Pop Eye

Cleaning the vet clinic consists of: every day, sweep the floors and dust off the surgery/exam table. to clean up pee, sprinkle sawdust on top and sweep it up. the end. but on mondays, fill a bucket with water and disinfectant and reuse this very dirty water to scrub the floors and make them cleaner, or attempt to. then take petroleum and coat the floors with it for a final coat of cleaning, and hope that no one decides to light a match. interesting.
the first dog that came in this morning had one of his eyes popping out of his face. knocked him out and tried to stuff his eye back in but they werent using enough anesthesia so he didnt like it too much, to say the least. gave more anesthesia, cleaned off the eye, which was completely out of its socket and oozing pus, beautiful, and then pushed it back in. they sutured it up a bit and used two cut up pieces of plastic tubing to hold it shut. in five days, they will take that out and see if they can save the eye. was a really interesting procedure, ive never seen anyhing like that because they always send eye cases to specialists.
the other case for the day was a dog with a huge bloody pussy abcess on his neck. he seriouly did not want to be aslèep and we had to keep putting more and more anesthesia and pìnning him down while they were cleaning it off. not a happy dog. thery flushed out the absess and put a ton of ampìcillin into the wound, which i hadnt seen before. sutured in a drain and theyll check on it in a couple days. all the owners are so clueless about their dogs... this is something yucky but pretty fixable and the owner was really freaked out and asked me if pisco (the dog, also thew name of the wine here) wquld die. nope, this one has plenty of fight left in him. after the proceudre, they covered his neck in gauze and wrapped masking tape around his head very sloppily. was pretty funny looking. and this keyboard suckssss.
so i´m noticing more and more the huge differences between vet clinics here and in the us. never would a doctor scrub the floor or do the intake on a patient in the us. only in other countries do they reuse bloody pieces of gauze and have such little care for sterility. but thats how it goes when money is such a huge factor. they reuse needles as long as it is on the same animal. owners are allowed to stand in on surgeries and watch, sometiemes even help. so weird. the doctors do everything, there are no technicians to do anything for them, so they do everything from the dirty work to the surgeries. never never never in the US would a vet do so many of these things, its so strange. but definitely good in a way, keeps them from becoming above everything and everyone.
okay, time to go eat lunch and go work with the kids, but ill update about this weekend´s adventures later on. :)