The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
What feels like forever ago when I first started my diary I was counting up each day another day on my journey to becoming a vet. Now however I am counting down – that is either scary that I will Continue reading 400 days to graduation…
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Chart Stables Recently I’ve been noticing a lot of pet owners posting online with a picture of an animal with a wound asking for advice. These have varied from a scratch through to a Continue reading A little about dealing with wounds in animals…
Today’s Diary Entry is Sponsored by Spikes World Well today I got a shock, I went to calculate the number of days since I moved here and put in 2013 by accident. Realising this just brought it home that I Continue reading Is it really 2 years already? (Day 498)
Today’s Diary Entry is Sponsored by Pets Bureau Well following on from yesterday this morning I was also with the Equine service and we had a castration scheduled for a young stallion followed by a visit to look at some Continue reading Equine Castration and a James Herriot morning….
Todays Diary Entry is sponsored by Pet Webinars This morning I started my journey back to Kosice, I was hoping to arrive if possible in time for my physiology lecture however that did not happen. So with an early start Continue reading Coming back to Slovakia (Day 211)
I may be studying abroad however I try to keep abreast of what is happening in the UK and world around me. Politics was something I was never really interested in until my final year of university in the UK Continue reading Lessons from Slovakia in unemployment and workfare… (Day 188)
Today’s Diary Entry sponsored by CarPET Pet Hair Remover Well this morning I went to my hospital appointment, half hoping that she would do the surgery today. I arrived at the hospital at 8am and was straight into radiography (x-ray) Continue reading Visiting the hospital and calculating the mineral content of feed (Day 173)
You really can tell winter is here, there’s been snow on the ground for the past week or so now and the temperature is generally in the minus figures. Its beautiful, yet just shows me how I need to get Continue reading The end of Slovak Language… (Day 93)
Today has been another long day, this morning went to Immunology and this afternoon has been about cows. Now today in immunology we started looking at phagocytosis, in basic terms this is when a cell “eats” another cell. Usually this Continue reading Phagocytosis, visiting the dairy farm, and snow… (Day 85)
Ok so this morning I did quite a bit of revision, and was then invited to go out for a walk around town, being such a nice day I decided to say yes and headed out. Even though I have Continue reading Exploring Kosice a little more… (Day 33)