well.

maynard status: he's fine but i am missing him.









lauren officially said good-bye to her twenties as of 2/26/07. awwwww....

we celebrated with drinks and elekibass. good times -- some more than others.

then.....anybody remember this? i never learn.
i'm sending the shot bully to elba.

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i came upon this peaceful moment.
look at satchel not chasing the cats. good satchel.

also, i went a little susie homemaker crazy while herschel was gone. i made some curtains and then i went psycho on the couches. i covered all of the pillows that satchel had chewed up. so our couch went from the two pillows that were untouched to.......find the pets.

no matter.
i like it.

coming up:
*mom's birthday!
*scrabble tournament
*marathon
*2 blocks straight of internal medicine. bleh.
*1 block of oncology
*graduation. it's true
*real world
*a two income household

monday.

i'm not sure either.
trees? and is that a luggage tag?

the point i'm trying to make here is that my foot hurts. my left heel to be exact. i'm gimpy and i felt the need to whine about it.

in other news:
*herschel made it to st. louis after his first flight was cancelled due to "maintenance issues". "this" is why i don't like to fly. anyway, lost luggage and a nose bleed later and he's had what you call a day.

*team leggett made it to illinois. they are going to meet up with hersch later and have fun. without me. a road trip. without me. i'm not bitter. i'm having tons of fun here. i just cleaned up satchel's poop from the living room floor. how does it get better than that i ask you? should have taken a picture of it so that you guys could experience my fun.

*the only thing i miss about the classroom days of vet school: skipping. you can't miss days in clinics unless you have a good excuse (and even then you have to make them up somehow which could mean staying after graduation -- not worth it.) still miss skipping though.

tooting my own horn.

i just ran 21 miles complete with mean hills. by my standards that makes me special. rockin' sidney thinks so too. he also digs burt reynolds movies and is the vice-president of the smoky and the bandit appreciation society.

i hurt all over, i can't get warm and i have chafing in places i'd rather not but i am starting to feel my ears again so that's good. and i'm still special. at least for the day.

i got me the wanderlust. bad.

i've been giving a lot of thought to my fruit stand which led to me looking for pictures of basel and venice which led to a bad case of 'i want to go ____' (insert anywhere).

here are some pictures:

first, basel switzerland which i think needs me.



then, venice. where there are already many established fruit stands. i coud start as apprentice and work my way up to manager.

ultimately, i will have this beauty.......now that is a place to buy fruits

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in my actual life:

*pest needs to learn to shut her face in the mornings...there's no sleeping late around here unless getting bitten on the fingers and elbow are something that soothes you. i'm not bitter.

*sadly, i took no pictures of my creation for ultrasound but picture a 5 liter bag filled with black cherry jello and you'll have pictured henry. henry is no longer with us. the grapes inside turned out to be aggressively malignant and we had to put him down.

coming up:
maynard! if he didn't belong to my friends, i would steal him. seriously. no ethical concerns whatsoever.

i don't like fruit OR jello.

everything you need to become a master of ultrasound-guided needle sticking...minus the ultrasound machine and the needles.

the final product is currently hanging out in the fridge. if it turns out to be as glorious as i expect it to, i'll post a picture. otherwise, you will just have to wonder.

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fyi: i have never made jello before. i had to call my mom to see if it expanded when it chilled.
yes. i did.
in my defense, i have never eaten jello before either so i don't think it's really fair to judge me.
i did have some jello shots in college.
stop judging me.

it doesn't, by the way, expand when chilled.

and:

first annual anti-valentine fat pants night....success.

a view from my perch

herschel's invention (roly lamp made out of what nots and whoosits) in all it's glory....

monkey and my bunion ( i earned that bunion but i will not name it)

i am (supposed to be) preparing a presentation on the (un) exciting world of musculoskeletal ultrasonography. it is (not) fun. it is commonly used (hardly ever) in small animals. i am so glad (bitter) that i received this wonderful (kerappy) topic.
on thursday night, i get to make a jello mold with grapes in it so that i (& my blockmates) can biopsy/aspirate them using ultrasound guidance. i cannot wait to make jello. i am going to decorate it with glitter and macaroni. life could not be better.

in other news:
**i have been giving thought to where i will set up my fruit stand in europe. i am really leaning towards basel, switzerland (because i love that city) and venice (because i saw a very nice fruit stand there that is already established and maybe i could just make an offer and skip all the start up part)

**tomorrow is our first annual anti-valentines fat pants night complete with chinese food.
herschel is even sickly for the occasion. he looks like this............

and now.

i am she leggett's favorite person of the moment. ha ha suckas!

i am now on ultrasound which has turned out to consist of a lot more busy work than i thought. i mean, i had to go to the library today people. what's going on here? i don't even have time to write a big ole update because i have to relearn all the stuff i forgot about ultrasound from my junior year...
quick fact: i stink at poker (sometimes) but rock at scrabble (always)

oh dear.

