My heart's a stereo, turn to me when you feel lost.
Can't get this song out of my head. My coworker listens to it all the time and now it's stuck on me. Not that it's a bad thing. I quite enjoy it.
Today work was rather unpleasant. We started it off with a euth, and the guy wasn't very nice about it, not that it's particularly easy to be pleasant when your cat is being put to sleep. But that aside, he was an uncomfortable person to be around, and I spent a lot of time wondering what to say to him. He was a very cold, confused individual. Then, an emergency dog that came in ended up dying, which was tragic. Her owner pulled out all the stops over the past six months to try and make her feel better, but nothing seemed to work for very long. Eventually, she started having to keep coming in every couple of weeks. This last time (before she came in yesterday), she'd only been at home for ten days in between. It's really very sad. Yesterday she came in for incontinence, bleeding from the vulva, and a swollen muzzle. We put her on fluids, did blood tests, a urinalysis, prescribed her medication, etc, etc. Covered all the bases. But, this morning, she was worse than yesterday, and we started noticing that she was straight up bleeding from her vulva, not just bleeding into her urine. Her muzzle was more swollen. We ok'd xrays with her owners and discovered she was hemorraging from her vulva up to her chest - which was causing the swelling in her nose (it was more hemoragging). Again, the owners were contacted and as a last resort, the attending dr suggested sending her off to Vancouver Emergency for 24 hour fluids and observation. The owners discussed her options and decided that rather than have her suffer without them being with her, to put her out of her misery. She was euthanized as well, and my coworker and I sat up front behind the desk while the mrs tries to catch her breath in her grief behind the scenes. It's incredibly painful to hear someone expressing so much anguish and knowing that we couldn't do anything to stop her from feeling this way. Of course she apologized for her outburst, and her hysteria. And of course, we told her it's perfectly understandable, and consoled her as best we could. It's difficult, in a professional setting, to reach out to someone while trying to maintain the fact that this is a business, and it happens virtually every day.
Anyway, after that I went home for a little bit and then we all went downtown so I could get some more christmas shopping done. I still have some left to do, but Christmas is four weeks and two more paychecks away, so I'm not too worried at this point. I still have lots of time. I just hope that my family will appreciate the gesture - this will be the first time I'll have money of my own (really) to spend on members of my family, my roommate, and my roommate's family.
That's it for today. Yeesh. I'm tired of writing.
