Becoming Vet Dr Romela

Becoming Vet - Dr. Romela

How did you become a vet? Did you always want to be a vet?

Subconsciously, I think I did but I was in a different world not knowing my calling

There was actually a list of childhood ambitions from being an astronaut to a piano music teacher to a doctor... I never even knew there were vets until I was 15 years old 🤦

My father and I shared this craze of saving fry (baby fish) from just dead pregnant fish in our fish tank, to rare different types of fish; Guppies, Mollies, Angel fish, Fighters etc. I used to admire music and play doctor with imaginary pets

Surprisingly, I never was a fan of dogs until I was 15 years old. It's not that I hated dogs but I was scared of them and resisted myself from even feeling a dog. My mother and my sister were dog lovers. Despite my resistance there came in Spot Mc Delgado (after our surname "Salgado") rescued from a hospital car park

His character surprised me. It was like a mini-human. That was when it actually clicked. Ever since, Spot was a best friend - a study companion for almost 10 years - a friend to laugh with - a shoulder to lean on

I chose to pursue veterinary medicine over human medicine and Spot got a 24*7 on-call vet 😅

I am naturally good at understanding what is not said and with training dogs. I had the opportunity to conduct the first ever puppy socializing class in Sri Lanka when I was just 25 years at Pet Vet - where I worked earlier because I was passionate in holistic approaches to raising pets

As a practicing vet I see very young pets with a whole bunch of prescriptions, medicine and big bunches of medical records

My ultimate goal is to minimize the number of vet visits that every pet has to go through through my
passion, skills in veterinary medicine

Healing them with the deepest knowledge in internal medicine, science, technology combined with nutrition is my purpose

By that way, Spot Mc Delgado lived with me for 17 years

After 7 years in practice, it’s amazing to see how many pets are thriving and needing fewer veterinary visits over time. With every pet patient I see, I try to be as intentional, proactive and supportive as possible to simply, help the pet

So, this is my story of becoming Vet - Dr. Romela, for now ❤️

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