In ancient times when I went through veterinary school, our dental training was pretty limited. In latter years I have bought textbooks, read journals and attended training courses. There are still plenty of things to learn, though, and I’m off to Columbia, Missouri for a 2-day dental training course. Saturday it’s lectures all day, while […]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
This is Roxxi. She looks a little woozy because she got spayed today (a complete ovario-hysterectomy, i.e. the removal of the entire puppy works). People tend to think of this surgery as routine because it is performed so commonly. Of course, it’s never routine for the dog — for her it’s a once-in-a-lifetime major […]
We see mostly dogs and cats at good old KVC, so this is an unusual picture. Saturday afternoon we had 22 horses on the lot at one time. The trailers are scrambled around, so I couldn’t really get everybody lined up for the group picture (althought the short horses are in front). They were all […]
After learning about it at Kiwanis, I decided to become a volunteer in the CASA program that is about to get started in Dunklin County. The idea is similar to that of the medieval champion, which is one of the reasons it appeals to me, I think. Just as Wilfred of Ivanhoe could take the […]
All this week I’ve been working through some or all of the noon hour, coming back after supper and working late. On Thursdays, we close at noon, but today’s emergencies had me going until 2:00PM. I just felt a little bit tired. Yesterday’s weather was absolutely beautiful and this morning it was much colder and […]
In yesterday’s post I talked about the importance of looking at the whole patient, regardless of what the client believes is the most pressing problem. Talk about karma. Today, little Matrix here was scheduled for an exam and evaluation because he had been having seizures. When a patient has had episodes that we suspect could […]
Today I got my sample copy of "Healthy Pet" magazine. We are sending this out quarterly as a newsletter for our clients, and they let us add a custom message on the the cover wraps. The first thing that I looked for was to see if my special announcements (including our BLOG) had been included […]
This was one of those days where I had it all figured out…until the doors opened. Then we began adding things, like the dog whose house-mate bit him and broke one side of his jaw. Like the cat who just hadn’t been feeling 100%, and was losing some weight. She turned out to have diabetes […]
Last night at eleven o’clock, the phone rang while I was already at the clinic seeing an emergency. Since I was waiting for a lab result, it was no problem to answer (as opposed to being in the middle of sewing up a wound, when it would be a problem to answer the phone). "…uh…" […]
Three times in the last week I have been presented with a pet who was gravely and terminally ill, and the people felt the illness had come on suddenly. I looked at the pet and saw things like being twenty percent underweight, bones "sticking out", dehydration, sunken eyes, swollen abdomen. These are things that didn’t […]