Category: The Filipino Vet Student

Ah, these past three days have been really exhausting, but full of good things. On Friday me and my junior clinician group headed down to UP Diliman to finish up our first week of Companion Animal clinics at the teaching hospital. To tell you frankly, it was a lot of fun, but some of the clients that I dealt with weren’t really interested in their pets. We had some interesting cases, but I felt that the majority of people I…

While I was away from the internet world I’ve been busying myself with exams and also tons of surgeries. For those of you who don’t already know, we have to run a surgery each week. We do our pre-operative exams on Tuesdays and then perform the actual procedure on the animal on the following Thursday. This gives us enough time to see if our animals we picked are fit for surgery. This past week I was the head surgeon for…

Or at least it seems like it! I’m sorry for not commenting on this blog earlier. Like I said before, my internet was cut off about a week and a half ago due to the monsoon that occurred here then. What happened I found out later was that the monsoon had brought down a telephone pole (might I add, it was the ONLY telephone pole in the area) near my place which happened to supply my internet. So, after a…

So I’m here in an internet shop in the middle of Los Banos. My internet during the last few days has been down because of the crazy storm we had a couple of days ago. The internet shop is filled with people screaming mostly because they’re playing their MMOs (massively-multiplayer online games) and it’s a little annoying, but then again, it’s an internet shop which specializes in gaming. Guess I can’t really complain there. I am in THEIR territory after…

The combination might not seem like it goes together, but it does tonight. Especially for me! It was another exhausting day for me. Started off with pathology lab where we first needed to get horse blood and examine it. Then afterwards we had our research class, physiology class, and then a pre-operative examination for our next surgical procedure at the Tabon Veterinary Teaching Hospital. I’ll be Assistant Surgeon for the procedure which is esophagostomy. My friend Faye will be heading…

So today I didn’t have such a great day. I kinda lost one of our dogs and most of the day was spent looking for her. Then, I had to work on a Pathology report that we thought should’ve taken only and hour or two but took five instead. After that I made some dinner, which was some Temaki-sushi (hand-rolled sushi) with yummy tuna and cucumber and some seaweed. It was my first time making some sushi-rice and it was…

And it certainly is true. It’s about 10pm right now and I’m just about to go to bed. Today was an exhausting day with classes and lab up until 3pm. At that point I was the anesthetist for our surgical procedure (which wasn’t really surgical, I suppose) which was for tartar removal. The procedure went well… the dog we treated now has whiter teeth than me. 😛 Tomorrow I’ll be headed to the University of the Philippines: Diliman to go…

I know I’ll be having a lot of these types of days in the near future, but today was just a lot of fail. Not in a totally horrible sense, but in general it was just frustrating. I woke up at 5:30 this morning to get ready for class and to help my friends James and Belle get their dog for a pre-operative examination since we had a class at 7:30. This week our surgical procedure is a simple tartar…

Just came back from an exhausting day at school. Not to mention it was raining immensely again today. I think we’re in the middle of monsoon season… today the rain just poured and poured and poured. While looking back at my blog I’ve made a few tweaks… and added a few things to make the site more dynamic. There’s now a “Featured Posts” sliding display at the top of the main page. There you’ll see some of the posts that…

What a rainy day today! Earlier this morning I went out to pick up some food and earlier this afternoon my Pathology groupmates Belle and James came over to complete a report on blood smears and examination of red blood cells. But now it’s totally pouring. I heard a strike of thunder and then the sky started crying. I guess it’s the start of the Philippines’ rainy season. Recently, I’ve been watching a cartoon series called Avatar: The Last Airbender…

So our first surgery of the year has been completed, and it was as tiring as heck! During this semester, I’m in Surgery II, which means that this time around, instead of learning the fundamentals of going into surgery, we will actually be conducting real surgeries on different systems each week. That means we always need at least a cat or dog to take care of each week of the year. Tuesdays are our pre-operative days where we run all…

So today I just wrapped up my 2nd day at UP Diliman. For the last two weeks we were to report to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital in the University of the Philippines: Diliman in Manila for a two-part orientation. Today we wrapped it up and had some fun in the end. Now, before I go on, I have to tell you guys that I’m feeling really under the weather right now and I’m not sure how much I will really…