Margaret came home from work around seven thirty this evening. She was a little wiped out; it had been a wild day at the Pet Works (actually named VCA Five Corners Veterinary Hospital. One of the first trials-by-fire for the new front desk people is learning to say all that when you pick up the phone without spitting your gum across the room).<\/p>\n
Among the rest of the wild rumpus, a goodish helping of confusion and disarray was sown by the fact that there were two separate cases in for surgery to fix a bowel obstruction (all right, two<\/em> bowel obstructions; the two patients didn’t share the same obstruction), both of which were dogs, both of which were named Cooper.<\/p>\n I laughed. “That’s a great name for one dog with a bowel obstruction, let alone two,” I said. <\/p>\n “What do you mean?” she asked as she pitched her work scrubs into the hamper.<\/p>\n “Well, a ‘cooper’ is traditionally a person who makes barrels, right?” She nodded as she crossed the room. “So, if you’re gonna have a patient who needs his bunghole reamed out, what better candidate than a patient named Cooper?”<\/p>\n Margaret turned to face me. “I do<\/em> love your way with words,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Margaret came home from work around seven thirty this evening. She was a little wiped out; it had been a wild day at the Pet Works (actually named VCA Five Corners Veterinary Hospital. One of the first trials-by-fire for the new front desk people is learning to say all that when you pick up the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}