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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3564 - Essel's Day with the Emergency Vet and Aftermath



A Sense of Doubt blog post #3564 - Essel's Day with the Emergency Vet and Aftermath

We had quite a day on Monday (this is now Wednesday when I am posting) as I took Essel to the "Emergency" vet (open 24 hours a day) after she tore off a nail, and it was looking infected. The doctor did not think it was infected, but we disagree.

I took here there believing that our vet was closed on Mondays as they always have been, except that they changed the policy and are now open, though under-staffed.

I had taken Ellory there in a rare PACNW blizzard in 2021: 

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

No blizzard this time, and it even stopped raining for our trek.

Essel was trembling rapidly when we fist got in the car, and I held her on my lap almost all the way to the vet -- Columbia River Vet. She was trembling in the lobby of the ER but eventually calmed down as shown below.

She got an antiseptic/antibiotic spray and some pain killers.

We tried various smaller cones and even a baby sock on her paw, but ultimately had to go to the big cone, though by the day I am actually writing this (Friday) we took it off.

She hates everything: the cone, the spray, the wound. Though the pain drugs make her sleepy.

After the vet, we went to Petco, where she got treats!

She's almost all better; she's a very quick healer.

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Note on photo above: I was trying to grade papers, so that's the lap desk I brought because I am smart like that. Essel had to be WITH me.


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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2411.20 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3428 days ago & DAD = 084 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

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