It's the last Friday of the year 2022 and I can't help but ruminate on the year, the good and the bad, the ups and the down, it's been tough. I spent the day in the lab trying to locate and identify helminth eggs , I really wish there was an easier and better method. What if there was a database of parasites and their eggs and we get to pass microscopic images of the eggs or parasite into the database and the eggs/parasites get identified? Like, something of FBI database that gets to identify criminals? Like what could go wrong? Similar eggs getting mixed up? Getting the database started? Funding? Or it isn't at all possible? Maybe it isn't possible or why else would we still be doing faecal and floatation procedures, taking precious time away when there could be an alternative. Or maybe it's available somewhere and not in Nigeria. While we were discussing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and how to amplify genes, my ...
What's there to write? I don't really know. I wanted to document my daily activities here, maybe weekly but when you are studying veterinary medicine and have a 8 to 5 classes daily, the time isn't there and majorly, there's nothing to write about, just class, hostel and then class. Have I even told you how I ended up in Veterinary medicine? Oh, no. That's probably a story for another day. My week's highlight was basically Introductory Surgery test that was "toxic". I expected it though, it was a combined test of 4 parts , there was a lot to read and very little time. We mostly do our test in parts for ease supposedly (still hard ngl) , but as Surgery Depeartment would have it, they opted for the combined test and there was nothing we could do. Surgery isn't supposed to be hard , you know, more practical, less theory and it's the introductory part but it is what it is. In all the "rogbodiyan", I managed to watch a Yoruba m...