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  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
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  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    slider728 wrote: »
    6 minutes left in my shift and I am the next in the call queue....cmon clock!!

    Well you're home free by now either way!
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    "Rescue" people kill me. She traps a cat and wants us to check to see if the kittens are nursing. She can't find the kittens so while she is here with a feral cat, the kittens are starving and the cat is getting stressed out which will limit the milk production and the likelihood of going back to the kittens right away.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    The problem with the caveat "Don't take this medication is you are sensitive to it." is that you never know until you take it. Lost a dog tonight that turned out to be really sensitive to the medication the regular vet prescribed to it.
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    Arghhh, crazy rescue people. Good heart/bad brains.

    More crap happening near my place....
    Rain, Rain, GO AWAY!!!!

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  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    Wow! I grew up North of Seattle and we got a lot of rain, but you guys have really been hammered with rain this spring. We are supposed to start drying out over here. Any chance of that over there?
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    Ugh!!
    osoyoostimes.com/recent-rainfall-breaking-some-daily-records/
    globalnews.ca/news/3342245/metro-vancouver-breaks-61-year-old-rainfall-record/
    Now we are up for a big stretch of record high temperatures which means all the snowpack in the mountains will be coming down FAST!
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    You just can't catch a break this spring. With any luck, it won't be raining at the same time. Of course if you had any luck we wouldn't be talking about there.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    Do you ever have one of those nights where nothing is wrong but you just don't want to be at work? That's tonight.
  • kinetixtrainer2
    kinetixtrainer2 Posts: 9,286 Member
    Absolutely, just want to be on your bed. Watching something you enjoy, eating your favorite snack.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    That's about the size of it. Slowed down though so maybe if I go lift weights for a bit, it will motivate me again. :smile:
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    Ahhhh, yes. re: eating your favorite snack. Yesterday after a very full day of running around and picking up the taxes (Last day for Canadians :o ) and making arrangements to pay them, we were at a Community sponsored free dinner for volunteers (of any stripe). They fed us well on pasta and Caesar salad and two kinds of cake for dessert. I thought I might get away with a healthier dinner as I have Celiac Disease and brought my own along, but, dammit, they had already thought of everything and the pasta & sauce was certified GF and they provided lettuce with no fixings for me. No cake of course but I did gorge on too many carbs for my food plan. :s
    Of course, later after our 4 hour volunteer Citizens' Patrol I came home rather hungry, and ate 4 double smoked pepperoni sticks and 100g of old cheddar.
    Back on plan with a little more restraint, or I won't fit into my uniform pants :'(

    @sufferlandrian the vet clinic has a weight room? Geeeez, spoiled much? :p
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    I should have gone in to computers. At least then when something dies you can just replace parts. I know it's emergency work but sometimes the animals that don't make it kind of wear on you.
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    Yeah that's why I don't think I could be a vet or doc. Too hard when you lose patients.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    And tonight I swear I've got a client with Munchausen by Proxy syndrome.
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    Oh no! Poor pet at the mercy of their owner. :(
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    We have run every test we could and I've come to the conclusion the owner is either lying about what she is giving the dogs to eat, or she is lying about how much she watches them when they are out in the yard.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    Dog did great while here, but literally within two hours of going home, the client called to say the dog has bloody diarrhea. Had normal stool the whole time it was here (2 days). Ate and drank well. However, 2 hours after going home the owner calls and says it has bloody diarrhea. Hmmmmmm...... Things that just don't seem right.
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    Can you contact the SPCA with your info? Or whoever stands in for Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in your area? It's a legal right here to call in 'big guns' when neglect or animal abuse is more than just suspected. The animals get taken away to rescue and person is charged with crime. Since you are a vet your word would hold a lot of weight.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    Without hard evidence I wouldn't do it. I did that once early in my career and almost got sued. The only reason I didn't get sued was because the lady couldn't get a lawyer to take the case. That one involved a child. The dog had a torn rectum and they were joking about using a broom handle on the dog. They had a child in the home and I reported what we heard to authorities. I said I was only reporting it so they had some record of it. They ran straight over to the house and told the folks I was accusing them of child abuse. Now without hard evidence, I'm not telling anyone anything.
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    I understand. But what kind of sicko jokes about a broom handle in the dog. Just seeing this in print makes me physically ill, never mind on a child.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    There is such a high association between animal abuse and child abuse, I thought that would be something important. It caused me so much grief I would never do it again. When I contacted the police, they told me I shouldn't have said anything if I wasn't ready to make people mad. Simple solution. Once the harassment ended, I just never said anything again unless I had hard evidence. I'm not saying I've never reported anything again. I'm just saying I've never done it without hard evidence.
  • bethanie0825
    bethanie0825 Posts: 1,498 Member
    @sufferlandrian Good Lord....people suck so bad.

    @canadjineh Holy hell that's a mess. We have farmers losing crops from flooding but nothing like what you guys have going on there.

    In my world, the only excitement I have going on is wishing I was back on night shift. This day walker crap is for the birds
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    edited May 2017
    Sunny and 17C today with warmer weather coming this week. Fields are flooded and the river is a bit high but hoping the melt slows so the ground can soak it up. The Holsteins in the field down the road are wading through the 'swamp'. Funny how they have their own personalities, some wade right in to grab a mouthful of the soggy long grass, and others stick to the dry higher ground. Some lie in the muck and others head to the dry sawdust covered hillocks under the shelter to lie down and chew their cud.

    After 4 hours of sleep and taking care of Mom (early dementia) at her cataract surgery yesterday, I get a phone call from the boss for an emergency on-site (B&E but the building owner can't get the door fixed til today). Off I go for a 12 hour overnight, got home and went to bed at 8 this morning, woke up at noon so I could do business and make it to Mom's ophthalmolgist for her follow-up. I am exhausted. And I've lost track of my eating, it seems I am snacking on food every couple of hours for the past day & a half. I haven't even taken my pre-food supplements, because I don't have a big enough post-food window to do it in :#:o
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    We've had lots of flooding here in Missouri. I haven't been affected personally, but a lot of people around me have lost a lot, and in some areas houses were destroyed. My heart goes out to them.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    @canadjineh - I can't imagine how hard taking care of a parent with dementia must be. You have my sympathy.

    We had the sweetest old lady in yesterday. I was thinking, "I want to adopt her for my grandmother." Then it occurred to me she is likely the same age as my mother! How did getting old creep up on me so fast?
  • Sivadee00
    Sivadee00 Posts: 428 Member
    edited May 2017
    sufferlandrian wrote: »
    There is such a high association between animal abuse and child abuse, I thought that would be something important. It caused me so much grief I would never do it again. When I contacted the police, they told me I shouldn't have said anything if I wasn't ready to make people mad. Simple solution. Once the harassment ended, I just never said anything again unless I had hard evidence. I'm not saying I've never reported anything again. I'm just saying I've never done it without hard evidence.

    I am appauled at the idea that you were harassed. The crazier people are all about retaliation. No good deed goes unpunished.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    @canadijneh- It's so dang hard to track what you eat when you're that tired. I hope all of your mom's appointments turned out as well as could be.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    That awkward moment at work when you realize that you've eaten all of your food, and you basically lose the will to live...
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
    Sivadee00 wrote: »

    I am appauled at the idea that you were harassed. The crazier people are all about retaliation. No good deed goes unpunished.

    @Sivadee00 - Amen to that.

    @jennifer_417 - ROFL. Been there. :smile:

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