Useless nurses

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Jo Mackenzie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:04:08 GMT

Nope, I'm a bad mummy cause I let the students take blood from my Gypsy when she needs ACTH stims and stuff - she's like a pin cushion for them!!!

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Lisa Whitehouse — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:30:17 GMT

i'm not usually too bad ifs its my old boy i get a little paranoid but leave them in capable hands & dont always have to be about when under ga etc.

Does that make me a bad mommy??

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loopylou711 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:59:08 GMT

My niamhs not well not eaten properly in about 3 -5 days, so vets tommorow for us, gives me a reaosn to skive uni

I have convinced myself its some horrible disease and that she will need lots of treatment and doubt i will sleep because of worrying! Ahhh I bet its just a sore tummy and i will be sent home looking rather silly!! heres hoping i hate the idea of my baby girl being ill!!

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christinam — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:53:35 GMT

I'm glad your all as stupid as me!!!

Pets , who'd have 'em, Oh yeh us!!!

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loobylou — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:16:16 GMT

I thought my dog was ill today cos he didnt bark at the delivery man at work who he hates

He was obviously feeling better later when the body man came

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les punton — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:59:53 GMT

oh gosh we are all like this!

kya fell at the beach a couple of months ago 2/10 lame and aft some rimadyl wasnt any better id convinced myself she had a sarcoma and we was going to chop off her leg!

8yo bull mastiff.........................arthritic!

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christinam — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:51:19 GMT

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HaHa! is that you Christina? (recognised the pooch in your pic)

Im just the same with my new dog, she comes into work with me as im on nights this week, she was quiet last night so obviously she had picked up something from work, no clinical signs at all!! but there is a dog with lepto in.....regardless to the fact Cocoa is vaccinated and im barrier nursing!

We are crazy arnt we, She is fine after her long walk and swim, probably just tired after a busy night (like her mother)!

Donna x x

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T'is me and Millie. Hello you

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Vicky RVN — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:35:47 GMT

I am a stupidly paranoid owner who's logic and nursing knowledge goes flying straight out of the window when it's my own animals! Hobbits will agree...i phoned her at vetsnow a couple of weeks ago because Daisy (guinea pig) was having a nose bleed! I was such a panicking owner

I do my own animals GA's. I would trust people at work to do them, but i know i'd float around being a pest so i may as well just do it myself and keep myself busy rather than getting in the way!

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Kim Buckley — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:22:07 GMT

I'm fine with mine. I've always been the one doing monitoring the GA's and taking the bloods and so on. However if I wasn't there then yes I would be a nervous wreck!

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Deemus — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:16:56 GMT

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I arrived back from work one night to find Jack (my staffiex) making the most horrendous noise. It wasn't a true cough, more of a heavy inspiration with a fair amount of air wobbling its way down his trachea.

Rang work to tell them I was on my way back (I'd never driven from Coventry to Birmingham faster!) All the time I had visions of a FB, collapsing trachea (would I put him through a tie back?!?) To a tumour I didn't know was there.

Burst through the door back at work and pounced on the first vet I saw. His face said it all (I knew it was bad) shortly before he wet himself laughing. His diagnosis? Kennel cough! I had never been more relived in my life and conceded that yes, I probably was a little bit paranoid. I took it a bit slower on the way home!

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Donna France — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:43:13 GMT

HaHa! is that you Christina? (recognised the pooch in your pic)

We are crazy arnt we, She is fine after her long walk and swim, probably just tired after a busy night (like her mother)!

Donna x x

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Mac Feather — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:20:46 GMT

I know Im utterly ridiculous when it comes to my own animals- I can see myself/hear myself turning into psycho owner and theres nothing I can do to stop it.

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Kirstie Sherman — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:42:01 GMT

Me too! My kitten was castrated a couple of weeks ago and I was a nervous wreck all day!! I'm a terrible worried owner.

Its just so different when its your pet.....I know it shouldnt be and we should treat each patient as if it were our own. A good lesson in client empathy I think to put ourselves in their shoes

Kirstie x

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albatross — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:42:01 GMT

me too, when Kidu (who has a very mild heart murmur) went in to be spayed in June, I was pacing up and down all morning.
I couldn't take her to the low income clinic where I work as we didn't have heart monitoring (and although I'd just got confirmation of my first student nurse positon I felt it unfair to transport her 160 miles just so I could keep an eye on her during the op), so she had to go to the vet I've used for 19 years - and therefore couldn't assist (although I'd probably be banned from theatre if I had been there!).

I think it's because we have the knowledge of when occasionally simple issues develop into serious conditions, and so like when a layperson reads a medical textbook and then assumes their twinges are terminal conditions, we assume the worst for our pets.

Glad to see others are the same, shows we're all human and just born worriers when it comes to our beloved pets.

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Nicola Smith — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:40:47 GMT

Me too, I start looking things up that I know, and asking the vet questions I know the answer to. I always imagine the worst possible and end up convincing myself they are dying - and suffer horrific stress most of the time for nothing!!!

Glad its not just me!!

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Jo Mackenzie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:20:18 GMT

I do this too - my dog's drinking and peeing a bit more than usual and suddenly I'm convinced she's going into kidney failure, and forget that it may just be that her cushings medication needs a tweak. My cat is always crying for food and I worry about all the possible medical reasons and then realise the kitten is stealing from her bowl so she's just hungry lol.

It's cause we know what symptoms could be and go to that first rather than working logically through the other, more likely possibilities.