I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth.  I’m having some health issues –> nothing extremely serious but enough to keep me barely functional in school and it’s unfathomable for me to even think about trying to do anything like blogging.  Dizzy, nauseous, +/- vertigo.  I managed to free lunge Farley at the beginning […] more

Mel’s Literature cheat sheet

We are continuing on the topic of how to evaluate a study –> the scenario is this: you have an issue, you have sought the best advice you can from friends, mentors, and vets, and you want to see what the most current literature has to say on a particular subject. How do evaluate studies? […] more

An open letter to my classmates

…And whoever else who is tempted to immediately complain that something in education isn’t working and there needs to be immediate changes so that it is an effective learning experience for them as an individual.  We are in a class of over 130 people.  There is a subset of those 130 people that do really […] more

Testing the Test

Since we last talked I have finished the Onco block, started the Infectious Dz block, taken up snowboarding (shared activity with the boyfriend) and have watched Farley become almost 99.99% sound again. It was almost certainly not an abscess, “just” a softening of that old wire scar which caused some pain/discomfort. I say “just” because […] more

Welcome to my life

I couldn’t have said it better myself: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Regardinghorses/~3/3Dxv3S6cg4A/   Posted with Blogsy more

Studies, lameness, and other opportunities for critical thinking

Farley is lame. At first I thought it was a hoof abscess. It was a reasonable conclusion – there is a ton of mud right now, combined with a relatively small pen, and not much riding or turn out, coupled with a sudden onset, acute, toe touching lameness. However, now I think it’s related to […] more

Things more interesting than studying for the onco test tomorrow

Proving that I don’t make this sh*t up   Playing with the cat Doing house work. The house is by no means clean, but the dishwasher is at least running. And it distracted me from looking at onco for a whole 20 minutes. Deciding to demonstrate how big Jonah actually is. You can see the […] more

« Previous PageNext Page »