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Just had a guy come in that was just a charmer. His dog has been attacked. He won't tell me what attacked it. It has a couple of bite wounds on the abdomen and neck like a big dog picked it up and shook it. The gums are pink still but the dog is cold. I listen to the lungs and it sounds like we either have blood in the chest or a ruptured diaphragm. I turn to the tech and say we need X-Rays to see what is going on in the chest. This guy just starts going off about how I should F...ing examine dog and how I didn't even look at the F...ing wounds. I just look at him and tell him, "I did examine your dog. That's how I know it's not moving air well and I need to know what is going on in the chest so we can know how to keep her breathing." He just yells, "I've had it with this F...ing place! You guys are the biggest bunch if incompetents I've ever worked with! I'm just taking the dog home and putting it down myself!" The tech was genuinely concerned he was going to start punching people. The older woman that was with him finally talked some sense into him and let me put the dog down rather than him take him home and shoot it.0
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A vet knot knowing conversions. tut tu.... and its lbs and oz's here too Sufferman....don't forget we invented it...we invented everything I think....lol....14lbs to a stone.....you got it correct though.....0
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@sufferlandrian my lab loves to eat rocks! I may end up in the same predicament! Although he does love to eat anything, his favorites are shoes, any type of firewood or charcoal, and rocks! The jerk with the dog, that's horrible! One of the many things I could not deal with if I had ever become a vet. (I didn't because I couldn't handle a lot of aspects of it).
Finally free for my weekend (short as it is now with OT)! I am wired so I am likely to be up for a while. Hope everyone else has a great day/night.0 -
sufferlandrian wrote: »Just had a guy come in that was just a charmer. His dog has been attacked. He won't tell me what attacked it. It has a couple of bite wounds on the abdomen and neck like a big dog picked it up and shook it. The gums are pink still but the dog is cold. I listen to the lungs and it sounds like we either have blood in the chest or a ruptured diaphragm. I turn to the tech and say we need X-Rays to see what is going on in the chest. This guy just starts going off about how I should F...ing examine dog and how I didn't even look at the F...ing wounds. I just look at him and tell him, "I did examine your dog. That's how I know it's not moving air well and I need to know what is going on in the chest so we can know how to keep her breathing." He just yells, "I've had it with this F...ing place! You guys are the biggest bunch if incompetents I've ever worked with! I'm just taking the dog home and putting it down myself!" The tech was genuinely concerned he was going to start punching people. The older woman that was with him finally talked some sense into him and let me put the dog down rather than him take him home and shoot it.
How many times did you punch this bloke once he left the building???? good chance for a workout there pal....what a plank.....should be registered so they cannot own dogs or animals....or children probably too for that matter....makes my blood boil...0 -
sufferlandrian wrote: »Just had a guy come in that was just a charmer. His dog has been attacked. He won't tell me what attacked it. It has a couple of bite wounds on the abdomen and neck like a big dog picked it up and shook it. The gums are pink still but the dog is cold. I listen to the lungs and it sounds like we either have blood in the chest or a ruptured diaphragm. I turn to the tech and say we need X-Rays to see what is going on in the chest. This guy just starts going off about how I should F...ing examine dog and how I didn't even look at the F...ing wounds. I just look at him and tell him, "I did examine your dog. That's how I know it's not moving air well and I need to know what is going on in the chest so we can know how to keep her breathing." He just yells, "I've had it with this F...ing place! You guys are the biggest bunch if incompetents I've ever worked with! I'm just taking the dog home and putting it down myself!" The tech was genuinely concerned he was going to start punching people. The older woman that was with him finally talked some sense into him and let me put the dog down rather than him take him home and shoot it.
How many times did you punch this bloke once he left the building???? good chance for a workout there pal....what a plank.....should be registered so they cannot own dogs or animals....or children probably too for that matter....makes my blood boil...
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I wish! I've tried to tell people for years that you should have to have a license to own a pet or have kids but I always get outvoted. I do like your idea of taking him behind the woodshed for a little wood plank education on proper etiquette.
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Another night with another 4 hours of overtime. Here until 11 AM tomorrow. Good thing nothing really happens here.0
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Except alarms that people won't go fix?
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sufferlandrian wrote: »Except alarms that people won't go fix?
Yeah...in fact housekeeping just came in to ask me about the alarm, which is STILL going off. Allegedly, Health and Safety has been contacted and they will be working with our physical plant staff to fix it today. In the mean time, oxygen levels aren't at a severely low point. Yet.
This whole thing is weird because APPARENTLY Health and Safety came in on Saturday to 'fix' it. So it was only going off intermittently. All day. Now levels are at 17% and that thing is just SCREAMING and has been all night. I have sent all the emails I can and I have been reassured by my sergeant that my job is to observe and report, unless otherwise directed by him.
