Life as a Veterinary Technician
I love to interact with animals, whether it's playing with a puppy or scruffing a ferocious feral tomcat that's peeing down my leg and into my shoe. I don't mind expressing anal glands... there... I said it. Life as a veterinary technician presents unusual challenges and unique circumstances and also great fun. The people that I work with are my family. And like most families there is a fair amount of dysfunction. Take tonight for example...
I was with a fellow employee pulling a ninety pound Rottweiler out of someone's car. We get the beast in, but while we're carrying him in he has blowout diarrhea all down my leg and into my shoe. There was some jerk there telling me to "suck it up", whole every other step elicited a sloshing noise and a not-so-faint odor.
I sat around after that holding a dog with a bleeding nose. There goes my second pair of scrubs for the night.
For the encore, I was trying to quietly and gently take a blood pressure from a 6 pound fluffball and it tried to kill me. I then picked it up to put it back in the cage and, you guessed it, it peed down my leg and into my shoe.
I have been a veterinary nurse since 1997. I am currently enrolled in Penn Foster college taking classes to become a certified technician.
more to come...
I love to interact with animals, whether it's playing with a puppy or scruffing a ferocious feral tomcat that's peeing down my leg and into my shoe. I don't mind expressing anal glands... there... I said it. Life as a veterinary technician presents unusual challenges and unique circumstances and also great fun. The people that I work with are my family. And like most families there is a fair amount of dysfunction. Take tonight for example...
I was with a fellow employee pulling a ninety pound Rottweiler out of someone's car. We get the beast in, but while we're carrying him in he has blowout diarrhea all down my leg and into my shoe. There was some jerk there telling me to "suck it up", whole every other step elicited a sloshing noise and a not-so-faint odor.
I sat around after that holding a dog with a bleeding nose. There goes my second pair of scrubs for the night.
For the encore, I was trying to quietly and gently take a blood pressure from a 6 pound fluffball and it tried to kill me. I then picked it up to put it back in the cage and, you guessed it, it peed down my leg and into my shoe.
I have been a veterinary nurse since 1997. I am currently enrolled in Penn Foster college taking classes to become a certified technician.
more to come...
