It's been awhile...

I forgot that I started this blog until I subscribed to another one and went to my homepage. I can't believe it's been almost two years since the first post.
A lot of things have happened in the last two years. The economy has definitely impacted my personal and professional life. My daughter is now 16 and planning to graduate from high school in June, 2013 and will start the college application process in November. She is such a dear friend and companion that I don't even want to imagine daily life without her around all the time.
We have a lot of cats living with us in our home. They are all Scottish Folds, straight ear girls and folded ear boys. Currently we have about twelve kittens in our nursery between the ages of 8 and 16 weeks. It is so much fun to watch them playing and racing around. The cats are such a large part of our lives it's hard to imagine life without them.
At the clinic we have a fabulous staff of seven wonderful women ranging in age from 23-63. We are a very efficient team and have a really good time together. We have a small veterinary clinic in a town of 125 people but draw our patients from a wide area since we do integrative veterinary medicine, acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine. Oops have to run to see a patient. More later.

first post

I am not sure many people will be interested in what happens during a day in my life so we will see.  I am a small animal veterinarian with a special interest in Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine (TCVM).  i have been a veterinarian for 27 years and I still get excited about interacting with my patients and their caretakers.  I remember hearing many times from one of my best teachers, Rena Ferreira, that her best teachers were her patients and that is very true. I have been doing this for so long that I am often unaware of what I am observing from the animals.  There is such an unconscious communication between us that the times I am most tuned in is when an animal is scared or aggressive.  Yesterday we had three dogs in the clinic that were really scared and wanted to bite us to protect themselves.  One was in to have a large fatty tumor removed from his chest, one just needed a toe nail trim and the last one was ill from renal insufficiency.