vets – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:33:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg vets – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 On the sixth day of advent: A surprising turn of events https://shepline.com/2007/12/06/on-the-sixth-day-of-advent-a-surprising-turn-of-events-2/ https://shepline.com/2007/12/06/on-the-sixth-day-of-advent-a-surprising-turn-of-events-2/#respond Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:40:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/on-the-sixth-day-of-advent-a-surprising-turn-of-events-2/ 1. Arthur was still not quite right this morning. Not quite his usual carefree self, and uninterested in food. I booked an appointment with the vet. He does have a bit of a temperature, but otherwise seems to be okay. The vets dosed him up with anti-inflamatories and antibiotics and he has to go back tomorrow to see how his temperature is. It’s probably man-flu though!

2. Timing is a wonderful thing. I left a bit early so that I knew I would get to the vets alright. I got back to the car, and was about to plug my phone into the car when this number I don’t know started to ring. I answered. It was only the agent from Cream – one of the agencies when it comes to web/creative jobs! I’d slung in an application for a job the other day, and she was phoning to find out a bit more about me before submitting my cv in to the company. Yayy, go me! Every time that I have previously applied for a job via Cream, its come back with ‘your cv is interesting but our clients are looking for people who have worked in design studios’ answer.

3. I got home just after 5 o’clock, to discover that Arthur seemed to be (encouragingly) a bit more perky. I also missed by seconds another call from Claire at Cream. Hrmm…? I was about to phone back when she phoned my landline. The company, Clere, based in Newbury would only like to inteview me. They were offering tomorrow, but that’s just a little too soon, so the interview is next Tuesday. Looking up the directions on google, it looks like a 53 minute commute without traffic, so pretty nasty from Bicester every morning. But if, once I’d got any kind of probation over and done with, I moved, then Abingdon would come into the frey – or somewhere like that. It’s not like Emma and I haven’t been talking about future, and that would necessitate a move anyway…

]]> https://shepline.com/2007/12/06/on-the-sixth-day-of-advent-a-surprising-turn-of-events-2/feed/ 0 Free to enjoy the next six months… https://shepline.com/2006/02/09/free-to-enjoy-the-next-six-months/ https://shepline.com/2006/02/09/free-to-enjoy-the-next-six-months/#respond Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:16:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1280 Upon getting home from work today, Pepper was waiting for me, curled up on the sofa. Just as well as I wanted him. He was soon not to pleased when I shut all the doors and kept him because I had to take him to be ‘listened to’ by nice Mr Hart. It turns out that his heart rate is down to something approaching normal for at cat facing a trip to the vets, and his heart murmur is no worse. Together with my report that he seems to be a bit more spritely of late, Mr Hart doesn’t want to see him again for another six months.

So that’s good Pepper. Just keep taking those tablets! 🙂

]]> https://shepline.com/2006/02/09/free-to-enjoy-the-next-six-months/feed/ 0 My friend, Pepper https://shepline.com/2005/11/09/my-friend-pepper/ https://shepline.com/2005/11/09/my-friend-pepper/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:19:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1203 When I got home from work today (coincidentally after stopping off at the vet to pick up more food, and arranging with Kathy over the way to come in over the weekend whilst I am away), I discoverd Pepper, curled up and not in the best of moods on tthe top step of the stairs. Fearing that he might have been bitten again, even though he was not in obviously as much discomfort and pain as before, I phoned my vet. By the skin of my teeth I managed to get in to see my normal vet in vet’s hours rather than having to go for emergency hours. Poor Pepper has been in another fight, and been bitten and scratched.

He’s dosed up with anti-inflamatories and has another course of antibiotics, but what’s worse is that his heart murmur which apparently was a 3 back in August is now a 4 – and the vet thinks that part of his discomfort now might actually be do with his heart. He’s recommending the scan, and posible x-ray (which will be betwen £75 and £120 and then a likely £16 a month in treatment thereafter.

I now need to find out more about what what will happen if I do nothing compared to if I go for treatment, more importantly what Pepper’s quality of life will be in each case. I fear that there might be tough decisions ahead of me.

When I do have young kittens, I will definitely be getting them insured.

]]> https://shepline.com/2005/11/09/my-friend-pepper/feed/ 2 £70 the poorer, but he’s comfortable… https://shepline.com/2005/10/06/70-the-poorer-but-hes-comfortable/ https://shepline.com/2005/10/06/70-the-poorer-but-hes-comfortable/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:51:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1159 Pepper was not a happy pusscat when I got in from work. He was lying on the sofa, seemingly blissfully asleep, but when approached, meowing, and defensive and deffinitely not comfortable. And of course by the time I was able to do anything about it, it was into the hours of the emergency vet. Aborting myself from wind band tonight, I drove him, after scooping up and into his travel carrier with oven-gloves, down to the 24-hour vet on Botley Road, Oxford.

It seems that his right shoulder is very swollen, and the skin, beneath his fur red. There are also what looks like tiny flecks of blood where you wouldn’t normally see it in the normal course of stroking him. The vet thinks that he’s either disolocated his shoulder, or (more likely) been bitten by another cat. She dosed him up on anti-inflamatories and pain-killers and I have take him to my vet tomorrow afternoon, evening, for a follow up.

Back home, he seems to be more comfortable now, and he will let me stroke him again. I just want him to be fully better again.

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