So, I basically received permission to sit and watch a movie until people start showing up and I have to log them in.0 -
I'm out in less than an hour...can't wait to take a nap while the tot is in preschool. I snuck in a few hours in the morning yesterday so I my daughter could go hunt eggs with her cousins, but I haven't been back to bed since then and it is really catching up to me now...
On a side note, I think it is amusing when people ask me (while I'm at work 3rd shift) what kinds of places there are to go "out" at night. Uhhh...I'm here...at work...when everyone is "out". Do you really think I'm up on where to go out?? (Even if I didn't work 3rds, my fiance and I are complete homebodies...I'm no help either way!)0 -
@Frankie_Felinius - I know! Some one asked the other day what to do at night here. I could only answer with, "Well, I haven't been to the bars in 15 years, I can't tell you how late restaurants are open and I'm not sure what movies are playing. However, if you want to know what time Nickle Charlie's is open in the morning I can tell you that." 0
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does not work that way in UK.....we are British....everyone is tucked up in bed by 10pm every nihgt...unless you work...its the law....lol...
The thing I find is people do not comprehend the fact I sleep during the day.....I have 2 people that no matter how many time I tell them that I sleep from 10am to 7pm (if lucky) they will still ring me between them times......if they wake me they get offended when I give it them both barrels.....and I am nasty when woken....lol.....but they continue to do it still.......I also have a gardener.....I tell him not to come to my house after 12pm......every week he comes at 2 or 3 pm to mow my lawn........He has a shock coming....my other half has also started nights now too.....and if she tells him once not to come....then he does.....she will hurt him physically.....lol0 -
does not work that way in UK.....we are British....everyone is tucked up in bed by 10pm every nihgt...unless you work...its the law....lol...
The thing I find is people do not comprehend the fact I sleep during the day.....I have 2 people that no matter how many time I tell them that I sleep from 10am to 7pm (if lucky) they will still ring me between them times......if they wake me they get offended when I give it them both barrels.....and I am nasty when woken....lol.....but they continue to do it still.......I also have a gardener.....I tell him not to come to my house after 12pm......every week he comes at 2 or 3 pm to mow my lawn........He has a shock coming....my other half has also started nights now too.....and if she tells him once not to come....then he does.....she will hurt him physically.....lol
I need a sign for my yard that says "Day sleeper. Solicitors will be eaten!"0 -
I sleep from about 2 P.M. to 9 P.M. I can't use my earplugs at first because I go to bed when my kid naps but when my fiance comes home and into our room for the monitor at 3:30, it wakes me and I put in earplugs. Luckily, once the plugs are in...I rarely hear anything nowadays. We've had two neighbors over the years and both we had problems with their dogs barking. The first couple had their dog on a leash (if left not leashed in the yard he would jump fence) not more than 15 feet from my pillow to his yapping face and let him bark for HOURS on end (no exaggeration). I asked them nicely many times to bring the dog in when he was barking. They would at first and slowly the time would increase. One day I had had it while trying to sleep. I went over there barefoot (there was snow on the ground), braless and wild-haired and kinda flipped out. They moved a month later. Then the 2nd neighbors moved in and whenever they put their dog out in the yard and she would bark her face off at everything. I spoke with them about me working third shift and they bought a shock collar. But when they left for the day, they would leave their windows open and take the collar off and ALL day I could hear her barking IN her house like she was in MY house! So I called the police, twice. They have since kept the windows shut and built a gate to keep her in the back yard (where she doesn't bark as much). We have a dog and he likes to bark at any person who isn't a resident of our street or our regular mailman but the MINUTE we hear him, he gets called inside! If baffles me when people let their dogs act like that...even if you aren't being considerate of shift workers...be considerate of your neighbors in general! No one wants to hear an incessantly barking dog!0
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Woot! Just broke a phone slamming it down so hard!0
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Dude. I hope they don't take that out of your pay.0
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Woot! Just broke a phone slamming it down so hard!
Got a couple of new pics for you mate.....(found these on Google for you...)
One is a sign for your office door.......one is a new profile pic for you.....lol...
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I get one night off and now I'm wanting more. I was fine while I didn't get a break. I had a taste of what it's like not to work and I'm addicted. It's like meth only better for you. 0
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sufferlandrian wrote: »I get one night off and now I'm wanting more. I was fine while I didn't get a break. I had a taste of what it's like not to work and I'm addicted. It's like meth only better for you.
After tonight, I get (hopefully) TWO nights off! I'm so excited I could pee myself!0 -
LOL. I can relate. 0
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Well, Nightshifters, I am back on evenings 12p-8p, but having a hard time with that so I guess I still belong here until I adjust.
I can relate to all the neighbor trouble, my neighbors driveway is RIGHT by my room, not even 15 feet and they like to rev motorcycles at all hours!! They are nightshifters so I would have thought they would be more considerate. Nope. They go out there at 9:30am, and wake me up as soon as it is nice enough to ride! It is like 30 minutes too, not easy to ignore! Weekends, it can be anytime, they are out there noisy at any time!
