{"id":6318,"date":"2024-06-10T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2024-06-12T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T23:11:38","slug":"week-4-advancing-our-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/week-4-advancing-our-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4: Advancing our skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/span>What a week! We\u2019ve examined many turtle friends, and the summer is really taking off. This past week Marg and I were back together on my favorite field site. It was such a delight seeing the various ponds and all the prairie plants blooming and growing. Outside of turtles, I also loved stumbling upon frogs, toads, tadpoles, garter snakes, deer, ladybugs, dragonflies, and crayfish friends.<\/span> I mean, look how cute this White river crayfish is!<\/span><\/p>\n

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As part of the health assessments we conduct on turtles, we collect blood samples for hematology analysis. Up until this week, the skill of drawing blood was a breeze for me, but only if it was from the subcarapacial sinus. I could never get a good tail vein blood draw regardless of how many times I tried.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

BUT I had a breakthrough! On Wednesday, I performed a perfectly smooth blood draw from the tail vein of a Snapper turtle on my first attempt. It was glorious! I felt very accomplished.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This reminded me that practice makes permanence. While I may be good at some things, some of my other veterinary clinical and lab skills need work. At first, I did not think that I would improve much, but Marg always reminded me that I would get better throughout the summer. And look at me now! It\u2019s amazing how much you can learn in just 1 month.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On a side note, I’m also slowly losing my fear of snapper turtles. They’re quite intimidating if you ask me. Here’s a tiny guy we caught swimming in the pond. He wasn’t too excited about getting his free health exam!<\/p>\n

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Catch us next week!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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By: Javelis Mar\u00edn Castro (she\/ella)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0What a week! We\u2019ve examined many turtle friends, and the summer is really taking off. This past week Marg and I were back together on my favorite field site. It was such a delight seeing the various ponds and all the prairie plants blooming and growing. Outside of turtles, I also loved stumbling upon frogs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6324,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}