No, I haven't gone mad and bought a horse. Just wanting to share two of my favourite things:
Friday, 17 February 2012
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Guardians of the Horse - Rossdales Veterinary Surgeons
Phew! Back from a brilliant week snowboarding in Zell am See in Austria, in the most fantastic snow ever! The week before that I was lucky enough to spend at Rossdale's Equine Hospital and Diagnostic Centre in Newmarket, shadowing some of the partners, associates, interns, and nurses. I feel privileged to have been able to spend a week shadowing these superstars of the equine vet world. I met many inspirational people, dozens of quality equines, and witnessed the highest standards of veterinary hospital care. The thoughtfully designed purpose-built facilities with state-of-the-art equipment matched the impressively slick teamwork in evidence there. It's easy to see why everyone in the horse world knows of Rossdales.
They plunged me right in there into theatre on day one to see colic surgery up close, where I was patiently told that no, that thing wasn't a stomach, it was a caecum - by the surgeon Timothy R.C. Greet BVMS, MVM, CertEO, DESTS, DipECVS, FRCVS, who I later realised wrote large chunks of several text books I have. Oh dear! I was still allowed back for more throughout the week so I guess that can't have been the stupidest question I could have asked. :)
What lovely people - as well as putting up with me peering over their shoulders for 5 days they packed me off home with a parting gift of the book 'Guardians of the Horse', edited and contributed to by several of the people I met during the week.
I hope I can go back there some day with some training behind me that will mean I can be more useful to them, to try & repay the favour they've done me!
In the meantime I have a long list of topics to write about, so watch out for some of those coming soon. I'm going to make an effort to keep posts shorter and more to the point than previous blatherings!
I stayed at a lovely B&B in Newmarket a stone's throw from Tattersalls, called Byerley House - recommended!
They plunged me right in there into theatre on day one to see colic surgery up close, where I was patiently told that no, that thing wasn't a stomach, it was a caecum - by the surgeon Timothy R.C. Greet BVMS, MVM, CertEO, DESTS, DipECVS, FRCVS, who I later realised wrote large chunks of several text books I have. Oh dear! I was still allowed back for more throughout the week so I guess that can't have been the stupidest question I could have asked. :)
What lovely people - as well as putting up with me peering over their shoulders for 5 days they packed me off home with a parting gift of the book 'Guardians of the Horse', edited and contributed to by several of the people I met during the week. I hope I can go back there some day with some training behind me that will mean I can be more useful to them, to try & repay the favour they've done me!
In the meantime I have a long list of topics to write about, so watch out for some of those coming soon. I'm going to make an effort to keep posts shorter and more to the point than previous blatherings!
I stayed at a lovely B&B in Newmarket a stone's throw from Tattersalls, called Byerley House - recommended!
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