Mercy! What a day in clinic! Two calls to the EMT's, and security had to stop a fight.

[Aristus]

Even before I got started today, I knew it was going to be a tough one: My very first patient wasn't even on the schedule. They brought him in in severe distress, complaining of chest pain. I followed all of the protocols instilled in me in school: oxygen, EKG, aspirin, and nitroglycerine, then call the paramedics.

Then about a half hour before lunch, a guy in the waiting room has a seizure. I got him turned on his side, and my assistant was taking vital signs, when the paramedics showed up. They laughed a bit when I said "No introductions necessary" - it was the same crew from a few hours earlier...

Finally, I'm finishing up my lunch, when a fight breaks out, right outside my office window. I had to sic security on them...

One more day, and then the weekend...

Hold me...

[sakabatou]

1. Hopefully, that guy who had a seizure

will have them under control in the future. Most of mine are.

[Aristus]

2. I've got him on an appropriate anti-seizure medication.

The issue is compliance. Some of my patients don't take their medications as prescribed.

[sakabatou]

9. I feel your pain (in a way)

[elleng]

3. Holding you!

Thought it was full moon today but NO, that was TUESDAY!!!

[Aristus]

5. Aw, thanks!...

[nolabear]

4. Do you believe in the full moon theory?

There's them as do, you know.

On edit, one of the best stories I get to tell begins "The time I got clawed by a mountain lion..." The time I got clawed by a mountain lion it took me for freaking EVER to be seen in the ER and they swore it was because it was a full moon. Of course, when I told them why I was there I got curiosity service and a tetanus shot and a bandage for the hole the little darling punched through my hand.

Short version: Wildlife rehab, feeding time, temporary cage that she could reach through and I didn't have a proper feeding door for, slow reflexes, OW!!! She was a good girl; she was just, you know, a mountain lion.

[Suich]

6. Blame it on a full moon!

When I was in the bar business, we did not look forward to the fulll moon, at all. Things used to get pretty nuts!

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. Have you never seen "Cat People" with Nastassja Kinski and Malcolm McDowell?

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Poor Ed Begly, Jr. and his ex-arm.
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[Aristus]

11. Nastassja Kinski, buck nekkid?

Wouldn't have missed it for the world!...

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. M-m-m-m-m... Nas-ti Kin-ski nekkid...

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... and catlike.
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[mysuzuki2]

7. Life in the veternary clinic?

[pacalo]

8. Never a dull moment is there, Aristus.

Hope the rest of the week isn't as stressful for you.

[Aristus]

12. Fridays can be a horror show. Fortunately, today went well.

Very well, in fact. It was steady today, but not crazy-busy. I finished the day feeling like I did good medicine. That's the only real standard I follow...

[pacalo]

14. I hope you have a good weekend, Aristus!