i disrespected my liver last night.

that's dr. to you.

suckas.

potentially used 6 times

i have potentially passed boards so i will potentially be a-celebratin tomorrow when i potentially know for sure.

i potentially will be running 16 miles in the a.m so i will potentially be a-sittin when i am a-celebratin tomorrow in the p.m

i am potentially very happy and sore simultaneously.

happy plastic.

picture this:
setting: atlanta
time: any time within the last 13 years
me - in the passenger seat giddy with the thought of stopping at the container store. finally! staring longingly out of the car window at the well lit storefront as it whizzes by. sigh.... disappointment.
herschel - in the driver's seat sweating profusely at the thought of having to spend time (lots of it) and money (more than a little) in a store with nothing but boxes. looking at the other side of road avoiding the bright lights of the storefront. sigh...relief

today i will buy a randomly sized container and i will put stuff in it. it will be glorious.

also.
i have been thinking about what my days will be like in mexico. here's what i have so far.
morningish... wake up, consider running but don't, walk to the hammock on the balcony, commence laying, trip to the liquor dispenser in our room, back to the hammock.
eat something, trip to liquor dispenser, walk outside to the beach, lay, get in the pool, swim to the bar, loiter, lay on the beach, have hotel refill liquor dispenser in room, nap
and that's all i have so far. i'm probably going to try and get a little more hammock time in there somewhere.

it's a new flippin year.

well. my theory was that i wasn't posting enough to get the esteemed beta blogger but when i signed on to begin my posting extravaganza - my plan was to update more daily-ish -, i already had it. so. theory busted. i wonder if nemesis has it yet?

anyhoo.
i will now update on the life of me:

*i pulled my tookus/caboose-- insert word of choice here -- yesterday. it's not funny. it's also no fun. i am resting it. it is getting better

*i think sewing machines are stupid - especially "bobbins". they are my new found enemy and i won't rest until they are obsolete. i was trying to "sew" but that machine is too complicated for me. sure, it looks simple but, that bobbin just sits there and mocks you. it's unnecessary. i decided i would just do it by hand but i can't find the needles. my spirit is broken. my bag straps....unfinished.

*i ingest way too much sugar. this combined with the aforementioned rear-end will do me in.

*i'm on community practice right now which is a nice change of pace since just about all of the patients are actually healthy. i play with puppies and kittens all day. poor me. it's not all fun and games though as i nearly had my eye taken out today by the skillful talons of cooper the 4 month old black lab who played himself into a frenzy. it can get pretty hairy down at the cpc (that's community practice clinic for those in-the-know)

*i just read this back over and have decided that at some point in my life i started putting whatever punctuation marks wherever. this, combined with my dislike of capital letters, could lead down a dark road. next thing you know, i'm skipping every third word and not typing in silent letters.

...maybe i will post again tomorrow

happy day o birth big brother.

here's to you being older than me :)

wait for it

it's almost time for a chauncey family portrait....

ain't no sunshine on opto.

we are getting a king size! it goes for days.
i heart it.

coming soon:
*tryptophan fun time with family turkeys
* birthday fun time with she leggett
*aquarium and pink pig fun time with jansen
*stress induced fun time with national board examiner
*happy fun time with jack daniels

technology is stupid.

except for robots.





i hate communication- especially email.

because i feel like whining.

ever feel like you have too much to do?
i have a lot of kerap to do right now but it only makes want to do something else. i have been a decluttering fool for the past couple of days and have been doing everything except that which i need to do which includes:
*finishing my extended case write up for necropsy
*doing an extended case write up for emergency (it's only 3-4 weeks overdue)
*deciding once and for all whether or not i want to do an internship and - if i do- getting all that mess together before december 5th (all that mess being filling out the application, getting letters of recommendation, writing a cv, and deciding where i could uproot our happy little family to for at least a year) -- this is the big one in case you couldn't tell.
*finishing my project for my clin path clerkship which is due in two days and will be put online for all the world to enjoy

oh and...

*study for boards

i have been working on all but have finished nada. i suck. however, i have made my firefox browser so april-friendly.




i can't wait for muxico.









i would like one of these but i don't know what they are for. All of those little words underneath the picture would probably tell me but it can't possibly live up to my imagination so i choose to ignore them. stupid words.

that's shazam.

*first. this picture makes me happy.............









*second. meet leonard: he's a fun loving basset that enjoys scratches, scratching and vocalizing like no other. he's not ashamed of his helmet/bandage or his shave job and he likes to tell you about it. loudly.

