When 24 hours lasts for years...
You know how sometimes you just wanna choke a...
No, wait.
You know how sometimes a day can feel like a year? Yeah, I feel like it's been almost 3 years since I saw my beloved daughter. Yeah. And every minute of those 3 years was spend at Banfield. Yeah. I've got the bruises to prove it.
Wait, that doesn't make sense...
Oh well. Anyway, I *do* have the bruises. And it really does feel like it's been over a week since I last saw Devin o_O. She left right before I had belly dance :(. Class itself kicked ASS. We had 2 of the girls from 2 weeks ago come again, so there were a total of 5 students! It's like a real class now!! ;) We kicked booty and the follow-the-leader dance part was SO fun. We busted it out to Sexy Back, yo ;).
Wed was nightmare-ish. I'm not sure what crawled up Dr. Dan's butt and died there, but she was beyond insufferable. Which was sad... I try really hard to give her the benefit of the doubt cause I know she's a new vet and has a lot of responsibility and freaks when she gets more stressed, but srsly. Wed was just... uncalled for. BAD. She is very lucky no choking occured. We had some big wigs from upper corporate coming to visit the hospital and we cleaned our ASSES off. And by "we" I mean the nurses and CSCs, btw. She not only didn't help, but actually hindered at points. We only had like 2 afternoon appts TOTAL, which is nuts in and of itself btw, but anyway we were still there a hour and 15 minutes after closing cleaning that place. It was sparkling.
Yesterday was... better. Dr. Anda was there too and that helps. Dr. Dan was easier to handle too. So the Big Wigs show up while Dr. Anda's on a phone conferance so they had to wait, so they left. They came back and had their meeting in room 4... then left. They never set one foot in the hospital proper!! o_O Yeah. But, you know, if we hadn't cleaned they would have been all over, so yeah :P. But there was all that work and then all that stress for what felt like "nothing", which was really draining. The day itself was ok, but we were till there till 8pm wrapping up at the end of the night.
Today was... rough. REALLY rough. I'm the former ER vet tech, right, so everyone knows that while I'm not up to par with Jenne (the head nurse) as far as my skills or knowledge, that I AM used to handling sick pets and weird cases. So the diabetic or the vomiting or the urinary tract infections often get passed my way, you know, whatever. Which is ok, it ups my production since they usually need more expensive diagnostics and meds, and I *do* know what I'm doing so I get to be all competant and knowledgable, hehe. So, today, as soon as I walk in the door Dr. Dan pounces on me and it all like, you HAVE to be the nurse on my diabetic kitty glucose curve. OK, no big, been there, done that. It's an all day thing but she doesn't need constant attention. We're going down the drop offs list and I get the nasty Shar Pei (as in gross, not mean). I think "Shar Pei" should be a disease diagnosis -_-. Anyway, after all of HER crap we go down the list and I have to have the really mean cat with a urinary tract infection (UTI). I'm the best tech to actually be able to HANDLE the beast, heh. THEN while I'm working with the beastie a sick hamster comes in and, again, *I* am the one who knows how to handle and medicate hamsters, not to mention the sick part...
I can't even fully remember right now how I juggled the last few... I think we finished with the beastie's sedation to get urine before I had to handle the hamster. THEN I had to release the diabetic, the UTI AND the hamster all at the same time. Yeah. Fun times!! I did have 1 healthy pet, in the AM... AND, to add to the chaos, while I was wrapped up with both the urine and the hamster a really sick 18-year-old kitty came in. Naushad, also very experienced, went in with her, and it looked BAD so they wanted rads to confirm the fluid-filled lungs. They didn't even really retrain for fear of killing her during the rads, but they got a shot and developed it and, yup, there was only like a quarter-sized piece of lung left, very bad. So, while they're going over the x-ray Naushad was just gently holding the kitty and reached in front of her to get a pen. Yup, she just struck out and bit him. Yup, she was NOT up to date on her rabies vxn. *sigh* SO, now not only do we need to euth cause she might not even survive the ride home, NOW we also have to submit a rabies tissue sample to Cook County. Rabies resides in the brain. Yeah...
So after all that nutty chaos we had to clean, so I didn't get home tonight till like 9pm (we close at 7pm). I did get Devin, but I didn't even get to enjoy her, it was all nom-nom, then bed. At least thankfully she did go down quick and smooth and it sounds like she is SO out. I'm glad she's sleeping well. And I'm just so glad to be home I could spit, AND I can't even tell you how glad I am that I'm NOT working tomorrow o_O.
And, to top it all off, I talked to my dad today during lunch and found out Grampy, his dad, is in the hospital. He had a gallbladder surgery, to remove it, but from what I understand from what Dad said, they found an abscess and had to resect his intestines to remove it, and now his body has had allergic reactions to all of the pain meds so far, so he's "not out of the woods yet" and has to stay hospitalized for a while. It's touch and go and I'm scared. I love him so much and I'm worried and now I'm actually trying to think of a way to get out to NYC sometime soon with baby. I didn't get to see Carlos again, I'm not ready to lose Grampy now too... Happy thoughts and prayers and healing energies are much appreciated, btw. For all of us really... Thanks muchly.
*sigh* So, yeah... that is the story of the 3 day week that lasted 3 years, and the stresses behind those feelings. I'm just SO wiped out now. Blah. BLAH!!
