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Narrative Essay On Health And Social Care

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This week has been crazy busy. We have had all kinds of animals, with all kinds of issues. We've been so busy that our appointments have been back to back, with little time between. This kind of sucks for the patients since we only have two rooms, and usually one doctor on staff, but we are pretty efficient and everyone gets in and out in a timely manner. Of course with the priority being that everyone gets the treatment they need and their questions answered. This week had a lot of cool cases, one of which was my first real emergency case. There was once previous one, but it turned out to be less emergent and that's for another post. So, we got a call about an elderly dog who was bleeding profusely from the eye and no matter what the owners …show more content…

This was after we started to get some of the bleeding under control, but it ended up requiring a mini tourniquet of sorts to go around the mass because it just wouldn't stop bleeding. We were stuck between a rock and a hard place because Checkers' being such an old dog, had a much higher chance of dying during any surgery to remove this mass, which is why it wasn't removed before, but also the tourniquet wasn't a permanent fix, and if it started to bleed again checkers would most likely bleed to death. So what do you do? Well the owners elected to proceed with surgery, but with blood work first. The surgery was scheduled for the next day as long as the bloodwork came back fine. Well, nothing in life is ever one hundred percent planned, and sometimes life throws you, or in this case Checkers a curve ball. Her blood work came back as being anemic, and with signs of possible cushings. Not good. Surgery was postponed one week and we are hoping the new blood work in a week will be better and that the tourniquet made of sutures holds. On a happier not the Quaker Parrot I wrote about on my first blog post came back in today to have one of his sets of hobbles removed, except this time he didn't need a new pair. Here are some pictures of him and his brother, as you can see he has sure grown

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