And then at the end of the second year, I was deciding, “Well, what do I wanna do?” I said, when I’d see a case come in, you know, after the first year, you know, there was new stuff coming in, but after the second year there’s always new stuff,… Read More
And it was just total immersion there. We had some of the best, I think diagnosticians in the country, and they just took you under the wing, and within about three or four weeks, you were seeing your own cases, and my gosh, it was such an awareness in you,… Read More
Well how did you, let’s just do a quickie, but how, you’re working at John Hopkins in comparative medicine and did you hold a title?… Read More
I mean, what were your first impressions when you got to this place?… Read More
And what was it like?… Read More
Well, it was interesting, and the Angel Memorial, I grew up, my last six years out in farm country in Maricopa where I went to school, had 100 people in the whole entire city, so I was immersed right in the middle of Boston after driving across country, and at… Read More
So you graduated from veterinary school?… Read More
Yep. Read More
That’s, they only take seven people out of, you know, the entire country.” I said, “Oh, that’s interesting.” So I applied, and I got there, and stayed there for about a year, over a year, I did my internship at 15 months, and then stayed on an extra year as… Read More
And then started in, and everybody kept telling, “Well, you’re not gonna get into vet school. Nobody gets into vet school, blah, blah, blah.” And you all heard that. And so I said, “Well”, that’s got a bit of a challenge, so … I went through the second year, which… Read More
Well now let me go back to Angel Memorial. Read More
Well, did you ever get to zoos when you were younger?… Read More
I just didn’t, you know, I had a normal curiosity about, you know, birds and stuff like that, but I didn’t go collecting ’em, or put ’em in jars, or anything like that. Read More
Not that I can remember. I don’t remember a zoo experience, you know, in my younger years, so, no. Well, so it leads me to ask, when did you decide, and why did you decide “I wanna be a veterinarian?” Well, that’s kind of an interesting story is, as I… Read More
What was your childhood like?… Read More
Were you bringing home snakes or … No, not really. I don’t have any other people to compare it to. I just never, you know, I had the occasional cat as a pet, but that was about it. Didn’t have many exposures to animals during my childhood. Read More
Did they interest you or wasn’t on your scope?… Read More
Well, kind of a many, my parents moved all over California, I was brought up with my mother and stepfather, and he had numerous jobs, and during my early years, I never went to the same school for more than a few months until I got in the sixth grade,… Read More
They were farming at the time. We had about 3,000 acres down outside of Maricopa in the area they called the Flats, and it was a mixed farm for mainly cotton, alfalfa for seed. We had some soybeans, we grew castor beans, we grew sugar beets and just, and mixed… Read More
And what were your parents doing?… Read More