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Name: zimaleah501
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Metro: Lancaster
Birthday: 4/20/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: I like sleeping, and not doing work. Oh, my pets and friends are cool to hang out with whenever I am not sleeping or doing work. I like reading and watching one of my million movies.
Expertise: I'm in college. I don't think I am supposed to have expertise yet. But I do teach horseback riding lessons now so I hope I know something about it! ;-)
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  Zimaleah501
Member Since:
3/23/2004
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| Backstory: Upon noticing their neighbor's house was on fire, two teenage kids broke inside to rescue a litter of 10 pitbull puppies. Said puppies were brought to where I work as the house proceeded to burn to the ground, with momma and papa doggie trapped inside.
The puppies arrive, work comes to a grinding halt to triage them. Ones with only a few burns and healthy suckling reflexes get put into the oxygen incubator while the others are examined more closely. After determining only one to be in real danger, the others are given numbers (written on tape taped around a leg), antibiotic shots, burn cream is applied, the soot is wiped off, they are fed, and their temps/heart rates/respiration rates are recorded. It takes literally 6 people two hours to organize all of this.
I was responsible for Five. Five was the one who wasn't doing very well. Her color was practically nonexistent (she was tan colored in her gums, as opposed to bright pink) and she was barely breathing, her breaths were cries of pain. I sat with her, stimulating her to breathe and move and stay alive while hooked up to a personal oxygen mask for 3 hours. About hour 2.5, she started breathing much more slowly. We intubated, the doctor tried to bring her out of it, but she was gone. I was warned that she almost certainly wouldn't make it, so I wasn't too upset, just drained. Oddly enough, it is one of my favorite things to spend hours sitting with an animal destined to die. Comfort caring is my job, after all.
Midway through all of this, we found out that the daddy dog did in fact survive the blaze - he had somehow broken a second story window (or it broke some other way), jumped onto the porch roof, and then to the ground and ran away. The firefighters found him, walking all on his own. His poor balls were scorched almost completely off, one leg was badly burned, and the pad on the foot of that burned leg was falling off from jumping from a two story window. When I left he was still being worked on, but obviously happy to see his babies were alright.
All in all, not a horrible day. 10 saves out of 12 (assuming none took a turn for the worse since I left) in a house that burnt to the ground when no one was home. RIP Puppy No. Five, I'll always remember you! | | |
| Today was Embody the Stereotype day! All the pitbulls were truly vicious, as well as the rotties. All the collies were ditzy, and the cats all had short fuses. Here are the highlights.
I nearly got bitten in the face by a German Shepherd. The dog's head was being held by the owner so I went to encourage her to stand so we could temp her and she freaked out at me, snarling 2 inches from my face. The owner was pale and apologized. Apparently he had never seen the dog behave this way. The owner tried to muzzle the dog and the dog growled at him too - which is rare. In the end, the owner was too scared, so we sent them home with some happy pills to give before they come next time. All this for some damn vaccines.
Then they had to knock down and neuter a vicious pitbull this morning 4 hours ahead of schedule because NO ONE can even touch it, let alone check and examine it. The pitbull was brought in by a completely trashed woman who obviously ignored our orders to not feed the dog that morning, because the dog began to vomit the minute he was unconscious, which is really dangerous even with the tube keeping the airway clear. The dog vomited before and after the surgery and it turns out a fair amount of it got into the tube (which is a risk because the tubes don't fit the dogs' throats exactly) which means the dog almost certainly aspirated it into his lungs. Now they are worried about aspiration pnemonia. They gave antibiotics, but its still a huge risk now.
There was a rottie who was pregnant and tried to bite anyone who touched her. In the end, complete sedation and 3 assistants were needed just to determine that the dog wasn't pregnant at all, but she does have something very wrong in her abdomen.
Then there was a cat who was fine for awhile then went PSYCHO and would try to kill you. Throughout the afternoon she scratched 5 people, bit two more, and escaped from grasp 17 times.
What a day. | | |
| I spend the first 15 minutes of every weekday morning truly despising life. | | |
| Hope everyone had spectacular food comas today! Mine was a pancake coma, and it was great!
Time to try not to focus on having to wake up to go to work tomorrow, or that I also have to work on Saturday to make up for not being paid today. (my 3 month trial period at work ended TOMORROW, so I didn't qualify to get holiday pay for Thanksgiving. The world hates me.)
Instead, I will focus on having the house to myself through Sunday (an occasional vacation from people is recouperating, plus I can get more done). Also, I will look forward to dinner with my parents on Saturday (crossing fingers for Cheesecake Factory), as well as Sunday lunch with BeccaB! | | |
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