On Monday I get to scrub up -- surgical mask and cap and all! -- and hold the bladder while my boss removes a bunch of large bladder stones from a one-year-old dog. I'm excited to be able to gain some literal hands-on experience in assisting with surgery; the more things that I get the opportunity to do in an animal hospital setting, the more I want to go ahead and get certified as a veterinary technician just to keep my options open in the future, because this stuff is so interesting to me. It's nice having skills, but I'm starting to get bored with the routines of fecal exams and heartworm tests; my boss keeps trying to teach me venipuncture on the jugular vein, but it's been pretty impossible for me so far... how do you find the vein with all that fur!?
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