I’ve had a lot going on in the last couple of weeks, and I do hope to soon get around to posting it. I’m not going to just bail like my friend Dan Landrum. After no posts for months, he just posted a list of all the things he was going to post (but didn’t). […]
Category Archives: A day in the life
My daughter, Blair, will be graduating from college this weekend, so probably no blogging for a few days. Proud parents are off to Columbia, Missouri to see our eldest graduate with honors.
Regular readers may recall the story of Kirby, the dog with the leg problem who came down with Parvovirus before we could deal with his leg. He was on I.V. fluids for four days. It was another two days before he could really keep much food down. Today he was pronounced recovered from Canine Parvovirus […]
In the old days, the UPS man would sometimes leave packages on our doorstep. Sometimes clients drop off stool specimens on the doorstep before we open. And then there are days like today, when we find abandoned pets on our doorstep. They might be tossed over the fence in our exercise yard, or tied to […]
Here’s "Kirby". He came in as a rescue operation yesterday. One of my really good clients met Kirby and noticed him dragging his right front paw. His people said he had fallen out of a pickup truck about a month ago and injured it. They had been told the leg should be amputated, but just […]
Boy, you leave town for two days. While I was on the road Friday night, the national news broke the story about pet-food recalls. I don’t hear a thing about it until I check out Veterinary Information Network this morning… about the time the phone calls start pouring in. I put a couple of links […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…" […]