How has it already been a month since I started working as a Vet. Looking back on the first month there's been some highs and lows. Today I wanted to reflect on Euthanasia's and Communication with your team.  Euthanasia's: They aren't easy, most of the ones that I have done have been ones where the owner has made the decision themselves, or with one of the other vets at the practice the owner has come to the decision to put their pet to sleep. There have been 2 cases where I have discussed it with the owner and the owner has come to the decision to put the pet to sleep. These were d ..read more

 Wow wat a crazy few weeks its been, the first two weeks of the rest of my working life, and a lot has happened so lets catch up. For those new grad vets out there who are reading this just know that you are doing amazing, you are worthy of being where you are and you are not an imposter, you belong, keep going you got this!  How have my work supported me? I feel like the luckiest vet in the world right now, I start my job at a practice I did about 8 weeks of EMS at throughout my time at university. I knew I got on with the team which for me was the most important thing. I trusted t ..read more

 Hi everyone,  So I know I've been gone for a while, turns out Vet school and a global pandemic are kinda manic!  Life updates I'm sure no one asked for, I am now Dr Sam Walker BVSc MRCVS, who would have thought that little 16 year old Sam who started this blog with the hopes of it helping her get into uni would be here 8 years later. I start my new job as a small animal vet in one and a half weeks, so my new intention for this page is to reflect and highlight the journey of a new graduate vet. Hopefully this will help other new grad vets out there and any other students who are ..read more

  Hello hello, sorry I dropped off the face of the earth. Life is kinda up in the air right now, a quick recap for whats happened since we last spoke, I managed to go to Croatia last summer with my best friend and I felt so lucky to be able to get away and enjoy some sun and relax without thinking about anything to do with normal life and university. In July time I got kinda ill with something which really wiped me out and I really struggled because I held a lot of my identity linked to how much I worked out and when I got ill, I couldn’t work out and I found that really hard to not push ..read more

 Hello lovely people I hope that you are having a wonderful summer despite this whole COVID thing… and actually thinking about it maybe its not summer where you are but I hope you’re having a great whatever season. Today I wanted to talk to you about something that I have been going through recently that I’ve spoken about on my Instagram and I truly believe should be spoken about more online and in social media.   My journey with therapy, coming from a university that has had many issues with student mental health in the past, I want to tell you about my experience and things that I ..read more

How do dogs affect us socially, physically and psychologically? Disclaimer before you read this, I wrote this in 2016 back when I was a school, I still believe in the idea of this research, however I am sure that now there will be many more research on this topic so if you would like to read further into this please do further your reading, I recommend vet times, the vet record, and any research papers you can get your hand on if you are lucky enough to have Medline or Web of Science. I have been looking into how our dogs can affect and help us in our day to day lives. They affect us in ..read more

Hello lovely people, I hope that you are all well in light of the current climate. No matter where you are in the world I am sure you have all been affect in some way by COVID-19. I want to wish you all the best from the UK, we are currently on lockdown all restaurants, pubs, cafes, cinemas, gyms, schools and leisure centres have been shut down, it is a crazy world we are living in the government have just released today that people really need to stop bulk buying as we have enough food and enough food in the supply chain. It is so horrid to see that some of the more vulnerable are going witho ..read more

Hello lovely people, I know I've been really bad on posting here since starting university, I've been thinking about this recently and I think I've come up with a reason as to why I just haven't been finding the time to write on here. At university my days are very uniform, I wake up often perpetually tired, I go to the gym and I then head straight into uni to start lectures or practical's. This year though we have the same contact hours as last year the content itself is rather more difficult as I personally find some of it quite dry and very tricky to learn. After lectures I go to the libra ..read more

Hi lovely people, I hope that you are all well and are starting to feel festive on the lead up to Christmas. I know that since starting university this year my show on the blog has been abysmal, yes this has not been my priority this term. I have been concentrating on me and giving myself down time when my body needs it, I've been staying on top of work and just getting through the term because let me tell you the amount of content manages to blow my mind daily. Over the Christmas holiday I will be trying to do 2 posts on here. I can't say what they will be on, lets just say I'm experiencing ..read more

Hello beautiful people, I hope you are all doing well. I know its been a long time since I put anything up on this page, turns out second year at vet school is quite tricky and overwhelming so I've been taking each day as it comes and trying not to get too stressed, at the end of the day my mental health will always come first. I hope you are having a lovely week and I just thought I'd pop on here to talk about some things we've learnt in lectures recently which I found super interesting as I did do a post on this topic a while ago called designer drugs I believe. So here goes I'm going to exp ..read more