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malakia024
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Interests: Junior of Animal Sciences at Virginia Tech. Aspiring to go into animal physiotherapy and rehabilitation of equine and canine, but for the time being I am thoroughly enjoying myself in college. Life at Tech involves three things: academics, football, and marching band (not necessarily in that order). Within these three factors I have specified sublevels of fun to fill my day. Academics: Dissecting defenseless chickens alive, electro-ejaculating bulls, and cloning.
Football: Baltimore Ravens and Tech Hokies...I have a shrine to each team in my room.
Marching Band: What else can I talk about but the MV Horns? The finest set of musicians/friends/lovers that a girl could ever ask for. All ya'lls bases belong to us.
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Member Since:
2/23/2004
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| Alright so I am tired of fighting with the Xanga on getting those other
pictues of Riley up. opened up a Webshots account and you can
find the pics there
http://community.webshots.com/album/294309606eJJofl
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| Happy St. Patty's Day everyone! May you
all be stable enough tomorrow to still make it to class.
I took the dog to the veterinary teaching hospital
yesterday for some radiographs to figure out what is the problem with
his leg. He will be able to keep the leg as the neuro functions
are fine. However, the radiographs show pins from a previous
surgery in his R. rear and L. front due to distal fractures. Now
normally that would not be a probelm to remove...but whoever the vet
was that put in these pins did a horrible job. The pins have
positioned his stifle at the wrong angle, grinding these nail-like
fixtures into his bone and nerves. The pins are also sparatically
bent, twisted, and one is even broken in half (with the pointy end
floating around in his knee cap). There are bone fragments
scattered and severe arthritis. So after spending more money than
what I have for this puppy, he is going to have to go under a very very
very serious surgery followed up by intense physical therapy for
years. Lucky me
But with a bit more time and training, he is going to be one of the
best companion dogs I have ever worked with. Now I need to think
of how many different ways I can beg the hospital director to do the
surgery for free. I'll keep ya'll up to date. I'll throw some
pictures up of him when I get a chance.
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| Tough day at the veterinary teaching hospital...a referring veterinarian from WV decided it would be a good idea to send a client over to Virginia Tech for a kidney transplant and not call to notify us. In the medical world, referring a client without calling the party you are sending the client to is a pretty asanine thing to do. So when a hysterical woman walks in with a dying dog screaming she is here for the kidney transplant, you know it is going to be a bad day. Does her local vet think that we have spare kidneys lying around!?! Seriously people....use your heads 
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I
dropped him off at the hospital this morning for his surgery, so he
will be even more shaved than what he is in those pictures. You
can see very well in the top two pictures his prior incision that is
the cause of his lameness. I'll keep ya'll up to date on his
condition. 
