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Post by Solana on Jan 14, 2023 8:18:57 GMT -5
I wish we could keep our new vet in our arena, because she's awesome. There's a microscope in the pharmacy that we use to look at slides of... fluids. If I have time, I like to go and look at the cool, somewhat gross stuff and learn more.
Probably the coolest thing were some cancer cells that were replicating so fast that you could see several of them in mitosis. (Mostly the chromosomes lined up in the middle and the cell starting to split.)
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Post by Rune Lai on Jan 17, 2023 3:35:27 GMT -5
That's kinda cool, except that I hear "cancer cell" and want to swat it with a broom. D: (But the biology major in me agrees... cool to see under a microscope!)
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Post by Solana on Jan 17, 2023 4:53:29 GMT -5
We're swatting them all right... with science! That's why I do what I do.
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Post by Solana on Mar 10, 2023 16:32:34 GMT -5
It is not easy to give a pregnant, bony cow a shot. The first she pulled the needle out and I slashed my finger. (Luckily it was just carprofen.) But I got it on the next time!
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Post by Solana on Apr 28, 2023 15:36:04 GMT -5
Yesterday I got to watch a ferret surgery. Part of my job was to snuggle little Seoul while she was recovering, all wrapped up in a towel like a ferret burrito. She was just wanting to sleep afterwards, but ferrets get hypoglycemia. The vet gave her some sugar water, she chugged it, and then was like, "Oh, play? Time to play?"
We had to do post op check on them today, and both girls chugged their pain medication like a chocolate shake. The ferrets are BFFs, and one of my friends is adopting them both.
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Post by skylark on Apr 29, 2023 14:27:25 GMT -5
D'awww…
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Post by Solana on Jul 20, 2023 15:28:39 GMT -5
And they say videogames don't help you in real life...
This week I had to get another bottle of a medication that was a controlled substance. The safe is opened not only by the combination, but the correct number of spins and an extra step afterwards. Our supernaturally chill VT can't get it, and couldn't get it that day. I offered to try.
I got it on the second attempt.
The practice? Why, when my brothers got to the Shinra mansion in Nibelheim and attempted the safe, they always called me to do it. Mua ha ha...
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Post by Solana on Jul 24, 2023 3:59:32 GMT -5
This weekend I had to work and had a ferret that needed some medicine. (She had some inflammation by some teats.) Now, I adore the ferrets and call them either 'sugar-rushed furry corn snakes' or 'elongated cats'.
After getting the okay and dosages from the vet, I go get a syringe of medicine to give it to her in the mouth. Our ferret is curled up in her cage with her kit. She looks at me, looks at the syringe, and opens her mouth.
What the hell?
I was surprised, but went and gave it. She didn't like the taste, but was a very good girl. So I gave her some pets and cooing how she was the best and cutest ferret.
She did the same thing yesterday. Best of all, the inflammation is already way down.
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Post by Rune Lai on Aug 1, 2023 22:04:25 GMT -5
And they say videogames don't help you in real life... This week I had to get another bottle of a medication that was a controlled substance. The safe is opened not only by the combination, but the correct number of spins and an extra step afterwards. Our supernaturally chill VT can't get it, and couldn't get it that day. I offered to try. I got it on the second attempt. The practice? Why, when my brothers got to the Shinra mansion in Nibelheim and attempted the safe, they always called me to do it. Mua ha ha... I always credited my ability to use maps due to the many childhood hours spent playing RPGs and sometimes mapping by hand where I was going. As an adult I rarely get lost. One time I couldn't take my off ramp from one freeway to the next because it was late at night and the off ramp was unexpectedly closed for construction. I didn't have gps since this was pre-smartphone days and I didn't have a separate stand alone unit, but I promptly got off the next exit a couple miles down the freeway, which took me to an industrial part of downtown Los Angeles. Knowing how the two freeways ran through the city, I triangulated my way back to the freeway I wanted to take, in the dark, without ever stopping to check a map. Got home perfectly fine.
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Post by Ambrienne on Aug 2, 2023 13:55:56 GMT -5
I feel like using the silent protagonists of early RPGs as an excuse for my highly introverted habits now. Alas, I can't even fool myself with that one. I was an avid book reader first. I can credit my struggles with text adventure lexicons for helping motivate my vocabulary building, though. And playing games I couldn't actually read very well with a kanji dictionary for helping me pick out essential info out of text walls (both in and out of my own language). Can't blame video games for my twisted humor either. That's at least a 3rd generation family trait if not more. Ha, ha.
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Post by Solana on Aug 7, 2023 15:28:28 GMT -5
DarkKnight found a story on 'Not Always Right' of a tutor using 'The Secret of Monkey Island' for teaching English words in Japan.
As for the twisted humor, that runs in my family, too. We have portraits of ancestors in the Netherlands making these twisted mouth expressions because it wasn't the style to smile in pictures back then.
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Post by Solana on Aug 14, 2023 15:18:17 GMT -5
It's a LOT easier to scruff kittens than it is to scruff ferrets. (They needed rabies shots today.) Oh, the sacrifices for science...
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Post by Rune Lai on Aug 14, 2023 18:19:41 GMT -5
I imagine the ferrets are really bendy and keen to wiggle away.
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Post by Solana on Sept 9, 2023 13:46:40 GMT -5
Sheep can kick pretty hard when they've had surgery and are having a tough time. I'm also grateful for my immense collection of bath salts and soaps, as I get pretty... fragrant... after caring for them and pigs with salmonella and giving other pigs rubdowns with oil.
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