*and this is sam (aka my lovebug) who had a history of intermittent coughing for, oh, 3-5 years or so. his entire right lung was collapsed. we took it out but we have no idea why it was that way.
i:
*am losing the find it game.
*cut all my hair off
*am on a soy nut kick. can't get enough.
*am also enjoying the eggs. can't help it
*require more fat pants/movie watching days
*have 51 days until boards
*love running again
*love running with my nano
*am still fabulous despite not having posted in a long time
*am excited about me-hi-co
*will win poker this weekend
*am mentally done with cutting up dead things
*am not physically done until friday. there's a difference
*am going to go learn about parasites now
*am really going to go to sleep now

i require cookies daily

some updates:
*i start soft tissue surgery tomorrow...

*my favorite neurology patient scooter (that's scooter patooter to you) has a screaming bartonella infection. the levels of bacteria in his blood have even made this guy excited -- which is saying quite a bit. he's been coming around with his little video camera grinning like this is the best thing ever.

*i started running again (which means i have to get up at five flippin thirty in the a.m) and, in true april style (meaning impulsive and getting too excited too early), have signed up for the new atl. marathon. i know.

*my niece is the cutest thing ever.

* i swung by the surgery wards on my way out today to check out tomorrow's appointment schedule... i've got my eye on a 10 o'clock by the name of herschel. i'm going to go ahead and guess that it's a bulldog but i could be wrong.

*my feet are looking pretty bad. i am treating meself to a pedicure. one day. maybe soon.






*i need a haircut. bad.






*i'm sounding pretty attractive right now with the bad feet and the crystal gale hair...

*my parents' new house rocks and the eating is good.................

because

one day i will post something new.

it's official.

happy day o love to team leggett!

good bye med II. hello surgery.

now don't be alarmed.... sunspot 896 has dissolved.

in other news:
i have the cutest surgery patient ever.
sadie the boxer managed to impale herself on a stick while out and about one day. sadie is now in ward E.23 sans stick. sadie is also quite shy and will not use the bathroom with anyone near her. however, i can't let her off leash because she has tubes coming out of her body and she will chew at them if given a chance. didn't go to the bathroom all day. poor poor sadie.

my first truly difficult client update:
*has an appointment on monday for a dang ole nephrectomy man. guess who the lucky student is that gets her? yes. correct. me.
*lives in macon. i gave her mom and dad's phone number and address in case she wants someone new to complain to
*has me doing pull ups and dead lifts (cape fear style) in case i have to smack her in the mouth -- the chicken wing is looking tough (will be. sometime. in the future)

because i should be doing something else.

what have i done today?
* given about five enemas (i'm pretty good at them because i gave 3 or 4 yesterday. lucky me.)
*ate lunch around 7pm
*discharged a sweet dog with a less than sweet owner (my first truly difficult client. single tear trickling down my cheek....)
*tried to explain to an owner over the phone that i could not tell if their already neurologic dog had neurologic side effects from a medication
*found sweet treats in my freezer. i heart team leggett. they heart my sweet tooth. it's a good situation.

what am i doing now?
*soaps
*reading about stuff
*sulking at the empty house around me

what will i do tomorrow?
*enemas
*spend 18million hours in endoscopy
*read stuff
*bask in sweet, sweet ignorance (smiling all the time.)

what will herschel do?
1. will he dance the whirling dervish in out west?
2. will he shine in his upcoming star trek movie?
3. will he be able to post a picture of the week?
4. will he be forced to open the emergency box of granola bars?
5. will his luggage be ripped apart to get at the jumper cables inside? (yes. jumper cables...he's all mine ladies, step back.)

stacy!

i've really got nothing much to talk about but it's been awhile hasn't it?
anyhoo.

things i've done:
*the bodies exhibit
*cleaned off my desk
*slept
*did my three weeks in large animal surgery -- no kicks to the head thank you very much
*showed a few horses the chicken wing
*ditched the green barn polo
*mastered the art of the epidural (okay not really but i've done a few)
*have probably figured out where one of the immunity herschels is
*dropped my phone in a grate in the barn. dropped the grate on the phone
*got a new phone
*some laundry
*slept at the lake
*i like scotch. it's charlie's fault.

things i'm going to do:
*one and a half more weeks in anesthesia
*sleep (at home, at the lake, in the car on the way to somewhere)
*start running again. at some point. maybe soon. maybe not
*some more epidurals
*sell the green polo
*go pick up that immunity herschel and most likely find another one because i'm just that good
*some more laundry
*keep my desk cleaned off
*eat ice cream everyday. so far so good
*shoot monkey in the face with a mean stream of water every morning until she shuts it up
*pretend that i'm going to start studying for boards soon






renauld update: doing very well thank you. some would say thriving.

marsha marsha marsha.

You Are Jan Brady

Brainy and a little introverted, you tend to think life is a lot worse than it actually is. And while you may think you're a little goofy looking, most people consider you to be a major babe.

