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Saturday, November 16, 2002

so i went to the emergency club wet lab. they had maybe 5 dogs and 2 cats that had already been euthanized and we did different emergency-type procedures on them. it was kinda creepy cause we didn't know how long they had been dead but blood was oozing out of every orifice. not too pleasant. plus most of the dogs i think looked like miss cleo. anyway we practiced epidurals which i'm not sure if i ever got in the right place. inserted feeding tubes, i don't remember exactly what it was called, maybe oesophagostomy. you make an incision in the cervical region, pull the tube out through the mouth and then fed it down the esophagus. i actually didn't try that. we didn't have the best tools to do it on the dog. we tried bone marrow aspiration but didn't really get anything back but got to stick the needle in the bone. did tracheotomies, incising between rings and sticking in trach tube. put in chest tubes. made skin incision near ribs and stuck tube up towards the head and then pushed the tube down right through the intercostal space and then up into the thorax. it was all pretty interesting. was there over 2 hours.

came home and ran for about 90 min. and then took a shower. now i'm writing this and baking butternut squash and watching some hillside stranglers movie on lifetime.

goodnight

hi billy, i love you!
your mommy in kansas

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