No, wait.
You know how sometimes a day can feel like a year? Yeah, I feel like it's been almost 3 years since I saw my beloved daughter. Yeah. And every minute of those 3 years was spend at Banfield. Yeah. I've got the bruises to prove it.
Wait, that doesn't make sense...
Oh well. Anyway, I *do* have the bruises. And it really does feel like it's been over a week since I last saw Devin o_O. She left right before I had belly dance :(. Class itself kicked ASS. We had 2 of the girls from 2 weeks ago come again, so there were a total of 5 students! It's like a real class now!! ;) We kicked booty and the follow-the-leader dance part was SO fun. We busted it out to Sexy Back, yo ;).
Wed was nightmare-ish. I'm not sure what crawled up Dr. Dan's butt and died there, but she was beyond insufferable. Which was sad... I try really hard to give her the benefit of the doubt cause I know she's a new vet and has a lot of responsibility and freaks when she gets more stressed, but srsly. Wed was just... uncalled for. BAD. She is very lucky no choking occured. We had some big wigs from upper corporate coming to visit the hospital and we cleaned our ASSES off. And by "we" I mean the nurses and CSCs, btw. She not only didn't help, but actually hindered at points. We only had like 2 afternoon appts TOTAL, which is nuts in and of itself btw, but anyway we were still there a hour and 15 minutes after closing cleaning that place. It was sparkling.
Yesterday was... better. Dr. Anda was there too and that helps. Dr. Dan was easier to handle too. So the Big Wigs show up while Dr. Anda's on a phone conferance so they had to wait, so they left. They came back and had their meeting in room 4... then left. They never set one foot in the hospital proper!! o_O Yeah. But, you know, if we hadn't cleaned they would have been all over, so yeah :P. But there was all that work and then all that stress for what felt like "nothing", which was really draining. The day itself was ok, but we were till there till 8pm wrapping up at the end of the night.
Today was... rough. REALLY rough. I'm the former ER vet tech, right, so everyone knows that while I'm not up to par with Jenne (the head nurse) as far as my skills or knowledge, that I AM used to handling sick pets and weird cases. So the diabetic or the vomiting or the urinary tract infections often get passed my way, you know, whatever. Which is ok, it ups my production since they usually need more expensive diagnostics and meds, and I *do* know what I'm doing so I get to be all competant and knowledgable, hehe. So, today, as soon as I walk in the door Dr. Dan pounces on me and it all like, you HAVE to be the nurse on my diabetic kitty glucose curve. OK, no big, been there, done that. It's an all day thing but she doesn't need constant attention. We're going down the drop offs list and I get the nasty Shar Pei (as in gross, not mean). I think "Shar Pei" should be a disease diagnosis -_-. Anyway, after all of HER crap we go down the list and I have to have the really mean cat with a urinary tract infection (UTI). I'm the best tech to actually be able to HANDLE the beast, heh. THEN while I'm working with the beastie a sick hamster comes in and, again, *I* am the one who knows how to handle and medicate hamsters, not to mention the sick part...
I can't even fully remember right now how I juggled the last few... I think we finished with the beastie's sedation to get urine before I had to handle the hamster. THEN I had to release the diabetic, the UTI AND the hamster all at the same time. Yeah. Fun times!! I did have 1 healthy pet, in the AM... AND, to add to the chaos, while I was wrapped up with both the urine and the hamster a really sick 18-year-old kitty came in. Naushad, also very experienced, went in with her, and it looked BAD so they wanted rads to confirm the fluid-filled lungs. They didn't even really retrain for fear of killing her during the rads, but they got a shot and developed it and, yup, there was only like a quarter-sized piece of lung left, very bad. So, while they're going over the x-ray Naushad was just gently holding the kitty and reached in front of her to get a pen. Yup, she just struck out and bit him. Yup, she was NOT up to date on her rabies vxn. *sigh* SO, now not only do we need to euth cause she might not even survive the ride home, NOW we also have to submit a rabies tissue sample to Cook County. Rabies resides in the brain. Yeah...
So after all that nutty chaos we had to clean, so I didn't get home tonight till like 9pm (we close at 7pm). I did get Devin, but I didn't even get to enjoy her, it was all nom-nom, then bed. At least thankfully she did go down quick and smooth and it sounds like she is SO out. I'm glad she's sleeping well. And I'm just so glad to be home I could spit, AND I can't even tell you how glad I am that I'm NOT working tomorrow o_O.
And, to top it all off, I talked to my dad today during lunch and found out Grampy, his dad, is in the hospital. He had a gallbladder surgery, to remove it, but from what I understand from what Dad said, they found an abscess and had to resect his intestines to remove it, and now his body has had allergic reactions to all of the pain meds so far, so he's "not out of the woods yet" and has to stay hospitalized for a while. It's touch and go and I'm scared. I love him so much and I'm worried and now I'm actually trying to think of a way to get out to NYC sometime soon with baby. I didn't get to see Carlos again, I'm not ready to lose Grampy now too... Happy thoughts and prayers and healing energies are much appreciated, btw. For all of us really... Thanks muchly.
*sigh* So, yeah... that is the story of the 3 day week that lasted 3 years, and the stresses behind those feelings. I'm just SO wiped out now. Blah. BLAH!!