Vet Student at Košice

Millie was a ~6 month old kitten that I found at the university farm, on 24/03/2023. Here she is at the clinic, those black spots of her top lip are actually big scabs She had dirty ears and scabs on her face, but was so sweet and affectionate. I scooped her up and took her to the clinic, and then home.  I didn't have a carrier to bring her back in, so I used a tote bag - she soon escaped this but was happy to sit on my lap Millie had a ear yeast infection, secondary to an ear mite infestation - I was given some ear drops for her (Mitex) to give her 2x a day for 7 days. Once that was dealt with, I took her to get her vaccinations. She had a mild upper respiratory tract infection too, so she was given some eye drops (and some ear cleaner as her ears were still a bit dirty). Her favourite toys are paper bags and tin foil balls. Millie is so playful and affectionate, she was a real treat to look after She settled in right away, and before long, she was adopted by a woman in Austri...

Going back to school as someone who took some years out of education was a big adjustment. I remember saying (any my parents love to remind me) "I never have to any exams ever again!" when I graduated the first time. It's been a big learning curve, and I do think it was softened by the pandemic - online learning in my own space was much more comfortable than being alone in a different country. That isn't to say that it was easy (it wasn't), but I did make some purchases that made the learning process easier. Technology purchases 1. iPad     This, unfortunately, was the best purchase I've ever made for learning. I got the iPad mini 6 (2021), and I absolutely adore it. I use it every single day - mostly for looking at the lecture slides, making notes in practicals, googling things on the fly (and not looking super rude by pulling my phone out). I went for the mini over the regular sized ones because it makes it 100x more portable. I prefer writing on smaller not...

Monday Monday is always a brutal day to start the week on - a 7:15 wake up for diagnostic pathology, immediately into diseases of poultry, and finishing the morning with internal diseases of small animals. These lectures are normally very interesting, but my brain doesn't turn on until much later in the day.  After a short lunch break, I head into uni for my poultry practical. It was a pretty rough one today (they normally are anyway, we do a necropsy of a chicken each week, and if you've smelt chickens and death, you can imagine how bad it smells). We were talking about embryo development and hatching eggs today, then we opened up some eggs - one unfertilised (from Tesco), and 2 that had embryos in them. One of them was already dead, but the other one wasn't yet. It was quite upsetting to see a 15 day old embryo die, especially as some of my classmates were prodding and pulling at it. I know it's "just a chick", and thousands of chicks die every day, but it w...