What made you an emotional eater this week?
zophiel67
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I know I have this problem and figure that as emotional creatures in a high-stress job, at least one or two others here do. So what cases made you struggle in the last week?
1. A 10-month old cat that was shot with buckshot. In the face. And the butt. And I didn't figure it out for two weeks. And I think he might have a BB in the back of one of his eyes.
2. A 70lb 10yo pyometra who came in at 1 on Saturday when we close at 2, then waited till Monday to cut. Then she just wouldn't stop bleeding during surgery. Three hours in, it finally started to slow... and I started wondering if that was because she was running out.
3. The fact that I accidentally agreed to a CE that put me working for 7 days in a row, and they've all been 10-hour days. And it made me miss a weekend with my son, who has been complaining for a good month now about how he never sees me. Oh, and I ate pretty much constantly through the CE just to stay awake. Double fail.
1. A 10-month old cat that was shot with buckshot. In the face. And the butt. And I didn't figure it out for two weeks. And I think he might have a BB in the back of one of his eyes.
2. A 70lb 10yo pyometra who came in at 1 on Saturday when we close at 2, then waited till Monday to cut. Then she just wouldn't stop bleeding during surgery. Three hours in, it finally started to slow... and I started wondering if that was because she was running out.
3. The fact that I accidentally agreed to a CE that put me working for 7 days in a row, and they've all been 10-hour days. And it made me miss a weekend with my son, who has been complaining for a good month now about how he never sees me. Oh, and I ate pretty much constantly through the CE just to stay awake. Double fail.
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Having an INR of 1.5 and a $60,000 hospital bill made me an emotional eater this week.0
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Holy crap!!! I feel like that's at least a little bit justified...0
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At least I havent gained any.0
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That's certainly a good thing. At least you can handle something like that. If I got that bill, I'd have to start by burning down the old house and taking out an insurance policy on the ex...0
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I'm just a student at the moment, but holy crap vet exams make me binge eat like nothing else. I think it's got to do with the stress of passing coupled with large amounts of time spent sittings and reading. Not walking around or being in lectures makes me feel somewhat bored and then I start to eat. I've only got a year and a bit left before I graduate so hopefully I won't have too many more exam binges, but I know getting into practice will be stressful too and I'm going to always have issues to cope with.0
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And I disappeared again...
Exams are definitely the devil when it comes to binging. I don't know how helpful it would be, but I know some textbooks are available on kindle. Could you download them so you could read while walking or using a stationary bike? I keep thinking about getting Ettinger's on my kindle so I can pace when I have to research something odd I'm dealing with.0 -
Got within 2 miles from home last night when I got a call to go back in for a calving. Continued home for a snack because it was 6 pm and I was starving- ate a WHOLE bag of chocolate goldfish and 2 chewy granola bars in the 45 minutes it took me to get back to work. Ate supper at 8pm- had bruschetta on pizza dough, another super choice. Got called back in at 12am for another calving, finished that and decided just to stay at the clinic. Good thing because a prolapse came in at 3 am, bad thing because there were 2 donuts left in the break room which I had been ignoring but which I finally inhaled. Layed down around 4 and listened to one of the boarding dogs howl for another hour. Fell asleep only to be woken up at 7 by a woman phoning the emergency line to see if we had any lamb tubing supplies for sale... EMERGENCY means EMERGENCY not do you have a question and just because you are up so should everyone else be! It is now noon and I just got back from 2 cow post mortems- ate whatever I could find in the staff fridge which belonged to me, which luckily only amounted to about 450 calories.
So tonight I will go home, eat, go to bed and be too exhausted to work out. I feel every one of my 46 years right now :sick:0 -
Holy cow... almost literally. Large animal vets in general amaze me. I would love to do equine repro, but it wasn't an option coming out of school (effectively) a single mom of an infant. Even now, my son complains he never sees me because my Saturdays on somehow ended up on the weekends he was with me instead of his dad. And of course, as soon as I got that straightened out, his dad is disappearing. Maybe permanently - I need to see what I can do about this.
But enough about me - it's amazing you didn't fall asleep behind the wheel or rob a Taco Bell for food with that kind of night. I'm sure you're not happy with the eating of things, but I think you did okay.
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I leaned on a bag of M&Ms for support after a tough day at work. First a deep chested spay whose left pedicle just kept on oozing. Then a button removal from the duodenum of a mean cat- the owner wants the button back as it is now worth a significant amount of money, only to finish off the day with a geriatric cat full of palpable abdominal masses whose owner chose to take home rather than euthanize. Where were the cows today- I miss delivering babies to appreciative owners.0
