Tomorrow is the BIG Day!

     After 11 years and many tears of joy and sorrow, tomorrow is finally the big day...my first day as a clinician in training! My first rotation starts with Theriogenology, which is just a fancy doctor word for reproduction medicine. I can't say I am not overwhelmed with excitement that my first rotation is one in which I have years of experience, not many can say they are happy about starting out with their arm up the rectum of a variety of animals! However, one downfall is this rotation is not in the OSU Teaching Hospital but on a ranch about 10 miles away. So all the other students will know there way around the hospital, which is a modern day maze, after their first 3 week long rotation. Where as when I begin my second rotation, Food Animal Medicine, I will be wondering around lost for days.
     Everyone keeps asking me if I am excited and I wish I could honestly answer....."Yes, after over a decade of wondering if I would ever make it to this point, I am overwhelmed with excitement and joy to finally be here!" However, I would be lying like a coon dog on the front porch! I am TERRIFIED! Not a moment goes by that I don't feel the vomit creeping up in my throat and the turn of my stomach as if I were on a roller coaster. But as the saying goes, this too shall pass.
     I want to dedicate my very first blog post to my sweet angel mother. She flew to Oklahoma and spent here entire "vacation" running around crazy and making several trips a day to Walmart to make sure I had all my uniforms perfectly hung in my closet, my lunch packed up, homemade sugar free granola bars stocked in the frig, and of course nagged me excessively until I agreed to start a blog where my friends and family could read about my crazy days in the life of a vet student!