My life until June 15 th

I hate studying!!!!
so I decided to procrastinate and write in my blog instead of "hit the books" like I should be doing. Right now (well not at this moment) I am trying to prepare myself for both the state and national boards to be come a C.V.T. (certified vet tech) and i am realizing now that I should have started studying long long ago. But I didn't so I am left doing what anyone would do in my situation, I am going to cram, cram like no one else has ever crammed before. By this I mean study all you sickos need to get your mind out of the gutter.

So if anyone wants to go and sit at a coffee shop let me know I won't be much company my nose will be in a book but I'll be there!!

P.M.A.

What is P.M.A you might be asking yourself??? P.M.A. Is remembering to have a Positive Mental Attitude!! This is some thing that my mom always use to say to herself while she was getting her Chemotherapy treatments. And to this day when I am feeling really stressed out about things I remember my mom sitting there bald headed and telling me that I had to remember to keep the P.M.A alive.

Where I work we put in 10 - 12 hour days and we are working really hard the entire time. Sometimes we all get stressed and tired but there are some of my co-workers that have lost the P.M.A. and it is getting really old to hear them all bitch and complain every day. We are all tired we all have missed a lunch or 2 but unfortunately the sick pets can't wait.

When people get frustrated I try and bring up the point that, I wouldn't want to have to go to an emergency clinic and I would hope that my vet would do the same. They just kind of ignore it.

I still love my job. I work for an amazing person who treats her entire staff with kindness, but I am really getting fed up with some of my co-workers. It is starting to rub off on me. The reason I put in these long hours is because I love what I do, but right now its getting hard to go to work with a smile, not because we are slammed or because I know I might not get a lunch, but its the fact that I know that my co-workers are going to be in a negative pissed off mood all day long.

So the next time you think that life sucks look for a little perspective. A person who was bald headed was able to smile and remind me (a person with my health, a roof over my head, and people that love me) to keep the P.M.A. alive. Do yourself a favor take just a second right now, stop what ever you are doing take a deep breath in and smile.

: )

Dr. Kevorkian

The little dog that I talked about in the previous post was put to sleep because the new owners felt that she wasn't improving quick enough. When I heard that today I broke down. It was amazing to see how far that little dog came in such a short amount of time. The owners brought her back to us and we told them it was going to take some time for her to get better, but the next day they took her to emergency and they preformed the euthanasia there. Even though i didn't know her long I know Baby is one that I will never forget.

I don't understand how a person could spend months trying to catch the dog, take the time to take it to the vet to have it checked out and then give up on it after a week. I guess they did what they felt was best for Baby and I shouldn't ever judge someone for making the decision for letting their pet go peacefully. I guess that i am just really sad about the whole because like I said Baby was one of the ones that truly did touch my heart.

Its when things like this happen that my job becomes more difficult. I don't want to say that there is ever an easy euthanasia but sometimes (even when I have known the dogs for years) its almost comforting to see a pet finally at rest. I guess that's why I really don't see the problem with Dr. Kevorkian sometimes life is just too painful. I do feel great full that I work in a field where we have euthanasia as an option.

Well this was a happy post but it was what was on my mind.