Life is full of surprises. You dont get to say “i’ll never miss another day of work” because you dont know what injury, car accident, or illness is in your future thats going to make that statement a promise you cant keep. Situations arise that must be handled. You dont get to choose whether or …
Tag Archives: veterinarian
A Country Solution
I’m currently covering my coworker’s maternity leave which means i’m seeing her patients and my boss is seeing his and my patients. We are one man down so i cant exactly call in and say i need a day off to go handle a dog thing. I usually order my flea and heart-worm meds from …
Cricket Gets Spayed
This is what it has come to. Last night i slept in increments of 15 minutes for about six hours so that i could get up and stop her from taking the cone off, alligator death rolling, or swinging from the crate like a monkey on acid. It was really a two person job. One …
A Trip to the Vet
The dogs needed their anal glands expressed. I didnt usually get them expressed outside of their checkup because they generally made solid poos and didnt have much to express. However, earlier this year they both had distemper and nearly died. They had runny and mucousy and even bloody poos for a long time and the …
Sili and Cashew
i’ve been putting off writing about Sili and Cashew’s illness because it is still very raw. I began transitioning them back onto dry food last night and they’ve only been allowed outside for four days now. They’ve been off the coconut oil and pumpkin for two days. In my mind i don’t think i’ve yet …
Cashew’s Brush with Death
There came a time in my evening where i looked down and noted that Cashew’s face looked like this. Cashew is an aussie. She doesn’t complain. She doesn’t complain when there’s cactus spines in her foot. She doesn’t complain when she’s covered in fire ants. She doesn’t complain when she runs head first into a …
The Clinic
Without my health care salary i could no longer afford our vet. We were settling into our lives in our new tax bracket. I had to switch the brands of supplements i had taken for a year to cheaper ones. We bought dry supplies from the clearance table in town. I found bar soap for …
Lord Help Me with this Dog
Keeping Cashew alive had been a full time job since day 1. As i have alluded to in the past, the dog had absolutely zero survival instinct. She had been very near death multiple times, to the point where the emergency vet in the nearest city to us said i had to stop calling because …