Short post, as I’ve had a long day, and a short night coming and another long day tomorrow. After working until 2:00 PM, I checked on my Mom and then spent my second stint parking cars at the Delta Fair until 10:00 PM (Thursday was my first shift). Our Boy Scout Troop and Venture Crew […]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Old Yeller Alerts will appear at the first of a post that doesn’t have a happy ending. I like to use real cases to illustrate an important or interesting medical situation. Unfortunately, some of those cases don’t have happy endings. Recently a reader told me that they avoid some of my posts to avoid an […]
So what happened in the wee hours this morning? First, the prologue… When I am presented with an animal who has medical problems, I am also being presented with a mystery. Sometimes it is much more mysterious to the pet’s owner than it is to me (see future post on emergency diaper rash). Sometimes the […]
I have got to be more careful what I write about. It’s 3:40 AM. I got the call thirty minutes ago and I’m at the clinic waiting for the dog who started having problems at 7:00 PM last night. Hey, it’s worse now.
One thirty AM: Doc: "…ungh…hello?" Anonymous caller: "Say, I was just watching my dog and…" Doc: "What, you don’t have cable? Neighbors pulled the blinds? You’re stoned? What?" AC: "What? Uh, anyway, I was just watching my dog and I noticed that he is passing a lot of blood. Is that normal?" Doc: "Absolutely, […]
Yes, that’s what the Delta Fair smells like. Normally, we stay open late on Tuesday evenings. Even though we’re usually open until noon on Saturdays, there are still some folks whose work hours make it hard to get their pet in for a visit. So, starting about 1990, we started scheduling until 7:00PM on Tuesdays. […]
It was just a little lump between Fluffy’s toes. I mean, it was tiny, but in three weeks it had grown and was about 3/8 of an inch. Her owner wasn’t too worried, but she wanted it "looked at". I tried to aspirate it (suck some cells out through a small needle) for a cytology […]
Two days out of the clinic, sixteen hours of driving, overpriced motels and meals: $____(I’m just not thinking about it, and yes, I used MasterCard). The "Dad’s Weekend" with my daughter: priceless. I’m not terribly keen on football, so when we found that her scuba certification conflicted with THE GAME, I wasn’t too disappointed. Instead, […]
Unless you ask his offspring. How fondly I remember the day when my teen-aged daughter first called me a geezer. What a proud day that was. It recalled to me my own youthful days of innocence. I felt a little shaky on the day when I first began to suspect that my own father didn’t […]
So, we’ve been treating our itchy pet for allergic itching with a variety of approaches, but he is still itching. How can this be? It could be that, despite our skin scrapings, cultures and other in-office tests, we missed something and it’s really not an allergy. We may need to do a skin biopsy (cutting […]