It is day 2 of my new job, and I felt the deep breath I took at the beginning of the week was unwarranted!
There are only three vets out of five actually here this week, one of which is me, brand new, and another is the other locum who has only been here 2 weeks! I thought it would be chaos, but we seem to be on top of things quite nicely.
I've done a few consults - my first appointment was a tortoise with a sore eye. Luckly the boss was free to see it, and I am going to grab the toisoise notes I saw on the shelf in a minute and start a crash course in chelonian medicine!
This morning I had a couple of rabbits to desex - one to spay and one to castrate. they thought the female might have been mated 2 weeks ago, and he belly felt a little bit swollen, soI went on and and after looking for her uterus for half and hour, the nurse had a (second) closer look and we found his testicels, which I promply removed instead! the second castrate took about 10 minutes!
I am not consulting till 5 (finished surgeris at 12!), so am catching up on a few things and will get some good reading in this afternoon I think!

I was a little bit worried about my accomodation before I got here, but I arrived on Saturday to find the boss and her husband putting up curtains and setting up a bed in my room (which is the lounge of a one bedroom flat). My housemate is South African locum nurse, who I get along really well with, and we are going to share cooking between us (we only have a small bar fridge between the two of us!) She has cooked me three meals already, so it's been really great. She also only smokes in her room, so it isn't too bad when it comes to that smokey smell I was worried about.

The trip back was a bit stressful when I arrived at Melbourne airport to find I had missed my flight (I thought I was booked on one 2 hours later) so I spent a couple of hours sitting around wondering how I would explain that to my new boss, then got a standby seat on the next flight, which was fine for my connection in dubai as well!

No jetlag yet again, am kinda glad I don't sleep well on planes, and my theory still holds!

It was so good to catch up with everyone I saw in Oz, I'm just sorry it wasn't a bit longer, as I felt a bit strung out by the end! I'm sorry if I didn't get to see you if I missed you, see you next time.

So it's all gone amazingly well (Than you, God!), I'm just praying that the rabbit I 'spayed' starts eating and doesn't get paralytic ileus on me now............