::Driving slow on Sunday morning::

Trisomy7

So I got to go with Doc Dan again to day. I was really lucky since its just two weeks into the new semester and I had a bunch of stuff to ask him related to surgery class. I think the highlight of the trip for me was when I got to look at Doc's Veterinarium '95. It's a CVM yearbook of the graduate class of 1995.
I got to see what Doc Deo and Doc Andrew looked like back then! Hee hee. Doc Deo looks so thin and boyish! Doc Andrew still looks the same but with a bigger tummy now :D I also found out that Doc Deo and Doc Dan are born 1971 and that Doc Deo was born 1973.
Interesting fact: The 3 mentioned above are very close. Their barkada actually consists of one more person = Doc Meme. In Doc Andrew's write up, it was mentioned that he was forever buddies with Doc Dan and Doc Deo.
Doc Dan was called Dan Dan before.
Doc Deo got someone pregnant and had to marry her back in proper. But he divorced her and last year got married to Lyra (Doc Ariel's blockmate, I think). Whoo...

So went to BF Homes Polo Club, Carmona and NAIC.

New stuff I learned:
1. A good hoof would have no lines. If there are any it means that there's pedal bone rotation.
a. Give hoof flex. It contains biotin and other components to make it stronger or as Doc Dan says "Makunat"
2. Lameness
a. One leg steps faster ...stiff
b. Lift the leg so that its bent like a triangle under it and hold it for a while. When you let go, the lameness will be more obvious.
3. Nasolacrimal duct cannulation/irrigation
a. Use NaCl
b. Insert the tube into the opening (found in the nose) and push it about 3-4 inches inside.
c. The tube is size 5.
d. Indications:
i. Corneal erosion (the case this morning)
ii. Excess amount of mucus in the eye. The horse usually gets a lot of sand in the eye after exercise.
iii. If there's blockage in the duct.
4. Floating
a. Done every 6-8 months
b. Usually the first 3 lower molars are affected
c. Its done to get rid of the sharp points and to round the teeth to ultimately make it smoother.
d. If not done, the horse cant eat and perform right plus it gets abrasion in the oral cavity.
5. Horse shoes
a. Heart Bar shoe (see previous notes)
b. Normal horse shoe (the u shaped one)
c. Bar Shoe (a letter U with the bar closing the open top)
d. Egg Bar Shoe (shaped like an egg). Prevents the foot from contracting.
6. Tiluronic acid is another option for firing. It is very expensive however so its not being used in the country. It encourages osteocyte growth.
7. Firing
a. Polka dot pattern when on the canon bone
b. Polka dots and lines when on the knees and tendon.
c. Can fire as much as to 5x.
d. Need to wait for a month or two before the next firing.
e. Always inject ATS (anti-tetanus) before firing.
f. More common to fire forelimbs than the hind limbs. Plus you can also fire the entire circumference of the leg.
8. Joint fluid collection
a. Inject lidocaine first so the horse wont feel the big needle.
b. Collect the fluid. Should be light yellow in color if normal.
c. Inject gentamicin and triamcinolone.
9. Bitseat
a. Common in race horses, jump horses and dressage horses
b. Normally, the bit is situated in front of the horses' teeth. But when the reigns are pulled, the bit can move upwards or downwards and push against the area between the tooth and the gums.
c. This causes pain.
d. So you can file away a triangular shape between the upper and lower incisors so that the bit can fit snugly in between the crevice.
10. Triadan system. It's the dental chart we learned in Surgery class for dental anatomy. The four quadrants of the mouth when the animal is facing towards you (see pics).
11. Hardkeeper. This is a horse that has difficulty gaining weight.
a. Need to give it a specific feed "Hardkeeper"
b. Give it corn oil or rice bran oil for easy digestion.
i. It either has more omega 6 than 3 or the other way around.
ii. Either of those will create more inflammation precursors resulting to more inflammatory reactions which is bad.
c. Oil is an alternative energy source. About 40 ml will do.
12. Influenza vaccine is given every 4 months.

Doc Dan also said in relation to oil that if you drink mineral oil before drinking alcohol, it'll coat your GIT so you wont absorb the alcohol ultimately leaving you clear headed. Its like xenical!

Oh, and I also got to meet Doc Ana :D

ayie

Dear Lord, let me be Your instrument for good things.

ayie

I keep reassuring myself.

ayie

Found two footnotes from a source for thesis: "1. MANAGER, SUPERVISOR and COUNSELOR will be used interchangeably, and will be referred to in this book by the masculine gender and pronoun HE. 2. EMPLOYEE, SUBORDINATE, COUNSELEE and CLIENT will be used interchangeably, and will be referred to in this book by the feminine gender and pronoun SHE." Aba loko 'to, ah. How discriminating!

ayie

I used to take my time in writing intricate details on my Starbucks Planner.  I would make sure this would happen on this date at that time at that place.  However, this wouldn't really happen exactly the way I would want them to materialize.

So I figured, just for a change, why not just put general details and not engross myself too much on scheduling activities at exact times?  Surprisingly, I am able to make things happen more.  Compared to those times that I would plan and plan and plan, listing activities for semestral break not on specific days made me look at my agenda as a whole--what I was going to do first, what were my priorities, et cetera.  It's good to remember the implementation in my head first, before putting them on paper.

