Classes have begun and I think it’s going to take me another week to truly switch into school mode. I have some pretty interesting courses on my schedule and I’m excited to see how things go. Here’s my list:
- Anesthesiology/ Surgery
- Systemic pathology
- Clinical pathology
- Parasitology
- Toxicology
- Pharmacology
I’m a little afraid of pharmacology and toxicology, but the others have been pretty fun so far. We were even encouraged to run fecals on our own pets in parasitology and clinical pathology has us analyzing lab data already. I love it! I keep remembering questions I had while working at a clinic and now I can answer some of them myself. Those vets I used to work for were really, really smart. 
The only negative thing that happened this week was my cat’s eye infection. James started squinting and dripping from both eyes early in the week. He also had some moderate conjunctivitis. Luckily, his vet squeezed him in at the end of the day when I got home from class. He is not happy that I have to sit on him three times a day to put antibiotic ointment in his eyes three times a day, but the discharge and conjunctivitis have almost completely resolved. He still squints a bit and that makes me nervous. My limited ocular pathology knowledge has me worried about a corneal ulcer or something stuck under his third eyelid. I have to take him back to the vet for a recheck anyway, so I can get some of my (probably irrational) fears put to rest then.
It is the first weekend of the semester and I am torn between studying and relaxing. I don’t have anything pressing that I should do right now, but I also want to be as far ahead as possible when things start to get tough. I think I’m going to try to do a little of both. I think it’s going to be a good semester.
