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Oh yeah. We're having fun now.
Feb. 14th, 2012 04:13 pmWe are short a doctor, which means I am on call all the time. This situation will likely continue until June. Whee. For the last 3 weeks, I've had a senior student here, and have been able to shunt a decent amount of routine work onto her, giving her experience and myself a very welcome break. Sadly, she decided to go finish the rest of her senior year and actually graduate rather than staying here as my indentured servant. boo.
Yesterday, I got to have a very fun conversation with a woman who has 2 6-month old giant breed dogs that are apparently completely untrained. She wants to have a minor surgery done on one of them, but is unable to get him in a car or truck. She requested that I come get the dog and transport him to the clinic. HAHAHAHAHAHAH. I explained that 1: I do not offer this service, 2: the dog is no more likely to load into a car for me than for her, 3: the back of my truck is full of equipment, with no place for a dog to ride, and 4: she should be training these dogs to load ANYWAY for the next time she needs to do something with them. Then I offered several ideas for training the dog to load into a car, or a truck, or a trailer, or a kennel (which could be lifted into a truck or trailer). I do not expect to actually see this dog any time soon, but will let you know how it goes if I do.
Today, my first dental cleaning appointment turned into a congestive heart failure and obesity discussion, sent the dog home with medication for his heart and said we'll consider doing the dental if medication helps stabilize heart function. This managed to take LONGER than just doing a dental likely would have. Sigh.
We were already scheduled busily enough that I'd called Dr M in to fix a broken leg that'd come in last night, because neither Dr S nor myself would have had time to do it today, so when the woman with the cow problem called it was a bit of a scramble to get out the door to go see her. Middle-aged cow with a broken horn. Oh, and can we vaccinate some heifers as long as I'm coming anyway? As I was pulling into their driveway, I got a call notifying me that the cow had died. Replied that I'm here anyway, so we might as well do the vaccinations. They declined to have me necropsy the cow--I'm pretty sure she didn't actually die of a broken horn, but guess I'll never know. Glad it died before I got there instead of right after I left though!
Today is my afternoon off. It is now 4:10, and I have been working on charts from this morning and catching up on a ton of paperwork (some of which should have been done in January...hahahaha) since 12:00. I am, I think, finished. Maybe. Some afternoon off! Anyhoo... away to dinner with Bruce and his folks, and tomorrow I get to stay late to do payroll. Someone remind me why I bought this joint?
Yesterday, I got to have a very fun conversation with a woman who has 2 6-month old giant breed dogs that are apparently completely untrained. She wants to have a minor surgery done on one of them, but is unable to get him in a car or truck. She requested that I come get the dog and transport him to the clinic. HAHAHAHAHAHAH. I explained that 1: I do not offer this service, 2: the dog is no more likely to load into a car for me than for her, 3: the back of my truck is full of equipment, with no place for a dog to ride, and 4: she should be training these dogs to load ANYWAY for the next time she needs to do something with them. Then I offered several ideas for training the dog to load into a car, or a truck, or a trailer, or a kennel (which could be lifted into a truck or trailer). I do not expect to actually see this dog any time soon, but will let you know how it goes if I do.
Today, my first dental cleaning appointment turned into a congestive heart failure and obesity discussion, sent the dog home with medication for his heart and said we'll consider doing the dental if medication helps stabilize heart function. This managed to take LONGER than just doing a dental likely would have. Sigh.
We were already scheduled busily enough that I'd called Dr M in to fix a broken leg that'd come in last night, because neither Dr S nor myself would have had time to do it today, so when the woman with the cow problem called it was a bit of a scramble to get out the door to go see her. Middle-aged cow with a broken horn. Oh, and can we vaccinate some heifers as long as I'm coming anyway? As I was pulling into their driveway, I got a call notifying me that the cow had died. Replied that I'm here anyway, so we might as well do the vaccinations. They declined to have me necropsy the cow--I'm pretty sure she didn't actually die of a broken horn, but guess I'll never know. Glad it died before I got there instead of right after I left though!
Today is my afternoon off. It is now 4:10, and I have been working on charts from this morning and catching up on a ton of paperwork (some of which should have been done in January...hahahaha) since 12:00. I am, I think, finished. Maybe. Some afternoon off! Anyhoo... away to dinner with Bruce and his folks, and tomorrow I get to stay late to do payroll. Someone remind me why I bought this joint?
