At the beginning of April my Easter holidays started with me spending a week lambing at the farm in Devon which I had got work experience at in February. I was working very long hours; waking early and working without breaks until dinner and then going back again! I will write more about this week in my next post…
Each week I am still spending an evening a week at the vets and in the second week of holidays, as well as relaxing from my very busy week on the farm, I spent a day there. Consultations that I have seen include; a dog that two days previously had a stroke and now had a head tilt and was walking in circles, a Labrador whose ear was swelling with blood and had to be drained and a cat that had got into a fight with another cat (and lost). I also saw a bitch spay being carried out while Becki (the vet nurse) drew pictures of what was happening at the different stages.
Since I am now 17, I have started having driving lessons once a week. At first I was nervous about being on the road withother drivers but now I’m getting more confident as I get more used to what I have to do, what other people do and my car (a second-hand ford fiesta).
Wildlife Aid is getting much busier now with squirrels, fox cubs, hedgehogs, pigeons, parakeets, ducklings as well as much more…
After Easter it was back to college, we’re getting much busier now too as exams are looming. Despite the extra pressure revising for exams put on us all I’m still really enjoying college. However, I didn’t have such a good time on the way to college on Tuesday. My mum was driving me in and when we were almost there I got an uncomfortable feeling in my abdomen which quickly got very painful. My mum started heading towards the doctors because she could see that I was in a lot of pain. I’m not one to make a big drama out of pain so when I said ‘yes’ to her calling an ambulance so got very worried. By the time the paramedic arrived the pain was so intense I was struggling to speak. He did a few tests and the all seemed normal and after about 15 minutes of him being there it began to ease off. My doctor thinks that I may have had a renal colic (which apparently is the most painful sensation humans can feel – and I agree; it was easily the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced) but is not sure what caused it. I had to have a starved blood test the next morning and since then I’ve felt completely normal. I got my results today and everything there was normal which is good but slightly frustrating as we still don’t know why it happened.
