A quick run down of our lives the last 2 months
- End of May to the 17th of June, I did my Ag animal rotation. It was AMAZING!!! I learned so much! My first patient was a day old baby camel! She stayed for a week, I bottle fed her, put a halter on her, ultrasounded her, completed physical exam twice a day, gave injections, did a ton of paper work, and a bunch of research
- Other cool things I got to do
- Delivering piglets (I actually got to pull 2 piglets out into the world)
- learned how to amputate toes from cows
- confidently nerve block a cow for dehorning/debudding and complete the dehorning
- gain confidence doing physical exams on multiple species
- spending hours talking with clinicians about anything and everything
- collected and ran fecals (looking for parasites in poop)
- gave injections to sheep and drew blood
- Placed the 'holding' (the layer of tissue that has to stay together to prevent the incision site from reopening) sutures on cow that we did an exploratory surgery on
- My good friend, Brooklin, and I started meeting at 5 am almost every morning for a workout! Right now we are doing Insanity and once we finish we are going to do P90x. I love it!
- I lost over 15 pounds while Randy was away! I was really proud of myself for this one. I have never been able to consistently stick with a healthy lifestyle. I actually like eating veggies every day. I have more energy and just feel good.
- I went fly fishing for the first time! Mitch got to come. I caught 6 fish- way more then I thought I would. I went with Lorriane, my boss at WADDL. We drove 3 hours to the most beautiful river I have ever seen - the Selway.
- I have strengthened my relationship with my Savior and Heavenly Father. My faith in Their love and concern for me grew. I was never left alone while Randy was gone. I have come to know them better.
- One of my best friends since 5th grade, Christina Erekson, was married in the St. George temple
- The Monday after Randy got home, he left go to to Spokane to help his parents. I have the best husband. He is always willing to help others. Within a few hours of being home, he mowed the lawn, helped do the dishes, and straighten the house.
- I went up to Spokane Tuesday night for the Stratton (Randy's mother's side) reunion. There were about 40ish people there. We came home last night (Saturday)
- Randy and I went out to dinner with some friends- Natalie and Brandon Piper. While we were visiting, Natalie mentioned she was going to start preparing to go to the temple!!!! And she asked me to be her escort!!!!!!!!!! Can you say happiness!!!! They are planning to be sealed soon afterwards. I screamed in the middle of the Applebee's parking lot.
- Shannon and I sang at the memorial for Grandpa Merle Stratton. At the end we sang was "How Great Thou Art". About half way through the first verse, everyone joined in with us without any prompting. It was an incredible experience.
- I rode my horse three times!
- I banded and vaccinated one of the goat kids
- Vaccinated Mitch
- Gave horse rides to kids
- Made lots of 'salads' (an assortment of concoctions based on Cool whip)
- Played in the creek- it was soo hot
- Mitch had so much fun with all the people and running around outside. We wore him out and hasn't moved much since we got home.
- As for now, I am working as much as possible with the bighorn sheep (including feeding lambs) and at WADDL and Randy is looking for the next job or HOPEFULLY master's program
