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Ep. 9: Gong But Not Forgotten
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Join Kel, Dr. G, and Dr. M as we spill the kibble on your submitted vet stories. In this episode we talk about Nyastee Christmas, unforgettable client gifts, and "A Woofmas Carol" ending. This episode is for entertainment purposes only, please talk to your vet before following any advice heard on this show.
Interested in sharing your own clinic stories? Email us at spill@spillthekibble.com
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Introduction to 'Spill the Kibble'
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nor listening to Spill the Kibble, the podcast where I read your submitted stories and have real veterinarians react to them. If you are interested in sharing your clinic story, email us at spill at spill the kibble.com.
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Please note that this show is not suitable for all listeners. Listener discretion is advised. And with that, let's go to the show.
Meet the Hosts: Kel, Dr. G, and Dr. M
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Welcome to Spill the Kibble. I'm Kel.
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I'm Dr. G. And I'm Dr. M. And we're here to tell your clinic stories. But first, how are you doing? How is your holiday? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
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It's chill. Nailed it. That i was a beautiful ho-ho-ho. Totally. Don't be embarrassed. Don't hide your light under a bushel. My bushel is shining.
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i don't think the bush was supposed to shine. yeah Okay. Well, I am great and holiday-y.
Holiday Plans and Gratitude to ER Staff
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What about y'all? Yeah, I'm doing great. You know, um looking forward to some festivities, both at work and at home.
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Can't complain. You're working the holiday? Yeah. ah Kind of. I'm working Christmas Eve, but off Christmas Day. So little bit of a mix. Same. Nice.
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Sorry for all. ah Actually, sorry, but also thank you so much to all of our ER um friends and family who are working on Christmas Day. You guys are amazing, and we love you, and we are thankful for you.
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Fully. Thank you. Yes. Well, I'm off for two weeks. so Oh, ho okay. Suckers. And are you guys going to be doing the holidays together, like family style or what?
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Ew, no. Not this year. It's about time. Cut the cord. To the listeners,
Family Holiday Traditions
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Dr. M and I are sisters. It's Sisters. Sisters. Sisters. We don't have the rights for that. um Yes, we are Seasters. We did do like a cute little family like pre-Christmas get together. um Over the weekend. presence situation Mr. Beef, roast beef and un-present situation over the weekend because um Cal is heading out to beautiful sunny California for Christmas this year.
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Excellent. Mm-hmm. I know. Melakalikimaka and all that. Except for not really because it's California. but It's closer. It's closer to Hawaii. Closer to Melakalikimaka than i've ever been for Christmas.
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There's a palm tree. There's a palm tree. more. Maybe two. I've seen it. so Two or three. Yeah, handful. did Christmas in Palm Springs one year. That was nice.
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That does sound nice. Do you have family there? No, this was after for funds some natural disaster kind of messed up a a family home.
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but You know, everyone was safe, but the house was jacked up. And so we did not do Christmas for like two or three consecutive years while that was getting worked on. So we went somewhere and that was ah the first or second year.
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I think that sounds lovely. We went to um London for Christmas one year. well i think that's the only Christmas abroad, like not in someone's home that I remember ever having.
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It was pretty fun. It's not cold there. now Just a little rainy, little blustery. Crank the
Workplace Holiday Traditions
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hv Feel like your own. Yeah, exactly. i don't a lot of them don't have AC.
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Shout out London. Not lot of air conditioning. Wait, I thought you were talking about California. Oh, no. Well, who we were, but then also we said we spent one Christmas in London. That was the only abroad. And it was hot there?
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It wasn't cold. A very neutral Christmas in London. It wasn't very cold for December. Yeah. for us. Compared to an all-American Christmas, it was pretty mild. It was just rainy. Honestly, it was kind of gray, but it was lovely otherwise. California is normally warmer than London at Christmas.
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Though it's rainy. Are people coming into town for the holidays for you, dr g Oh, right. Because you would know each other's plans. Yeah. ah Yes. Actually, after we finish recording, I have to go to the airport to pick up my folks. They're coming in town for the week.
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Nice. That's awesome. We love that. We do. It'll be a blast. oh It will be a blast. Doing anything fun at work or are you just chilling? Because you do some like relief stuff. so you might not have established like work holiday plans. ah Yeah, I got i had a one holiday party, another one coming up.
