelly]

Week 1 of term 2 was really chill but I getting back to it felt weird. Like remembering when to study, how I studied and getting back to dog walking and the routine I had.

[bnjelly]

Term 2 is a lot more peaceful that last term already. We had a test Friday on lab equipment but j had to skip that class for medical reasons so I’ll take it Monday. But, in tech class, Friday we had our first skills day of the term. We had to bring our skills book and a mask since we’d all be working closely together.

It was fun! We did subcutaneous and intramuscular injections. Half of us chose one type of injection and the other half chose the other.

It was cats day so we all had an opportunity to work on a cat of our choice depending on the group. We injected them with saline because it was practice and afterward we just practice proper technique on how to on how to use a syringe and fill it properly.

[bnjelly]

Spring break is here!!! I passed all my classes which I will say it wasn’t hard to do but it was tedious. Term 1 has come to a finish. The animals will be back after spring break and term 2 will begin. I’m not ecstatic about my exam scores but there’s always next term to to outdo myself. I’ve never felt such wear and tear on my brain like that before from exams. Finals weeks was pretty rough on me but the tests themselves were pretty easy for the especially for those who studied. I walk chomper yesterday morning. He is the sweet Pitt bull with chocolate spots. He loves his toys but he’ll go crazy if you try to take the them. When I was walking him he had mistaken my hoodie for his toy and we were playing tug of war outside for a couple minutes because he wouldn’t let go. He’s a really big boy, I eventually got my hoodie back in one piece and he resumed playtimes. But that was little scary lol. Once i got home i did my hair and ate some Spanish food while I caught up on a couple shows. And went to bed and got some DECENT sleep. It felt like I was running on fumes all month long.

I love chomper, he’s so cute.

Antonio is the black cat and that’s buster looking down one me.