Sunday, August 14, 2005

Haze, haze, haze!

Thank God that the hazy days has finally ended today after the heavy pours this evening. The haze was really bad 3 days ago. You can't even breath properly even if you're in the air conditioned room. The respitory rates were definitely increased. Worst was all my clothes has got this smoke smell. Now, the haze is "travelling" up to North of Penisula Malaysia. Penang Island and Langkawi Island are terribly hazy now. Anyway, everything will be back to normal in KL starting from tomorrow. Whatever that happens, life goes on.

Monday, August 08, 2005

My First Surgery Case

A dog was presented to the clinic with a broken tail this morning. According to the owner, the dog bite its own tail until about 3cm of the tail being bite off. It's called self mutilating of tail. Luckily it was not a maggot wound yet and I didnt see any protruded coccygeal bone. However after checking at the wound and condition of the dog, the underlying cause of the self mutilating of the tail is most probably due to the generalised and chronic malassezia(a kind of skin disease).The itchiness cause the dog kept on licking and eventually biting off the tail. Anyway, tail amputation was indicated for this case as the wound would not be able to heal if there's no skin closure at the wound. I have got the chance to do tail amputation on the dog's tail this evening around 4pm. I was pretty nervous initially although it seems easy when I read through the surgical protocol. A bit awkward too when I performed the surgery. My helpful senior vet was there to help me throughout the surgery. I am so fortunate to have her all this while. The tail was amputated about 4cm long and closed up with simple interrupted suture pattern. I am crossing finger now that hopefully the suture wound will heal properly and will not have any post op complication :P The dog is going home tomorrow and to come back for suture removal in 10 days time. That is my first surgery case.

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Graduation day

Convocation has just passed. Everything went smoothly. It was reallly tiring although it was just an ordinary cert giving ceremony. Frankly speaking I was not excited about it at all. But I know most of my classmates were really excited about it. hehe..not sure why I am not excited about it. Almost all my coursemates turned up only left few didnt turn up. Audrey, we missed you! Everyone was kinda busy on graduation day. I didnt even have the chance to take photos with some of my close coursemates. Family and friends were all turned up. It's a joyful day indeed. Anyway, we are finally being called as registered veterinarian in Malaysia and of course practising legally now. To all my coursemates, glad to see you all during the convo and all the best in your future undertakings.


Siew Ching, Jolene, Me and Sophia at the faculty's foyer before the Majlis Ikrar. Posted by Picasa


Me and my others coursemates. They are great friends of mine Posted by Picasa


Class photo but didnt manage to take all of them. Posted by Picasa


Me and Heok Yit. Posted by Picasa


My family- Dad, Aloysius, Me and Jenny Posted by Picasa


Dr Wan and Me Posted by Picasa


Say Chin, Hock Hee, Francis and Me Posted by Picasa


Wan Lin and Me. Posted by Picasa