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Some relief places are gracious enough to let me crash their parties.
Gifts from Clients: Unusual and Heartfelt
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so I mean, I would let you crash a party. You're pretty fun. I feel like that's yeah that's an easy that's an easy win. And the nice part about being an afterthought, too, is that like they forget to tell you about like to do the Secret Santa or Yankee Swap or whatever. Yeah. um So it's no pressure. You just get to go eat drink, and ah sorry show up in street clothes and surprise people.
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Sorry, what is a Yankee swap? Yankee swap? It's another name for white white elephant, nasty Christmas, whatever. You know, everyone brings a gift. Nasty Christmas. And you just start you start picking it.
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You got white elephant. You got Yankee swap. You got nasty Christmas. Is that, did I just, I might have made that up. I don't know. love it. and That's what I want to call it from now on. Be like, are we going to do nasty Christmas this year? It's nasty, Chris. Nasty. Like N-Y-A-S-T-E-E?
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Precisely. X-M-A-S? One word? Okay, perfect. I love that. Intercaps, the whole nine. yeah love Yeah, perfect. So yes, I got to skip on those parts, but still enjoy all the other stuff. Perfect.
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Yeah, I do miss being at a place consistently where you get to have some sort of a tradition. You play the game Monikers. No. Like a good no card game kind of thing. It's like a three part version of first. It's giving people clues to have them guess a thing that's on a card, like they're usually pop culture or like that. The second one, you can only have them guess one word. And the third is you have to act out like charades. yes this house I think this game has many a name and I have played it under a different moniker. Hmm. So what's kind of got that TM though?
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say Did you used to play that at one of your old? i Yeah, I kind of rigged up like a custom set of holiday type clues, which is very fun. That is very, very fun. That is very fun.
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We are going to do like a luncheon and a little gift exchange-a-rooney. We got some um new Carhartt, not sponsored, but wish they would, Carhartt work jackets for everybody to keep them nice and snug and warm. um And then this will come out after they already have their presence, so it's fine. um I had a little pencil drawings done of everybody's pets and I have them put in frames for them. oh yeahman Can i come do I come work for you?
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Yeah, we're hiring actively. Please come and work for me. Honestly, that goes for anybody else. if you can um I haven't been a tech in years, though. If you can unravel who I am, i am looking for someone cool to come work at my house. You can email us at spill at spillthekitbull.com and you can ask for a job or send us your clinic story.
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Either one. We can start clinic stories, resumes. You could do both. You could do both. So just let me know. do you Do you both get gifts from like pet owners? Like client gifts?
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Oh, it happens. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of times, like especially some of the clients that we have really good relationships with, some of them will bake cookies or they'll drop off little treats for the girls, which is so nice. And a lot of times to like specialists in the area, if they like work for themselves, like we have a really lovely traveling cardiologist who usually gives us stuff or like trainers that we recommend. Sometimes we'll send us a little card and a little gift, which is super cute. um So, yeah, we get it. We get it. We get it.
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Kale, have you ever shared a holiday gift with your veterinary team?
Bizarre Euthanasia Story
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ah Well, yeah, my veterinary team is tagged around. Right. So I give her presents quite often.
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It's built in. Yeah, you were but you were buttering her up for years before even becoming doctor. Yeah, i was I've been giving her presents before she even thought she'd be a veterinarian. Yeah, that's true. Encouraged me and everything. I'll allow it. oh ah Yeah, bay treats are always great.
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ah Bottles of wine are not an infrequent offering. What's the craziest gift you've ever gotten? Because you know there's got to be something real bonkers you weren't expecting.
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interesting One of my favorite ones was it was like a set of 12 custom greeting cards. This person had taken Sony pictures of their cat and then they did like a whole collage clip art situation um for very, very nice greeting cards. And I couldn't stand the thought of ruining them by writing in them. So I just keep them and they're like folk art. I love them.
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That is adorable. It's a it's a it was a it was a Burmese cat. It's really sweet. Oh, I'm so heartfelt, even though you're like, what? Totally. um my my craziest gift, it was not um a Christmas gift. This was just a like, thank you for helping my cat gift.