They also have a small dog, not sure of breed, that literally barks all day and night if they are not home or attending to it! It is inside, and I can hear it inside MY house with all windows closed!! It also barks its little face off outside! My dog is in the minute he doesn't listen when I tell him enough! It is just inconsiderate whether it is you sleeping, a baby napping or just general irritation to hear that all day! My dog luckily usually is a "Hey! You didn't come see me!!" barker. So he is easy to quiet. The aggressive and anxious ones I understand are harder but really?0 -
I am planning on a night hike, weather permitting of course, for tomorrow night. The first and last time I went was with a 'complication' and now that I am complication-free I plan on making new memories of that place that don't include him.
Afterwards, I am going to play some WoW.0 -
sufferlandrian wrote: »I wish! I've tried to tell people for years that you should have to have a license to own a pet or have kids but I always get outvoted. I do like your idea of taking him behind the woodshed for a little wood plank education on proper etiquette.
The license should be for the animals. At least Child Protective will step in if you are a horrible parent. The animal abuse laws and enforcement are not enough at all!0 -
@lilaclovebird, do you use a headlamp or what?
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Got a dog in that got into a fight with the owners other dog. Now the first dog has a broken leg from where the second dog bit it so hard it fractured the limb. Both dogs are about 100 lbs so it's no small task to break the leg. It's the fourth time I've had the first dog in here for bite wounds from the other dog. I had to have the discussion about getting rid of the second dog. The husband wasn't very happy.0
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@fatjon73 yep, first one goes on the door.
It's 5:30am and just now checking in... one of those nights.
Amazing this system runs at all with so many broken trains that they just flat out refuse to fix because it requires someone in the responsible departments to do actual work!0 -
@lilaclovebird, do you use a headlamp or what?
If the weather is nice and the moon hasn't waned too much, I won't. If it's too cloudy/rainy, I will simply not go. I look for warm, lightly breezy nights for things like that and hopefully I will do it EARLY in the morning and catch the sunrise.
Sadly, we are losing 7 of our chimps today. It's a mixed bag. On the ONE hand, they are going to Chimp Haven, which is good! On the other hand, they won't be here with us anymore.
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lilaclovebird wrote: »@lilaclovebird, do you use a headlamp or what?
If the weather is nice and the moon hasn't waned too much, I won't. If it's too cloudy/rainy, I will simply not go. I look for warm, lightly breezy nights for things like that and hopefully I will do it EARLY in the morning and catch the sunrise.
Sadly, we are losing 7 of our chimps today. It's a mixed bag. On the ONE hand, they are going to Chimp Haven, which is good! On the other hand, they won't be here with us anymore.
Why are you losing them??? Not sure on the reason for having them in the first place......but why 7 at one go?? are they research Chimps?? that have come to the end of usefulness??? can they not be homed in a park or such instead of being "lost" I presume you mean put to sleep???
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lilaclovebird wrote: »@lilaclovebird, do you use a headlamp or what?
If the weather is nice and the moon hasn't waned too much, I won't. If it's too cloudy/rainy, I will simply not go. I look for warm, lightly breezy nights for things like that and hopefully I will do it EARLY in the morning and catch the sunrise.
Sadly, we are losing 7 of our chimps today. It's a mixed bag. On the ONE hand, they are going to Chimp Haven, which is good! On the other hand, they won't be here with us anymore.
Why are you losing them??? Not sure on the reason for having them in the first place......but why 7 at one go?? are they research Chimps?? that have come to the end of usefulness??? can they not be homed in a park or such instead of being "lost" I presume you mean put to sleep???
Oh no no no! In fact all of our chimps are not researched on here unless it is purely behavioral. They are going to "Chimp Haven" not "Chimp Heaven" it's like a wild life preserve for chimps.
Many of our chimps were taken from research facilities where they were put through medical research and harmed physically and psychologically. Some were even circus performers or kept as pets. Here they have outside areas where they play in dirt and grass and we do our best to socialize and care for them ideally until their dying days. But when openings happen at Chimp Haven we gladly send our most elderly or the ones with the most social issues to live a more free life.
Some of our chimps from being out in the Texas sun have developed skin cancer and they receive some treatments here. We have some that were infected in labs with HIV or Hepatitis that we care for here that wouldn't have a home anywhere else.
Our chimps are well taken care of and very enriched with toys, climbing areas and much more. The worst/best part I think is that they eat WAY better than I do. We get big 18 wheeler produce trucks here twice a week for deliveries!
They are like family members to many of our techs and doctors here so it is a sad time, but we know they will be well taken care of at Chimp Haven.0 -
@fatjon73 yep, first one goes on the door.
It's 5:30am and just now checking in... one of those nights.
Amazing this system runs at all with so many broken trains that they just flat out refuse to fix because it requires someone in the responsible departments to do actual work!
Trains as in locomotives or Trains as in subway?0
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