Day 2

(I didn't get a chance to post this last night so I'm doing it today)

Day two was a little better, I felt a bit more comfortable and a bit more aware of what I could/should be doing. I still played shadow to people, and I'm sure I'm going to start to annoy people by constantly asking what needs to be done, if I can help, is there anything I can do, can I run that heartworm test, etc. Really though, I want to learn, and I want to try to learn as much as I can, even things that I haven't seen yet in school, like radiology or dentistry. I started filling a few perscriptions as well, which was interesting, but I yet to have a password for the computer so I have to ask someone to log in so I could print out a label.

I started wandering a bit on my own, such as going out and taking clients on my own and ranging around cleaning things, fixing up rooms, that sort of thing.

Some interesting things that happened:

-A very strange lady who walks her cat from the bus stop on a leash to the hospital, brings the doctor a baked potato sometimes, and is really chatty, came in with her cat. Her kitty horked up a gigantic grass hairball (from eating grass on his long walk from the bus stop, I assume), and I cleaned it up. Apparently, she was impressed with my puke-scooping skills, and was praising me to the receptionists. Everyone found this very funny and told me I was hired. I said that if all I needed to do to impress people was to clean up puke, my life is going to be easy!

-A tom kitty came in, having been out lost for a week with no vaccines, with bunches of scars, thin and dehydrated, covered in flea dirt and just plain dirt, and a nasty abscess on the side of his neck. Nice cat, but just a bit freaked out and in pain. I held him (since I was the one around that had my rabies, I'm really glad I got those!) for the exam and subsequent meds and vaccines, but I really liked him. They admitted him and decided to drain the abscess tomorrow.

Other than that it was a pretty good day, fairly routine it seems like, and I got to talk to more people and see more things. I don't feel like I'm really contributing a whole lot, which I understand since it's just my second day, but I hate feeling like I'm not a functional and skilled member of a place that I want to contribute to. Oh well, with time I'm sure!