Sometimes it seems that your patient’s history is rigged to fool you. Of course, you don’t know that when you start the case. At that point, everything seems so logical. Sassy is a 7-years old Maine Coon cat. We had her in for dental cleaning a few weeks ago. Her pre-op blood-work was fine. No […]
Category Archives: A day in the life
This guy looks like such a nice dog. His owner told me, "You know, he gets irritable sometimes. Maybe you should use a muzzle." I posted previously on why I am a little reluctant to put the muzzle on. For some reason, I continue to labor under the delusion that my reflexes are faster than […]
No, not this Barney. I frequently give programs on veterinary medicine to school classes, Scout troops, and so forth. This week the first-graders had a story in their reading book about a veterinarian. Two of the teachers are clients and asked me if I would come and speak to the class, which I did. Kids […]
It’s been a busy week. I worked three nights at the Kiwanis youth soccer tournament (and yes, I have had enough cold rain to suit me… more than I can really enjoy, to tell you the truth). Wednesday after work I drove to Cape Girardeau to help interview candidates for a new District Executive for […]
The "Mighty Carson & Barnes Circus" was in town yesterday. The three-ring, big-tent show has visited Kennett twice before over the last twenty years and I, for one, was glad to see it again. After a rather dry year, Wednesday brought us as big a toad-strangling, gully-washing, street-filling rain as you could wish for (or […]
A day when someone actually ASKS you to sing is even better. Today a client asked how my brothers and their families were getting along. I had to regale him with the story of my nephew Max and the Wild West Arts Convention and the his Guinness Book of Records appearance. That then got into […]
One of my high school classmates became a veterinarian as a second career. When she (and I) went to college the first time, women were not exactly being encouraged to apply to veterinary school (the dark ages — sometime between the Norman Conquest in 1066 and 1980). She became a teacher, despite really always wanting […]
People make a lot of jokes about not working on Labor Day. Drive around town and you see plenty of people working, though. I typically cover the clinic chores on holidays. I feel that I need to check on the patients that are here, so I might as well clean up after them, too and […]
Yesterday morning, our schedule was unusually light. It put me in mind of a conversation between the legendary masked rider of the plains and his faithful Indian companion."Ugh, plenty quiet around here, Kemo Sabe. Yes, Tonto, too quiet." That was not a problem today. Combine a full appointment schedule, plus people who are afraid you […]
The downer today was finding out that a long-time client has terminal cancer. I went to visit her in the nursing home and she really didn’t recognize me. We talked for a while and she finally associated me with her dog. Though she didn’t really remember me, she talked about the instructions for her dog’s […]