Ok so its no secret that I am working at an Emergency Vet in the ICU as a Vet Tech Assistant...i love and hate the jobs .. its much different from the film industry but somewhat more interesting to me... but with all jobs come good and bad...I have to tell you what happened .. im all wound up and cant sleep .. i went for a bike ride and all and nothing worked... tomorrow i am gonna buy a journal and write it in every night to vent about the crazy nights I have!!
First off I am sort of mad that for the second day in a row i am the only vet tech assistant in the ICU .. no correction in the entire facility on my shift.. ugh .. they wanna cut back on people and save an extra 15.00 but i can not do it alone its to much work and to much of a responsibility i dont want and I will tel you why when i tell you what happened and how careless some TECHS are .. after i state tomorrow I am gonna ask for more money , or one more person to help , or i am gonna give my two weeks because you need two people from at least 7pm - midnight for sure its toooo much !!!
Ok so first off one of my jobs is to walk the dogs ... its all good but it takes time to cap all the fluids and blah blah blah its not just take them out of the cage and walk them no its more than that and sometimes dogs need slings and big dogs need two people omg its crazy sometimes but ok so one of my jobs is to do that.. ok so i had like 15 dogs to walk so i start around 9pm at one end of the ICU to another ... after about the 8th dog I passed this one old dog bc this pup nest to him looked like it needed to pee so i tell the older "ill be back right back for you" ... No lie im walking into the ICU and notice the dog up against the cage i walk closer and and say ... ummm i dont think this dog is breathing ... the doctor yelled wtf....came over started CPR and all that jazz on the dog ... the entire time the doc kept saying good call chrissie good eyes good watching over the animals .. i said she was just breathing it just happened ... omg no lie in a matter of seconds this dog was dead... we did everything we could to help this dog but nothing worked we lost the dog ... now ask me why we lost the dog ... because we were so busy no one had time to put this dog on fluids or give it the blood it needed. Yes it came in for a blood transfusion ... So it was our fault and why was it our fault because they decided to cut the staff including the other assistant who should be working with me!!
My night still hasnt ended ... so im in the back getting some things for the ICU when I get a call over the PA Assistant with a gurney needed STAT ... i haul ass up front with a gurney to find a huge dog having trouble breathing ...the owners are an older lady and a boy who was my age...the dog had a narrow throat and well it ate the other dogs dry food and the food blocked its airway... ok so after 2 hrs if suction and other gross shit we got all the food out and we save this dogs life. All turned out ok for that family and of course they wanted to see the dog so the doc brought them into the ICU and the boy said hi to the dog and turned to all of us in the ICU thanking us for our help...then he looked at me and the VET TECH who went out to get the dog and said
"because of you guys you saved her life .. you save animals... you give them those second chances they sometimes need ... you dont just save animals you save lives ... that is a thank you all in itself ..."
OMG I was like omg this dude is sooo right .. i never thought of it that way ... so we lost a life because we were careless but saved another because its our job... its a win lose situation here! Some techs are mean to the animals ... I have a gentle hand ... some yell at the i pet them and talk to them ... some dont care to change the bedding if they weeeeweeeee but i will! ... they say its because i am new and they have been doing this for years ... i say its because i would want someone to give my animal the same treatment they would want to get if it were them.
I dont know I guess what that kid said just touched me because this dog was not only a dog to him it was a family member. For the first time I let my emotions take over and get the best of me bagging the dead dog but also making sure the one we saved was comfortable .... Its moments like these that make me love this job .. but its moments of losing an animal or a careless owner or careless tech that makes me HATE this job!
Either way I just cant win!!!!!
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