Feel the Calm!

 Finally our hours are getting shorter, the clinic less busy, and there has been time to reflect, and have a little fun with each other after hours! For the first time since I've been here I was standing in squirrel room thinking,

"What should I do now?"

I mean of course there is a tonne of cleaning left to do! But normally there is so much that absolutely has to be done, that there is no time to think "What should I do, or what can I do?!" 

(I am kind of liking this change!)

Anyhow, finishing at about nine in the evening has allowed us interns to break out the crap food, and watch some movies! They have introduced me to the Harry Potter series and I got a little weirded out when not long after we received this mysterious creature at our doorstep.

I half expected him to say, "Your a wizard Jacinta!" 

Because we have less patients coming in, I have begun to notice personality in a lot of the patients that we have. My favourite being the porcupine! 

She was found on the side of the road by a police officer, and was brought in. When I first saw her she was barely moving and was pretty scratched up. However, now she is climbing on everything  and wobbling around quite happily! 

 We still have our flying squirrel from the summer. Flying squirrels stay with their parents for about a year, so she will be spending the winter with us! Although she is easily frightened, I sometimes catch her peering out at me curiously from her hat! 

We may have less hours, but we still have night feeds. Someone brought in a litter of nine rats! They are so adorable, and they are actually doing really well! My family is kind of alarmed that we would bother saving rats, but once you have one of these little critters sucking on a syringe from your hands you instantly fall in love!

Days off are much nicer now, because it isn't as stifling hot! I can do more with the horses, now that I don't have to worry about them over heating! 

The horses and I chilling together!(photo cred: Alex)

 

  However, it is still warm enough to bike to town! I used to bike to town on my own before Alex came, but now (if we have the day off together) she comes with me, which is great! There is a lovely little coffee shop in Napanee that we like to stop at. The man there knows us well enough now that when we order something he knows I like whip cream on it, and Alex doesn't! I never imagined I would be a coffee shop regular!

 Us interns have been bonding more as a group. I am gluten free, so the other interns sometimes buy me gluten free sweets, which I find really touching! The other day Rose suprised me with a batch of gluten free cookies she had bought me! I was so happy and gave her a hug, forgetting all about the heat packs I had warming up in the microwave.....

They almost exploded!

But the cookies were great!

Anyways, I am home for the thanksgiving weekend! I was actually really upset to leave Sandy Pines, even for the weekend. It has kind of become home for me! The other interns and I are kind of like sisters now. We may have our differences at times, but we have decided to "agree to disagree." If only everyone in the world would do that. 

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!