What Brady Are You?

my sleep schedule is kaput. i'm a little wired right now but i'm sure large animal surgery is going to fix that.

coming home soon people. prepare for my arrival. i shall need cookies, beer, carrots and hummus and fellowship (or a hamburger or something).








renauld has recently decided to undergo some plastic surgery. he watched remo williams and felt inspired.









patients that i can remember right now:
*wayne -- stray, fractured radius/ulna, a bonafide skin scrape bonanza
*katie - boxer. had her first litter last week, bleeding from the mouth, collapsed -- nasty bleeding ulcer in her mouth, heart is fine (shocking)
*maddie -- rottie -- submandibular edema that has spread down her front legs, lethargy, coughing, v/d -- lymphoma/tick borne disease?
*tinkerbell - long haired chihuahua (i'll admit that she's cute) v/d
*la la - parvo pit puppy
*mrs. lady -- parvo puppy- wire haired terrier. think snatchel cute
---our isolation is in the running for cutest isolation patients of the year---
*roxie - v/d/lethargy/possibly addisonian
*spanky -- IVDD dachsund
*jake - IMTP -- actually turned out to be malignant hepatic histiocytoma. bad stuff.
*niki - aspiration pneumonia or traumatic swelling of the glottis or both
*princess- CHF, big time respiratory distress
*tucker - back
*lucy - greyhound with a fibrocartilagenous embolism
*machka - pulmonary edema, possibly HCM (her sedation for a cardiology consult made her evil. and hungry)

i'm going to try and make myself go to sleep now.

it is officially april 11th.

this painting is entitled "ebs on vacation". i've never seen eb on vacation so i can't comment on the authenticity or accurateness.


happy birthday ebs. hope you have a good one and that you have not grown facial hair in my absence.





coming soon...
* patient updates
* renauld's website
* current mental status
* and more!

ain't no sunshine...

okay so i'm a little popo that the hubs is gone. whatever.
at least i've got work to keep me busy....

patients that i can remember:
goldie- euthanasia gone very very wrong
mrs. flanagan - swollen paw from a too tight bandage
coco -- congestive heart failure
abigail -- acute renal failure
reese -- idiopathic epilepsy
jake -- yikes. platelet count of 1000, might be tick borne
samson -- coughing
lou lou -- dystocia
runner -- intravascular hemolysis and anemia
boomer -- back again. see previous post
daniel -- cushing's?
pokey -- pericardial effusion
drummer -- right atrial mass and pericardial effusion
zollo - pulmonic stenosis, patent foramen ovale, massive pericardial and pleural effusion
killian -- a knight (in full armor) stepped on her paw -- i couldn't have even made that up

i'm missing some but i can't think of them right now. i just woke up for the love of god.
i've been told that i should update on the patients so i'll try and do that next week b/c it's just not happening right now. (be warned that many of my patients were euthanized. so many, in fact, that i told the one of the doctors that i wasn't working with her any more)

when i woke up this morning my eyes were all puffy and felt swollen shut. now that's some hard sleeping.... hopefully my brain will wake up soon

the roomies (there's a new guy. raphael. austrian? ) went to the coast. jealous

i just checked on renauld. he's been hanging out on the porch since yesterday. he's hoping the sun comes around soon b/c it was a little chilly last night. he's a very sassy little plant. i think he would complain a lot if he could and i think this is what renauld probably looks like in the plant world.

w-i-r-e-d.

things i wish:
*that uga had digital radiography b/c it is freaking great
*that i could get a link on cb's hub's site. what does it take for the love of god? is it not enough *that i'm the wifer of his doppelganger? sheesh.
*that people wouldn't feed their animals raw diets
*that it wasn't daylight savings time yesterday b/c i could've used that extra hour of sleep
*that my feet didn't have a funk emanating from them.
*that other people would post besides me, herschel and team leggett. are you intimidated by our fabulousness? it's okay, we don't judge.


**i can pick out lots of stuff on ultrasound now. by my standards that makes me pretty great.

patients:
cody - aspiration pneumonia -- euthanized
murray -- attacked by 3 dogs
sparkles - rimadyl overdose
thelma -- heart myxoma
cannibal -- probably liver cancer that has spread throughout the abdomen
little guy - pancreatitis
copper-- projectile! bloody diarrhea
sylvester -- still hasn't woken up from anesthesia after a day
charlie -- down in the rear
skippy
hershey - don't even get me started
barley -- aspiration pneumonia
roscoe the yorkie -- hives
roscoe the pit-- parvo
bear -- serious bad heartworm disease
czar - kennel cough (yes. some people think that's an emergency and are willing to pay for it)
boomer -- hypochondriac for an owner
ebenezer-- owners FED him a pork chop bone -- a huge chunk o change later and i'll bet they won't do that again
fergie the fat dachsund - mucometra
louie
frosty

i give... can't remember....must sleep... now...