Scheduling is very much similar to writing Programs of Instruction (POI's) for Wing 3 Operations.  In Ateneo ROTC, the timetables are not supposed to enslave the flight leaders in trying to implement the activities for that training day.  Instead, they're supposed to serve as just guides or blueprints as to what are supposed to be implemented.  As my then-senior officer would always tell me, POI's are not always meant to be implemented exactly the way these are written.  Of course, allotting for idle times must also be taken into consideration, during times when the Military Training Instructors (MTI's) from the Philippine Air Force (PAF) would come to the training grounds at a later time.  Officers should be flexible enough to adjust the timetable for the cadets.

In the same manner of creating schedules for school work, family time, gimmick with high school friends, dates with significant other, and the like, I'm not really supposed to enslave myself with the schedule that I have written.  I don't have to chase time; time has to work for me.  Because in the end, it's not time that does the helping and empowering--it is I who makes these things happen.

(I muse that tomorrow will be the start of my last semester, provided that I just don't screw up with my subjects.  Then, I look at my graduation countdown and I just turn giddy because in just a hundred or so days, I'm off to the real world!)

Trisomy7

November 3, 2009 Wednesday = Day 3 with Doc Dan.

The day was spend mostly in the car since we went to Batangas for the first half of the day and visited a lot of horse farms or ranches. In the afternoon, we went off to Calatagan and we had to take the long route since some of the roads were blocked.
I kept up a steady stream of chatter the entire day. Amazing. I had to keep Kuya Edy company while driving off to Calatagan since Doc Dan wanted to sleep in the back seat.
So these were the farms we went to:
• Raymond Puyat (across it was Mr. Herme Esguerra's farm)
• Albert Yam
• Mayor Dimacuja
• Putch Puyat
• Sandy Javier
• Eddy Gonzales
• Butch Mamon
• Hacienda Bigaa owned by the Zobel's.
• Ascendant Ranch owned by Mr. Crisostomo (its in front of Gourmet's!)

I also got to meet Dr. Alexander Kitma who was the resident vet in Hacienda Bigaa. Apparently, Lolo was the first vet there. I also met a stable hand who used to work in the Polo Club and he was asking me who my horse was. I didn't remember the name but I knew that my horse was white with black flecks.
Doc Dan also treated me for lunch in BJ's or BG's Lomi house. It tasted really good!

The new things I learned:
1. Feeds are classified as;
a. Matapang- all oats for high energy
i. High energy feeds will increase glycogen stores which becomes lactic acid (Cori Cycle)
ii. Ultimately causing muscle cramps and pain for the horse
b. Matabang/Matamis- less oats but more molasses for less energy
i. Give this when you don't want the horse to tie up
2. A horse in Mayor Dimacuja's farm had an abscess cause by a broken rib. So there were two holes visible. Doc Dan used a concoction of NaCl + DMSO + betadine and tubed it through the holes. He cleaned it out with peroxide first though.
a. He put SWAT on it to prevent myasis.
3. Brands or marks on the horse
50 50th foal
" "
brand
6 2006

4. Horse conformation
a. Longer body length = bigger lung capacity
b. Bigger chest width and size = bigger lung capacity
5. Blistering is a less severe form of firing and is always done before attempting firing. It is done by the use of chemicals (cantharidins) or irritants.
6. You have to wait for 3 days before giving lutalyse so you'll be sure that the corpus haemorrhagicum (secretes FSH or foliiculostatin ) has turned into a corpus luteum (which secretes progesterone to maintain pregnancy).
a. Wait another 3 days before you can mate the horse after the lutalyse
i. The horse will go into heat again since there's no more progesterone
b. Ant Pituitary Gland > FSH > Ovary > mature follicles > estrogen > heat > CH > CL
7. Caslick's Procedure
a. Can use horizontal mattress (usually) or
b. Ford Interlocking (especially if in frisky horses)
8. Dexamethasone is a GCC that can also be used for dermatologic problems.
a. It's also very good for shock treatment since it prevents the adverse effects of precursors (sometimes the inflammatory mediators cause more harm than good).
b. Triamcinolone is also an anti-inflammatory agent but works better on joints.
9. Heart Bar Shoe is usually used in flat footed horses to protect the pedal bone. The apex of the heart bar should be aligned with the tip of the frog. This feature pushes the pedal bone upward.
10. Ultrasound of tendons.
a. Usually done to check if there are lesions
b. A healthy tendon would appear solid white

11. Hoof needs to be cut off.
a. When it gets injured a the bottom (which is hard) it'll manifest as a crack or abscess at the top of the hoof (coronary band).
b. There'll be pus and it'll form a sinus tract beneath the hoof.
c. This needs to be cleaned out
12. Doc Dan placed the plastic of an in dwelling catheter into the hoof crack just before he took the X-ray. Why?

ayie

Third day was great!  I finally loosened up because I've been very shy to them.  I had the chance to interview wonderful people.  This doesn't feel like work at all.  It's cognitively demanding, but it's like play.

ayie

Second day was quite a bummer, but only because I was able to finish lots of stuff ahead of time.  People were really nice, too.  I clearly saw how school concepts were integrated in the organizational setting.