Antonia DeGroot (she/her)

BAS (Psych + Neuro), MSc (Epidemiology) | Aspiring food-animal veterinarian (OVC 2025) | Passionate about veterinary communication + wellbeing.

[Antonia DeGroot (she/her) @AntoniaDegroot]

Thank you @DemeterVet for delivering an awesome lunch talk about the day in the life of a swine veterinarian. The OVC food animal club members enjoyed hearing your insights and very much appreciated the sponsored lunch! 🐷

[Antonia DeGroot (she/her) @AntoniaDegroot]

Thank you to the @OntCowDocs for having me yesterday. I had such a great time presenting my MSc research on veterinarian and food-animal producer communication to a room of amazing cow docs. 😊🐮

[Ty DeGroot @DegrootTy]

Almost ready for trusses,open house late November,everyone welcome! @FGCltd @CarisWelding @CanarmAgSystems @keithsiemon @polsltd @deweteringagri @elligsenelectric @jantziplumbing @dwyermfgltd @PigEasyLLC @wilhemexcavating @BVHexcavation @GVFswine @WallensteinFeed @TopigsNorsvin

[Kendra @kendracorny]

As summer comes to an end, so does my time with some awesome coworkers! Thanks for all you have done, can’t wait to have you back! Good luck in school, nerds 🤓🐷

[Antonia DeGroot (she/her) @AntoniaDegroot]

@kendracorny @carlywouters @JennRutherford9 Awww! Miss ya already. 🥰

[Antonia DeGroot (she/her) @AntoniaDegroot]

It was a fantastic summer working @DemeterVet. Thank you for having me! #putporkonyourfork

[Demeter Veterinary Services @DemeterVet]

We want to thank our summer students for a great summer!we enjoyed working with you all! We wish you well for the coming school year!
#summerstudents, #ontariopork
#agstudents #agcareers

[Antonia DeGroot (she/her) @AntoniaDegroot]

@cow_vet @OntVetCollege @msuvets I so enjoyed having you as an instructor in phase 1 this past year. Good luck at your new position Dr. Gordon! OVC will miss you!

[ZOE AMIRA SLICK 🦋 @zoeamira]

i’m so tired of abortion rights being framed around truly tragic circumstances like assault and incest. if you get pregnant & you don’t want to be pregnant, it is your right over your own body that is under siege. no one, including a fetus, can use your body against your consent.

[Layan Alrahmani, MD, FACOG @DrAlrahmani]

🧵 Hi. I’m an MFM physician. Here is a list of women I took care of who chose to end their pregnancy

🔺Fetal chromosomal abnormalities
🔺Complex fetal heart defect
🔺Hydrops fetalis (heart failure in the fetus)
🔺Skeletal dysplasia

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

It can take vaccinated ppl up to 4 days after symptoms first appear before they test positive. Please isolate if you have ANY symptoms, and test using the oral-nasal method for greatest sensitivity. Let’s take care of each other, since government won’t. https://t.co/olJPIVlTlu

[Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. @kprather88]

COVID is mainly transmitted through aerosols which linger in the air and NOT droplets which fall to the ground fast (w/in 6 ft). Aerosols can build up in a poorly ventilated room like cigarette smoke. This means everyone sharing the same indoor air can be exposed and infected.

[Antonia DeGroot (she/her) @AntoniaDegroot]

@LiaDee17 Aw, thank you Amelia 🥰

[Antonia DeGroot (she/her) @AntoniaDegroot]

Next Monday, I’m entering my first round of exams as a veterinary student. 13 exams in three weeks (all but one are cumulative, content began in September 😬). I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’m going to make it to the end of April with my sanity, and here’s my game plan:

[Antonia DeGroot (she/her) @AntoniaDegroot]

And at the end of the day, I’m reminding myself, being a veterinarian is a life long learning process. My first year exams will not predict my future career success and I will continue to learn and grow.

Good luck to everyone in exam season! Control the controllable. 💕

[Antonia DeGroot (she/her) @AntoniaDegroot]

4) I ordered Hello Fresh for the month to ensure I’m taking time to cook and not eating takeout
5) I’m treating myself to all the Starbucks iced coffee 🥰

[Ria @BarstoolRia]

Sometimes you just need a good sit down in the shower

[Antonia DeGroot (she/her) @AntoniaDegroot]

Learning to live with covid should be: masking, vax/booster campaigns, paid sick days, ventilation, access to testing, free RATs. What gov't has decided learning to live with covid is: let people die, let HCW continue to bear the brunt, have millions of ppl suffer with #LongCovid

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

Trying to imagine March 2022 me explaining to March 2020 me that the pandemic would still be raging and how absolutely ridiculous the mismanagement of the pandemic would become.

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

I wish the "We'll all get COVID" people would be more specific. Like,

V% of us will have debilitating chronic fatigue

W% of us will have heart disease or strokes

X% of us will experience brain shrinkage

Y% of us will become diabetic

Z% of us will suffer cognitive impairment