Wednesday is Surgery Day!

So at the vets office, Wednesday’s are surgery days; basically, one of the coolest days to shadow on.  On Wednesday’s, there are no appointments scheduled at the Barberton office and only Dr. Riggs is there doing surgery with some of the vet techs.

The first operation was on a bird that had been boarding at the vets office for a couple of days. The bird had a mass on his wing that had the possibility of being cancerous and was affecting his mobility thus needing removed. For the surgery, the bird had to be put under anesthesia, which is actually pretty cool to watch and then Dr. Riggs cut off the part of the wing that had the mass on it and then, stitched and bandaged the wing up. Next the bird had to be woken up and the tracheal tube had to be pulled. They also had to send the mass, which seemed to be a cyst, in for testing to see if it was cancer.

Then they had to prep for the second and last surgery of the day (they usually have more surgeries but Wednesday was a slow day), neutering a bunny.  Putting an animal to sleep is the same under anesthesia just with different kinds of tubes but for a bunny, to put the tracheal tube in for anesthesia, you have to use an endoscope. This bunny kept fighting the anesthesia and waking up while they were putting the tube in and coughing which was adorable. Then Dr. Riggs neutered the bunny and I won’t get into the gory details but it was very interesting to watch.

I am so excited that my last day at the vets office is a Wednesday because I get a second day of surgeries to watch!