Injured but happy!

So, the job is going great. I enjoy the people I work with. They are each unique, fun, talented, and funny in their own way. It has been six weeks now and I feel like I fit in almost effortlessly. Dr. McCloud comes back on Monday, she has been on her annual vacation for the past three weeks. This year she went to Egypt! crazy. She deserved the break, she is the soul vet and owner and works 6 days a week, 10-12 hrs day. The past three weeks we have had a different relief vet working with us each week. The first week and this past week have been fine, the week in the middle I think we all could have lived without. But, she is back soon and things will be more normal. These three weeks have been good in the fact that I have been forced to know what I am doing more than I would have been if Dr. McCloud had been here. When the boss is a relief vet who doesn't know exactly how we do things at Animal Hospital of Central Brevard it forces the technicians to teach and to KNOW how we do things. Cool.

In the meantime, last Friday I hurt my thumb at work. There was a very scared and angry Persian cat (oh so ugly) we were trying to shave. He had had enough and I was the one restraining him. I had him scruffed and my colleague threw a towel over him so he wouldn't scratch us. He exploded under the towel and did a 180 with my thumb securely clentching his scruff...OWWW! Needless to say, I let it lie for a week and finally decided I needed to use workman's comp. to visit the doctor. I went today to find that I have severe tendonitis of my right thumb from tweaking it just so. I am wearing a brace for a bit and can only have light use of my right hand at work for a week. I am also on a mild muscle relaxant each night and a heafty Aleve dose during the day! I am hoping this blog comes out alright, because I took my relaxant a bit ago. We'll see! It'll heal though and I am just very glad that I (nor my colleagues) got a cat bite from the whole thing. There is not much quite like a cat bite (although, a human bite is worse)!

Starting this Monday. Josh and I are housesitting down the street at his grandparents house for 10 days! I will still be working and everything....BUT we get a house all to ourselves again. We are SOO excited. We will cook, watch movies, swim, and just enjoy. Can't wait. Oh, and Tuesday is my day off work and we have tickets to the triple feature Twilight event! Twilight, then New Moon, then the midnight premiere of Eclipse. I am not even having to drag Josh, we are equally excited! I love him for many reasons, but one is that he is never ever ashamed to have child-like excitement for anything he loves. Such an incredible quality. We are thrilled for this next week and a half!!!