I didn't get a chance to update on the surgery last week.  Anyway everything went great. Even though "Dash" was sedated, he struggled a bit when I was putting in the catheter before surgery, but I managed to put it in on the first try.  I think he just hates to be restrained. Other than that everything went smoothly. His heart rate and respiratory rate stayed within the normal range the whole time, which made my job a lot easier. Recovery also went smoothly. We needed to be with our animals until they're able to get up and walk around. Some groups stayed for like 2 hours after their surgery! "Dash" was awake and walking around within like a half an hour or so. Here's a picture of him recovery from surgery. For some reason he wanted to lay on his back.

Next week I'm supposed to be doing surgery, but today I just heard that the humane society that have been providing us the animals just backed out! I guess there were complications from the Thursday surgery group and some of the incisions dehisced.  The humane society didn't want to deal with it. But incisions were checked by the actual surgeons themselves so we think the problem was that the animals were put out for adoption too early. So surgeries may be cancelled next week.  Our professor is trying his best to find some animals though. That would really suck if my surgery week was cancelled.

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