Dr. Engholdt

Dr. Engholdt

Inner Strength Will Get You Thru Anything

"If there's something you know you can do....but your mind keeps throwing up road blocks...just drive right through them!"

My Life As An ER Intern...

This is the story of my life as an Emergency & Critical Care Intern at the Animal Emergency Center. I wanted to start this page as a way for my family and friends to keep in touch with me. I have discovered that for the next year of my life, I will be a slave to this internship...you won't see me and possibly won't hear from me. I apologize already...and that is why I want to give something back to each and every one of you for standing by my side through what may be the toughest year of my life. I don't want to lose any of you...I want you to know what I am going through...I want you to experience it with me...so I have decided to place it all here within these pages. Please let me know what you are all up to...this will help to keep me sane...and it will give me a reason to smile on those days when I find myself locked inside the clinic bathroom cyring!! (yes it does happen...in fact the clinic bathroom is fast becoming my place of calm in the middle of what I like to refer to as Hurricane AEC)

I think about you all and I wonder what you are up to...I wish I could talk to each of you every day...especially on those days when I just need to hear a friendly voice. I want you all to know that without your support I will not make it through this year...so stick with me through the rough times because I think I see some clear skies ahead.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Journal Club....done

Finally...my last shift for 5 days unless I get called in on my on-call day Saturday. Journal club came and went today...actually went ok, think I got nervous for no reason...Elke seemed pleased with how I did so that is good...here was the title of my article "Cardiac Filling Pressure are not Appropriate to Predict Hemodynamic Response to Volume Challege"...yeah, exactly what I thought....????what???? Tonight was a slower night...did not admit any inpatients - saw only patients that I sent home. Had a laceration repair...the owner had been cutting mats out of the fur of her cat and then she accidently cut the cat's skin...ouch...so we fixed 'er up...it gets a little more complicated though...she bit one of our technicians...not current on rabies...so I had to contact police dept and they sent over two officers to file a report..cat now has to be quarantined at home for 10 days. Say another dog had beenbit by the neighbor dog...deep puncture wounds all over body...just cleaned them because she wanted to have them repaired at rDVM tomorrow. Saw a ear infection at 12:45am...why are you up at that time paying attention to your dog's ears? So they paid a large amount of money just for that...but whatever. Saw a little kitten that was flat out...smelled like she was rotting from the inside out...huge swelling in caudal abdomen that I think was a hernia but not sure...she was euthanized and owner did not want to do a necropsy so not really sure what that was...tried to aspirate it and just got air. Well, I am tired and so going to head to bed...it is late or early depending on how you look at it.

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The Story of the Five Balls

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you are keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered...either way, it will never be the same and may be lost forever. Be careful when life starts to get rough...juggle carefully. And, once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls...you will have the beginnings of balance in your life.