Living the Dream

I love animals especially a cat since I was a kid. My parents are animal lovers too, so all of their children including me really love an animal! A furry-four legs already been as our family members since I was at the elementary school. Betsy, Embreng, Engkeng, Ebel, Cilit, Ncung, Ideung, Macan, etc etc..and all of them treated well by our family and got veterinary attention too. So, my life was not strange to the existence of the vet since I was a little girl.

Ever one night, my cat was found in front of the door near the garden. She laid unconscious on the floor. Her coat was caked with blood around her belly. Her gums were pale, her breathing shallow and rapid. My mom soon called the veterinarian to visit our house and take care for her. Not long after that, the vet came to my house and after examining her, he decided to do the minor surgery because there's a long-deep wound in her belly. I cried and entered my room, how come there's a wound like that in her belly?? I was afraid if there's something terrible happens to her. The vet need to close the wound by suturing it. The vet prepared his minor surgical tools and the surgery was done in the living room. In the mean time, I was so scared to see the surgical operation.

"Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter.. He's just got to know." - Will Roger

My parents always bring our cats to the vet clinic to get routine examination and every our cats got sick. My thought was, "how do vets diagnose the disease? How do they know that animals are really have a serious illness? Their patients can not speak to tell where's hurt." So, they must have an extraordinary mind and instinct, very good listening, speaking, critical thinking and problem solving skills. They are able to draw conclusions by piecing together strands of information or examination results that may not seem related to one another. Challenging!

yes, I love the challenge! CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!! :D

I love animals and I want to pursue a career in medicine, then I considered to become a veterinarian. Veterinarian care for sick and injured animals, and like other doctors, perform surgeries and prescribe medications.

Vets work is widely varied and include such activities as clinical practice, biomedical research, education, diagnostic laboratories, consultations, or safeguarding our nation's food supply. They work to control the spread of disease. They conduct research that helps both animals and humans. Veterinarians are the forefront of protecting the public's health and welfare.

Some graduates specialise in small animals (dogs, cats, and/or exotic pets), large animals (horses and/or ruminants), or work in a mixed animal practice with small and large animals. Others may focus on wildlife, laboratory, poultry or fish farming. Whatever the specialty, veterinarians are dedicated to maintaining and promoting animal health.

vet practice is amazing!

Since I loved and very enjoyed to have a part time or work at clinic or veterinary hospital, I want to be a veterinarian specialise in small animals practice and after being a vet I want to have additional training to specialize and get certified in internal medicine and surgery.

I ever had an experiment at poultry for about 3 months, took a great care of day-old-chicks until they ready to cut at the slaughter house. Given daily a combination of L-carnitine and multivitamin that can changed body fat into muscle or carcasses. After that, analized the histopathology of their effects to the liver and kidney. The experiment was done successfully. I was totally worked at it, but you know, I didn't feel satisfied. I just done that. That's all.

And the same way happens again when I worked at laboratory. My lecturer asked me to help her new project at pharmacology and microbiology laboratories and this research will be my thesis as a reward. I conducted antimicrobial agents to the Gram negative bacteria. I was so glad to have kind of research like this and with a good work and spirit I finished this research on time and got best results. But, yeah.. I didn't feel my soul there when I worked at laboratory.

Unlike all of those, I always been in love and enjoy at clinic or veterinary hospital. I can meet and play with dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, and the other exotic pets. I want to be a practitioner. Wear a trusty-white coat with a stethoscope, perform the physical examination --most start at the head and work towards the tail, take time to evaluate every system in between, wear scrubs and perform surgeries, write prescribes, give medications, heal the pain of the injured animals, promote animals' health, interact with the owner of the animals --it's like sharing with the person with the same interests. That's not really matter if I work overtime til exhausted or til drop because I love it. I do it with all of my heart. I love my hands doing that! :D

Pekingese at work. I love my job! :D

And you know, only you, yourself, can understand and feel satisfied when you do something you really love. You feel that your soul there..

"To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work" - Mary Lauretta

"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

And what vets told me the most if I really want to be a successful practitioner is that I have to improve my skill, skill, and skill. "Because you're nothing if you only have a brain but your heart and hands can't work properly together", and I must provide exemplary medicine to patients and outstanding service to clients, need outstanding communication skills, enthusiastic team with a good sense of humor, improve both medical quality and business performance, and the other important thing is compassionate commitment to pet care. 

"Follow your passion, and success will follow you." - Terri Guillemets 

 "If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you." - T. Alan Armstrong

absolutely right!

Living the dream

One thing that makes me smile, looking over at my stethoscope and realize that yes... I have indeed made it into vet school and yes, I am living the dream! :) :) :)