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.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Happy Cinco de Mayo!!

Well, ok here I am back again mom!! I know I have been away, like I've said previously I have found this profession suddenly...challenging for me...but alas I think that it may be just this internship and once that is over (in 1 month and 3 days!!!) I will be ok again...I hope because not sure what else I would be very good at. Hmmm, so what have I been up to at work?? Fun stuff...went in on a splenectomy today with our surgeon - sad though because it was cancer and had spread throughout the whole abdomen...so we actually euthanized on the table. Saw a Rottweiler the other day that had gotten hit in the head with a baseball and had bit through its tongue - was bleeding all over the place and had to sedate it quick and suture up the tongue - pretty cool thing!!! What else have I seen...placed a cast on a cat with a broken leg, repaired some bite wounds, saved some, lost some...can't think of anything cool now but I will try and write more later and try better to keep up with the blog. Exciting thing though is it looks like we will be warm weather bound soon...can't wait...I am tired, have been working all day so am going to head to bed.
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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.