Today was a fairly unremarkable first day of the rotation cloaked
in all the typical awkward first day moments. Not knowing what is going on has
never been a favorite past time of mine, but I digress. Knowing that many of
you would rather be spared the details of anything I do in the necropsy lab, I’ll
suffice it to say that my first case was a rather large and furry alpaca appropriately
named Napoleon Dynamite. And top on the differential list for causes of death
for Napoleon was “alpaca fever”, something that I had never heard of. Nor my
classmates. Nor the resident. Nor the faculty member. So being a diligent
student I spent my evening researching the elusive disease. I won’t bore you
with details; it isn’t very exciting anyway.
But overall the day was a good one. We got out at a decent
time and I was actually able to eat dinner at dinnertime, something that didn’t
happen at all the last rotation. The sour note to my meal, or should I say the
bland note, was realizing that my roommate had mistakenly bought “no sugar
added” applesauce…an error that I had made last year. Of course I didn’t
realize the problem until after I had already dumped a large serving onto my
plate and taken a big bite. If you’ve ever had “no sugar added” applesauce you
know what I mean. It doesn’t even resemble the normal stuff. The last time we
had this problem, we tried to compensate by adding copious amounts of sugar to
our servings. It doesn’t help much. If you’ve never had “no sugar added”
applesauce, trust me, you don’t want to. There are few food items in this world
that I classify as nasty and that is one of them. Just don’t do it.
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