I've been so busy working and dealing with reality that I haven't had much time for SG :( the mobile version doesn't like to work on my really old phone so I don't get to comment on things, only check my notifications. Work has been stupid, like really stressful. We hospitalized a doctor's 3 year old pitbull who was sick with an unknown illness, we performed an exploratory surgery on her to see if we could find out what was wrong. I was the surgery technician. Well, we ended up putting her to sleep on the surgery table. I was so sad to have lost her, she was such a great dog, and a great example of the bully breed. She wouldn't harm a fly, she was so sweet. She started out as a dump (abandoned) at my clinic, which the doctor took her home and has had her since. She was devastated that she had to euthanize her 3 year old dog. I cried too, I don't like losing patients (no one does).
Then, Thursday we had a sick dog come in, 4 years old, with an injury to her leg. She was bitten by another animal and the wound was at least 1 week old, but they only noticed it "2 days ago". We sedated her to make her more comfortable while we clipped and cleaned her wounds. She had severe cellulitis (inflammation) because of the infection. She was just not well at all. Her owners were very upset with us because she was declining quickly. We offered to keep her overnight on IV fluids to see if it would help. She passed away during the night. The owner was upset, which is understandable, but he came into my clinic drunk and belligerent, yelling that he was going to tear the clinic up and call his people. The police had to get involved. It was messy, and stressful. PS, the dog passed away most likely from septicemia (systemic infection from the wounds).
It's just been a bad week for me, so instead of projecting my negativity on social media, I just kind of stayed away from it. I hope I can put everything that happened behind me and have happier more positive things replace it.
