The official nightshift thread....

Hi everyone! My 8 hr patrols are leaking over into 9 hours as we have extra stops at the bank ATM 's. Once a few homeless people 'move in' overnight, no one gets to use them. Ugh, tired of this. Our small town of 20,000 just had a Walmart employee test positive last week. Not surprising, since they probably got it from white trash shoppers that bring their 5 kids and gramma in without any sort of gloves or bandanna/mask on and 'git all up in yer face.' I definitely wouldn't shop there even if a gun was held to my head. I had to go in a couple days ago to the Wireless kiosk in the store to get some help with my new phone and even though I had a mask and gloves on, I had to reverse and zig zag to avoid the idiots who can't even figure out the directional arrows on the aisle floor and were quickly approaching me.
We've had two other cases test positive in town but that was from travel to Morocco.
It was a lovely 21C here today and for the first time in 8 weeks I got to sit outside in my lawn chair and have a lovely visit (without mask & gloves, even) 2 m away from Mom & Dad sitting together on a bench in their senior residence garden. We have not been able to visit AT ALL previous to this except via phone calls, and no one can enter the residence building but the staff and pharmacist still.
Definitely lots of dog walking going on, haha, reminded me of this joke on my FB feed. I have been bingewatching the UK show "Dogs Behaving Badly" and season 2 "Dogs Behaving Very Badly." Funny (and scary) stuff!

Yeah for Montana! Opening restaurants this week. Guess who’s going out to eat for Cinco de Mayo?

Wow! Catching a vole is quite a feat. 😁 would have been nice if they left it somewhere else. 🤪

What do you call a group of sick crows?

Corvid-19

poland_diana wrote: »

chsberthelot2934 wrote: »

3.5 more hours to go!

Lucky you Chase, I have 7 more hours to go. 😒😜

Hahaha sucks for you!! 😏😜

Yaaay for a 3 night workweek this week! A bit of a break finally. I had to do a training for patrol last week Thursday, which was a bit awkward as I kept my mask on and gloves on the whole shift since we couldn't really socially distance in a Ford Focus. When I got to the end of the night I was never so glad to rip that thing off my face! (Not the trainee co-worker Reed,... the mask )
Hope you guys are all holding steady.
Campgrounds start proper opening for overnighters June 1, but no out of province travel, in fact, it is suggested that we camp within our local area. Luckily tons of lakes and mountain trails to get to within a couple hours of our place, not that we'll be able to camp anytime soon. Too booked up and busy. Actually Covid-19 has made us richer, lol. We are so busy working, but have to place to go, no travel, no events or sports, no fancy dinners out or heading to the pub with friends, so no money is being spent.

I've been riding with a friend who got an E-Bike. It's been really nice. Before when we rode I could count on an easy ride but now I can push it so I get better and she is the one taking it easy.

WhooHoo! I have an appointment with my hairdresser on the 29th! I feel a bit like a sheepdog, but at least not like a Komondor, lol.

There are days I just want to run screaming. I had a relief vet in and she refuses to do records like I asked. Now I have clinics calling and complaining about the records. That just won't do. They are our lifeblood.

That was a long weekend in the ER. Between people letting their dogs eat stupid stuff to the dog fights between dogs that owners said, “He’s never done that before when they came to visit”, it was a busy busy weekend. And I found out one of the patients I thought I had turned around died Monday night. Not a good weekend. Maybe it’s time to switch careers to Homeless. There’s lots of programs for the homeless and there’s not near the pressure.

@sufferlandrian, it takes me two weeks to do 72 hours.... I do think you need to stick to weeknights. Sorry to hear about your Monday night (ex)patient.
BTW, ringlets/pre-dreads are now gone, I feel so much lighter and freer although hair is still curly.

Not that I don't like a chat with sufferlandrian, but where are all you others?
Missing your smiling (or not) avatars.

It’s been hell the last two nights. Off tonight. The other vet who just started working had been practicing shotgun medicine. You know, where you throw every test in the book at the pet and hope something shows up. The problem is since I’ve got the overnight shift she is leaving it to me to explain why she ran all the tests and I don’t have a good answer.

Is it possible to get a list of recent grads from vet colleges in the states surrounding, @sufferlandrian? Maybe a newer grad might be more amenable to your clinic's way of doing things.... just a thought. More advertising needs to be done by vet colleges since there appears to be a shortage. It would certainly be an interesting job and one could specialize in farm, small animal/pet, zoo.... depending on where one chose to live.

Hi @poland_diana hope you got the rest you needed.

Emergency work isn't for everyone. The demand for ER vets is so high and the number of people who find they can work the hours and deal with the high stress cases is pretty limited. A lot of new grads want to do emergency work but about the fourth week of putting down dogs for wonderful old ladies who just lost their husbands, they cave and quit. I had to come on once because the new grad was curled up on the couch in the fetal position crying and wouldn't come out of the office. She just put down a dog for a wonderful old gentleman. He mentioned during the euthanasia that this was his wife's dog and she died of cancer six months ago. Now the dog was dying of cancer and he was losing his last contact with his wife. This isn't a job for everyone. You have to care but be able to move on.

I think I might like going back to weeknights. I actually got a two hour nap last night it was so slow. I wish it had been in my bed instead of just falling asleep in my chair. However, I'll take what I can get.