June 29, 2010

Man has it been hot! The thermometer in the pickup truck says 110*F! I went up the canyon yesterday to see a horse that was down and when the temp dropped to 90*F it felt cool like I may need to jacket. Today I was able to run a nasogastric tube in a horse with colic due to a gut full of sand. It is a really big problem here as well as enteroliths that form due to the sand out here. I also performed a peroneal/tibial nerve block on a horse that is really lame in the hind limb. Other than that it hasn’t been too exciting. I have been doing the 1AM treatments on the poor rope horse that fell out of a horse trailer. Tomorrow, Dr Garth called and told me if we have time we will do some joint blocks so I need to study up the land marks and techniques. He has also asked me to breed a mare with frozen semen for him this weekend if she needs it. I will need to scan her a bunch to track her cycle progress. I actually haven’t done a lot of that though I have seen it done a lot. Dr Kevin also needs me to track his mares this week/weekend because he has had them on Regumate and is wanting to breed them which I potentially may need to do as well.

June 27, 2010 Las Vegas NV

I arrived in town tonight and will be staying in the apartment in the clinic till I find a place of my own. The drive was easy and the little honda had no problems. The land scape between here and home has a few really beautiful areas from I-15 but for the most part I was thinking you could cover it all up with big solar panels and it would improve the scenery. You could also harvest enough energy to power the entire globe with the strength of the sun down here. I arrived in the valley while the sun was still shining but I remember what it is like riding in at night and seeing the horizon to the west light up like the sunrise from the city lights. It is almost another wonder of the world how much this city can illuminate the sky with neon lights.

I thought it would be good over the next year to keep daily records or even take a daily picture that captures what ever interesting things might be going on. Especially since I have no idea exactly where I will be and what I will be doing on a daily basis.

• A sorrel quarter horse is in the hospital that fell out of a new horse trailer on the highway at 75 miles an hour on the way to the little britches finals. Apparently it was a brand new trailer and the doors were faulty somehow. This kneed are skinned down to the joint and this withers are horrible gouged. He is able to stand and seems of pretty good attitude attitude tonight.