Category Archives: Veterinary Medicine

Prologue: First published January 11, 2021. coupled with last week’s story, this gives a good illustration of a veterinarian’s variety of work and skills. D. E. Larsen, DVM I pushed my left arm deeper into the birth canal of the young heifer, sweeping my hand left to right, trying to decide what was wrong here. Continue reading ” Over-sized and Pocket-sized, A Spay is a Spay, From the Archives”

Prologue:  It has been a rough week for me. I have been having daily infusions of IVIG for my Myasthenia Gravis. The infusions take three or four hours, and the come in a set of five. Friday is my last one. This story is from the archives. First published December 16, 2019 and it fitsContinue reading “On a Thanksgiving Eve, From the Archives”

D. E. Larsen, DVM I was twenty years old, bouncing between school. It would be wrong to say I was struggling, but looking at my grades, you could draw that conclusion.  In 1963, everyone graduating from high school with an aptitude for math was directed toward engineering. It had not taken me long to realizeContinue reading “Greetings”