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gypsy_vets Two veterinarians - a surgical oncologist and an ER vet - become full-time RVers doing short-term work while exploring the country!

Happy 1st birthday Bowen!!! Been quite a ride, you’re awesome. Lookin forward to year 2! 🎉🎂
06/12/2022

Happy 1st birthday Bowen!!! Been quite a ride, you’re awesome. Lookin forward to year 2! 🎉🎂

I'm off clinics this summer studying for the ACVR Preliminary Board Exam, the first of two exams required to become boar...
21/07/2022

I'm off clinics this summer studying for the ACVR Preliminary Board Exam, the first of two exams required to become board certified. The prelim exam covers physics of radiology, anatomy & physiology.

X-rays were discovered by accident in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen, a German physicist/engineer. He produced the first medical x-ray image of his wife's hand in 1896, & within just a few years, x-rays were used in medical applications.

Thomas Edison developed the fluoroscope in 1898, but abandoned his x-ray research after his assistant and long-time friend, Clarence Dally, experienced a severe x-ray burn that led to amputation of both arms & subsequent death in 1904, counted as the first x-ray fatality in the US.

X-rays production is complicated. In a nutshell:
- Electric current heats a tungsten filament in the cathode; electrons are "boiled off" the filament & form an electron "cloud"
- When a voltage differential is applied across the x-ray tube, these electrons are hurled towards the anode at a high velocity
- Projectile electrons collide with a tungsten target in the anode & interact with tungsten atoms in various ways
- "Characteristic" x-rays: produced when a projectile electron collides with an inner shell electron of the tungsten atom & deposits its energy. Inner shell electron is ejected, leaving a vacancy. An outer shell electron fills the vacancy, & the energy deposited by the projectile electron is released as a "characteristic" x-ray
- Bremsstrahlung ("braking") x-rays: produced when a projectile electron passes close to a tungsten target nucleus but does not hit or eject a tungsten electron. The projectile electron slows down ("brakes") as it bends around the nucleus. As it slows down, the electron releases energy as a Bremsstrahlung x-ray

Crazy that people can figure this smaller-than-microscopic stuff out through experimentation & deduction. Or maybe it's just Mrs. Frizzle reporting back from her shrunken Magic School Bus. "Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!" Hopefully not too many mistakes on the exam...

Happy anny! 8 years later, damn time flies.
11/07/2022

Happy anny! 8 years later, damn time flies.

5 months old!
07/05/2022

5 months old!

Welcome to the world, Bowen Dan Ciepluch! Joined the party 12/6/21, weighing in at 8 # 9oz and measuring ~20”. Brittany ...
18/12/2021

Welcome to the world, Bowen Dan Ciepluch! Joined the party 12/6/21, weighing in at 8 # 9oz and measuring ~20”. Brittany was amazing in labor and delivery, Britt and Bowen are both doing well almost 2 weeks in. Bowen had jaundice in the first couple days, but we were able to keep him out of the hospital with the use of a “bili blanket” that was dropped off at our house by a nurse from (last picture on this post, looks like we’re growing a futuristic robot baby). UV light helps to break down bilirubin and resolve the jaundice, which it did nicely! He’s now past his birth weight and doing great! We had a wonderful experience with the clinic where we delivered and are in awe and grateful for our healthcare system and people we worked with. Amazing time to be alive.

Turns out raising a human is difficult, who knew?! Sleep is a fond memory of days past, and there’s never a dull moment, but damn it’s been fun and so fulfilling watching the little dude get used to our home and explore funny little facial expressions and funny little noises (and some big, alarming noises when he’s not content). Our lives have completely changed and we could not be more thrilled. Here’s to the next adventure!! 🍻🎉👶

4 more weeks! Britt's official due date is 12/14/21, when we'll introduce a 3rd human into the family! She's officially ...
16/11/2021

4 more weeks! Britt's official due date is 12/14/21, when we'll introduce a 3rd human into the family! She's officially "at term" (37 weeks) one week from today, so could be even sooner! We are crazy excited, with a few other concurrent emotions swirling around, and currently struggling to narrow down the list of potential names. I put together the crib last night, we've filled the dresser with tons of baby clothes (hilariously small socks for newborns, they're like thumb warmers for me), and we are feeling pretty damn READY! Britt's been a champ throughout the pregnancy and I know she will be a naturally incredible mother, can't wait to see it in action! Any tips?? We're excited and terrified....

What’s your diagnosis? 🎃 Patient presented after consuming too many pumpkin spice lattes. Happy fall!
02/11/2021

What’s your diagnosis? 🎃

Patient presented after consuming too many pumpkin spice lattes.

Happy fall!

Fall family foto on our backyard trail in Jefferson National Forest, beautiful time of year! Britt’s gettin ready to pop...
02/11/2021

Fall family foto on our backyard trail in Jefferson National Forest, beautiful time of year! Britt’s gettin ready to pop, soon this fam will be expanded by 1!

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