draggonlaady

Wish me luck, I'll apparently need it.

Thing 1: Forgot my lunch at home, discovered this when I got to work and went to put it in the fridge.

Thing 2: Receptionist 1 (who came in yesterday afternoon instead of morning, because she wanted to stay home and clean her house instead of bothering with coming to work...) sends Receptionist 2 to find out if I've returned a phone call to a client yet. At 8:02 am. A message which Receptionist 1 left for me yesterday afternoon while I was NOT HERE. (I get every other Tues afternoon off to make up for working every other Saturday.)
Hey... I suddenly realize that that makes 2 straight days that I did NOT have to work with Receptionist 1, as she was gone all of day before yesterday so she could babysit her grandkids...)

I will update as the day goes on. Here's hoping the start was just a pothole and the rest of the road is smoothly paved!

ETA: Sat around being bored for a couple hours, then went to total dead-run crazy for a couple.
First appointment in, Assistant comes and asks if I know that I have a couple animals to look at. I say no. Receptionist 1 hyperdefensively starts in on "they just got here, I haven't had time to..." Right. RIGHTYOH, but I had time to do my callbacks before 8:02? Frag off.
So then I get to do rotating appointments between the 3 drop-offs, the old cat, and the limping dog, with periodic Receptionist 2 "is this done yet" questions. No, no it's not done yet, if it was, I'd hand you the chart to bill her out. No, it's STILL not done yet, I WILL HAND YOU THE CHART WHEN I AM DONE.
Luckily, dogs and cat were all friendly and easy to work with. Except that one drop off cat I haven't done yet because she's cowering in the back of the kennel peeing on herself and hissing. But let's not focus on that. Friendly owners, cooperative animals, all is going as smoothly as possible given the feast-or-famine scheduling.

And now, off to find lunch since mine is not here. Will deal with crazy-cat this afternoon.

Afternoon was a high-speed blur. Crazy-cat stayed crazy; we netted and vaccinated but did no exam. Latest rescue pup was in to re-x-ray his leg; healing well. Old cat from this morning provided urine at the last minute, so he got to go home for the night. Emergency/walk-in goat kid (brother of the one I delivered Saturday) hypothermic and hypoglycemic, which interrupted the appointment with the ancient poodle with heart and kidney problems that has now started having seizures. Cut the tails and dewclaws off of a litter of pups somewhere in the middle of that. Bossdoc's surgery dog from this morning is having a hell of a day and not breathing well (I cannot for the love of life figure out why anybody would intentionally breed bulldogs, they are just too screwed up to live comfortably). Dr S had 2 sick dairy cows added into his schedule, and then I sent him out to the goat place to check babies' mother for mastitis and see if he can figure why she's not feeding babies while I worked on baby and finished up the drop offs from the morning. Now I'm waiting on goat people to bring in milk for the kid because I'm not willing to put his chilled little self back out in the barn tonight. Somewhere in there was an overheard phone call--someone with a dog that's whelping but had the last pup several hours ago, they're sure she has more pups but she's not pushing now. What? bring her in? but she's not acting sick.... fine, whatever, I think she should be seen but I can't force you to bring her in. We close at 5 so if you're going to bring her in, CALL US BEFORE THEN. They haven't called. Yet. It's 5:03.