00:00So this turtle, we'll call her Lindsay, came to us from Galveston Bay and she had washed in on the
00:21rocks near some fishing site and when she came in she was weak and depressed, she was covered
00:29with algae, she was already missing her eye and that looked like an old injury, it was not
00:34something that we even treated, it was, we cleaned it up and saw there was nothing more
00:39to do there.
00:40So once a month we weigh and measure the turtle, monitor its skin condition, its shell.
00:46There are some diseases of turtles that show up with bumps and swellings and so we want
00:52to make sure that the turtle's healthy.
00:54We also want to make sure that it's continuing to grow because if it's not growing there may
00:57be a problem.
00:58I'm kind of proud that today the turtle kind of graduated to a new scale and our old scale
01:04only goes up to 5 kilos and this time she hit over 7.3 so we're happy.
01:11Once they've recovered we don't want to put them out in the cold ocean water so we wait
01:14for the springtime when the ocean's warm and they have a better chance of survival.
01:21I became a veterinarian because I love animals and I love to see animals in the wild and I
01:25know that I feel a closer association with them the closer I am to the living animal.
01:31And when I have the opportunity to treat an animal from the wild and give it an opportunity
01:38to give it a second chance it's like one of the greatest experiences of my life.
01:42There are some turtles that actually I get goosebumps now thinking about the release and the fact
01:48that I have had a chance to impact this animal's life and it could be out there for another
01:53hundred years.
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