*waves from harrogate* well of course, having a nice quiet hotel room, no need to get up this morning and no cat to wake me up means that I've been wide awake since 06.20. Of course it does!
Safe to say it was fantastic! Both Frances and Nigel were on top form and the food was delicious as usual. I think we all had a great time, and learned a lot about the life of a vet treating rabbits, their choices in treatment and drug use, Nigel's views on 'alternative' medicine, and what can be learned from post mortem examination. The hall was packed, I don't think there was a spare seat. Waiting now for the nursing course at the end of October, there were a few places left yesterday, whether they've been taken now I don't know.
Safe to say it was fantastic! Both Frances and Nigel were on top form and the food was delicious as usual. I think we all had a great time, and learned a lot about the life of a vet treating rabbits, their choices in treatment and drug use, Nigel's views on 'alternative' medicine, and what can be learned from post mortem examination. The hall was packed, I don't think there was a spare seat. Waiting now for the nursing course at the end of October, there were a few places left yesterday, whether they've been taken now I don't know.
So, I didn't think I was going to update this again re CPD/owners days etc but I am doing.
The Nurses Day on 27 October was of course really valuable, it was good to see so many owners there. It was very useful for Frances to have enthusiastic owners at that event. It was particularly interesting to hear it from the nurses' perspective. I learnt so much particularly about general anaesthetic which was very useful considering 2 days before Erin was hospitalised due to a very bad reaction the day after a GA.. and was still there in a very poorly state that day. ... then 3 days later Esme underwent her first GA in 9 years :shock: Her first attempt at being spayed at 6 months old was aborted as she stopped breathing - it was very interesting to hear the part of the talk covering that aspect, it reassured me enormously. I had been told 10 months earlier that Esme was a bad anaesthetic risk as she had a heart murmur.
So, today Frances is doing her penultimate talk. She's in the Netherlands. It's not one where she's doing the whole day but various experts doing small sections, so hopefully won't be as tiring. She will be doing a talk on Rudy's case history, of which I feel immensely proud. I don't know if she's covering his many years of stasis episodes (and the cyst she found on PM which *may* have been the cause), the abscess deep in his lung lobe (bronchitis) ... his liver torsion which he survived or the cancer in the stifle and bone of his leg. He made for an interesting case history, bless him.
So, I didn't think I was going to update this again re CPD/owners days etc but I am doing.
The Nurses Day on 27 October was of course really valuable, it was good to see so many owners there. It was very useful for Frances to have enthusiastic owners at that event. It was particularly interesting to hear it from the nurses' perspective. I learnt so much particularly about general anaesthetic which was very useful considering 2 days before Erin was hospitalised due to a very bad reaction the day after a GA.. and was still there in a very poorly state that day. ... then 3 days later Esme underwent her first GA in 9 years :shock: Her first attempt at being spayed at 6 months old was aborted as she stopped breathing - it was very interesting to hear the part of the talk covering that aspect, it reassured me enormously. I had been told 10 months earlier that Esme was a bad anaesthetic risk as she had a heart murmur.
So, today Frances is doing her penultimate talk. She's in the Netherlands. It's not one where she's doing the whole day but various experts doing small sections, so hopefully won't be as tiring. She will be doing a talk on Rudy's case history, of which I feel immensely proud. I don't know if she's covering his many years of stasis episodes (and the cyst she found on PM which *may* have been the cause), the abscess deep in his lung lobe (bronchitis) ... his liver torsion which he survived or the cancer in the stifle and bone of his leg. He made for an interesting case history, bless him.
So, last years' talk in the Netherlands wasn't the 'penultimate' after all!!
https://www.vetfestival.co.uk//speakers/frances-harcourt-brown
https://www.vetfestival.co.uk//speakers/nigel-harcourt-brown
So, last years' talk in the Netherlands wasn't the 'penultimate' after all!!
https://www.vetfestival.co.uk//speakers/frances-harcourt-brown
https://www.vetfestival.co.uk//speakers/nigel-harcourt-brown
So, last years' talk in the Netherlands wasn't the 'penultimate' after all!!
https://www.vetfestival.co.uk//speakers/frances-harcourt-brown
https://www.vetfestival.co.uk//speakers/nigel-harcourt-brown
It would be good but I can't see it happening. The information on calcium content was really interesting, it brings it home when presented in the right way. It was a good era, there's no doubt about it.I would like her to do a owners day about forage and their medicinal properties
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It would be good but I can't see it happening. The information on calcium content was really interesting, it brings it home when presented in the right way. It was a good era, there's no doubt about it.
So, a bit of reading on the Vet Festival website tells me it's run by an organisation called "Fitz All Media Ltd"... A director of which is none other than Martin Noel Fitzpatrick. .. so basically, they have been head hunted in retirement by Professor Noel! (Or that's my interpretation until I hear differently).