Yesterday-Lots of appointments. Just kind of a normal day. There were lots of vaccinations, including rabies, lepto, flu, and others. We had quite a bit of unwilling patients so it was my job to hold and distract them while they got their shots.
Today-Surgery day! And thankfully, I didn’t pass out this time. We had four patients today: Pixel-Spay, two patients had Dental, and Mittens-Declaw. We started with Pixel, who was the hardest one, because she was a fighter. She didn’t want to come out of her kennel, first of all, and she was even harder to sedate, so we had to put her in a cat box and distribute the anesthesia in the box. When we thought she was asleep, we took her out and it appeared that she was pretending because she shot right up after we took her out. We had to put her back in the box three times to get her to sleep. After she finally fell asleep, everything went smoothly. Everyone felt very bad for Mittens because of the declawing. They try to talk the owners out of declawing cats because it’s basically like amputating part of their fingers. That went smoothly though, but after the cat woke up, she shook off her bandages every time, so we just let her be. To avoid possible fainting, I skipped the two dentals, and spent the rest of my time with the recovering animals. I made sure they didn’t vomit while their tube was still in, then after their tube was taken out, I made sure that they were breathing right. Mittens and Pixel were fine, but Maggie wasn’t after she got out of surgery. Maggie is a pug, who have breathing troubles in general, but after they took the tube out, she couldn’t breathe. Dr. Leonard put another tube back in and hooked up a monitor so we could watch her and make sure she’s breathing normally as she came out of the anesthesia.
Sounds familiar! I miss being in a clinic. We used to use a “kitty cocktail” of sedatives for extra upset patients, but sometimes they’d just randomly spring back to consciousness for a while to scratch people.