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SEPTEMBER 2011-SEPTEMBER 2012 BARCELONA VETERINARY FACULTY

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On september 6 I arrived at my new school which was Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, faculty of Veterinary Medicine. This was my first view after leaving the train at the campus,  full of fear and hope I started classes.



My spanish was very very poor but it was not a main problem because I quickly realized that the main language spoken during classes is catalan which I obviosly didn't know (even a word).
My first weeks I spent studying languages very very hard, attending to all of the classes, translating everything from catalan into spanish and then into polish. It was really hard and a couple of times I thought I was not going to make it and I wanted to go back Poland. After first month I already spoke spanish and after another 2 I was able to have my exams in catalan, it is so incredible how fast you learn dealing with a language every day! There were so many people helping and supporting me, thank you mis compañeros :)

Any free time between theoretical and practical classes, trips to farms I was discovering Barcelona. It is an amazing city with everything it offers, one of the best places I ever been to!!!


This is a view from Park Guell, one of my favourite places, was designed by the catalan architect Antoni Gaudi and built between 1900-1914.






Arco de triunfo












This geese live freely in the Cathedra of Barcelona


Here one of my first trips- with group of friends going back from a pig farm we visited Montserrat, up in the mountains.

Here with my mum who visited me twice.











Another trip to Costa Brava


Barcelona offers you a big variety of food according to its multicultural caracter. 





































This is my faculty, just imagine every morning grazing sheep in front of it. 














 And behind it, farms belonging to the university.








Small animal clinic


During this academic year I had a lot of hours of practises, including several trips to farms. What we were trying to study was a management of the farms, sanitary protocols but at the same time we were helping with its usual duties. 


















Laboratory practise





Another farm-dairy cattle



Preparing a cow for a abomasum displacement surgery
















We were even let to suture a little bit, this is an effect...







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Summer 2011 clinical externship at Alvarado Veterinary Clinic, Texas PART 4

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I am going to start with an extremely rare in a vet's practise event which is c-section in a pig! How lucky I was to be part of the team that time

Here Sandy is preparing a sow for a surgery, as she has been with dystocia for a quite long time-everything had do be performed fast.


Dr Halvorson with Dr Calvert are starting an incision of the abdominal wall





Here you can see the uter

After taking out every piglet I was taking care of them while the Vets were suturing
The piglets were presenting some nervious symptoms as a result of ketamine 



After surgery the suture was almost invisible, great job!
Here babies of another sow



In Texas a lot of people kept farm animals as their pets so they prefered to spend some more and have their surgery being done in a pain-less cosmetic way.
For instance dehorning or castration...




Here a billy goat receiving premedication

Ready for a surgery


We started with a dehorning



Then we performed a castration





Another unusual pacient to be castrated :)







It became fashionable to own  lamas but unfortunately the climate of an extremely hot and dry west was a dangerous environment for these animals that caused many of them suffer from heat strokes.







Here with doctor Halvorson, we went for a call where a lama was not getting up for 5 days. After giving her a complete physical exam, with nervous system examination there was no chance for recuperation,eventually we decided to euthanize her.

On the same property there were a lot of donkeys minuatures. I was even offered to keep one but how could I take it back home?:)























 Here with a young raccoon that was found... a lot of people try to keep them while they are babies because they are cute and don't realize that these are real wild animals. Once they present signs of their nature they are kicked out and many times disable to survive. It's also good to remember their role they play in transmitting rabbies.








Here with Stephanie, a great vet tech and friend!

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