Urine Trouble Now

Moppy came over this morning to watch Paxton for the day while Susanne was at work. She was becoming quite comfortable with Paxton's routine and his idiosyncrasies.

When Susanne arrived at work this morning, she was informed that there was eight veterinarians on the schedule with only three technicians available to assist. Susanne was a little apprehensive about how her day was going to play out because they were so understaffed. She was certain everyone would pull together as a team because they had been presented with this type of challenge before.

Susanne noticed how nice it was to have music playing in the treatment room area. One of the technicians had recently been setting up her phone in an ipod dock. It was set on Pandora where you could type in the title of a song and it would play music that was similar to that sound. It was amazing how just having music playing in the background could decrease the stress level instantaneously. Susanne was caught off guard when she heard the song "It's Alright" by Huey Lewis and The News. This was the very song that Scott was singing when Susanne fell in love with him the first time. He was part of a fraternity in college and one of the yearly events that they did was have a sing off between all of the fraternities on campus. They would sing an a cappella version of any song of their choice and compete against each other. Susanne knew the moment she heard Scott sing that she was in love. From that day on, their relationship started developing and they finally started dating a couple months later. Susanne had always loved hearing Scott sing and play his guitar. He continued to win her heart throughout the beginning of their relationship by writing a song for her. Also, they spent many of evenings sitting on their special bridge overlooking a lake singing together as he strummed his guitar. Scott even played his guitar and sang to Susanne on their wedding day. He was so talented.

Susanne quickly realized that she had continued to follow the trend of breezing through her morning appointments, but somehow attracting multiple critical patients in the afternoon. Susanne enjoyed the more challenging cases, but she wished that the order in which she saw them was different. One of her last appointments of the day was a male cat that was blocked. Basically, this meant that he could not urinate because there was an obstruction of some sort in his urethra. Most commonly this tended to be stones that were trying to pass. Susanne knew this was an emergency situation the minute that she palpated the cat's large, firm bladder. She was unsuccessful with trying to express his bladder so she knew that she would have to anesthetize the cat and pass a urinary catheter. Luckily, things went smoothly. It was amazing to see the difference in the cat's demeanor after the procedure was over. He was definitely relieved.

Another late night for Susanne, but the second she saw her baby's face things were all better.