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And this was back when um dr g and I were in vet school. But this lovely, lovely, sweet woman, while I was still just a student, she definitely didn't need to give me a present. We had her cat um stay with us for about a week for radioactive iodine therapy. So i I talked to her a lot throughout that week to give her updates like morning and night. And so she I felt some kind of way about um our care and support. And so when she came to pick him up like a week later, she brought me a custom crocheted doll in my likeness um decorated with 3D scrapbook stickers of cats chasing yarn.
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and it it it was attached to you and covering pop-up air freshener for the bathroom what? with a real doll head How did she collect all your hair to make this thing? No, you know what? Honestly, it was kind of auburn and she was like, I didn't nail the hair. I'm so sorry. And I was like, that's okay. That's really fine. I still have it. It's one of my most prized possessions on the planet. But all she knew about me was that I enjoy cats. And so she covered mine with cats. And then the internal medicine specialist, the resident that I was working with on the case, got one as well in her likeness in a sun hat with like Floridian stickers because she knew that she had lived in Florida. Yeah.
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And it was perfect. That's so sweet. It was so sweet, but also completely unexpected. And I paraded those gifts around the entire teaching hospital to show every living soul. I said, you wish you had a doll in your likeness. Now, I will say not everyone is going to appreciate a gift like that, but you were the exact right person to get that gift. was the perfect person to get that gift. It's truly, the i I challenge any clients listening to top it. I don't know if you can.
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It's pretty dang great. It's so camp. It's so perfect. It's so camp. I just love that she was like, I made this doll of you this week. And she met me one week ago. Like this woman pumped out this doll.
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She was just thinking about her cat, crocheting. Probably helped her ah keep her mind off the... It probably did. Her kitty. He was a very good kitty. Do you feel good that that was a fresh doll? There's no way to know, but certainly the stickers added to it. And like here's the thing, maybe she has an entire like bifold closet that's just like dolls head to toe, like pre-made. Hello, girls.
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But I remember it's the dress is white and purple, and I was wearing purple scrubs that day. And so she was like, you love purple. That's your favorite color. Well, i have a story is...
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and Maybe it doesn't fit, but it's still a good story. Christmas is coming early. Yeah. With that, the Christmas tree has been trimmed. The lights have been strong. And oh, God, Fluffy.
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no Don't tell him that cord.
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but um Fluffy was fine because we had a great team of vets on standby. Merry Christmas. They've been groomed since the day where they were born with annual gifts to be ready for this moment. Yeah.
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So this story is from Dr. J. Thank you, Dr. Jenner. Not sure if this will be appropriate for a podcast. Well. Yeah, I know. Jury's out. there's There's no, the limit does not exist. yeah Hold my beer.
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It's here. i love the inappropriate ones. Sorry, go ahead. My wackiest stories come from house call euthanasias. What says Christmas more than a euthanasia? I mean, honestly, it does happen a little bit more around the holidays, unfortunately. And Dr. G um knows house call euthanasia as well. So I feel like you will be a perfect expert on this. Yeah. So the story goes, I once went out for a feline house call euthanasia visit with an assistant.
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We arrived at a nice looking house in an upscale neighborhood. We were greeted by a friendly gentleman at the door and ushered into the house. Seems pretty par for the course so far. Yeah, what do you think about that?
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ah Friendly gentleman at the door is interesting. i'm imagining a lurch type creature ah rather than the client, the father, the husband, the son, the brother, the anything other than gentleman. I like the idea that no one answered the door and he's like, ha hello. And then it creaks open. I'm like, anyone there? Hello, I'm here for coffee. The ghost of Christmas future. yeah but but the dad the The cat's been dead for 10 years. but
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I've been told in advance to like just let yourself in and when you get here. We'll be around back. Intriguing. um yeah But never left him on devices. I would never open the door with without being asked.
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ah So the story continues. When we walked in, the entire downstairs was illuminated by only candles. That's painting a picture. I'm thinking of those like um those movies where they replace all the songs with like a live orchestra like and in candlelight. They're like, this is Star Wars, but romantic.
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Kanye and Kim Kardashian style. Yeah, sure. Absolutely. Did they do that? He had her like, they play the Imperial March in that movie. Oh, it was like a full orchestra. She like came down for Christmas morning and there was like a full orchestra one year.
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um that's fair. Then yeah, exactly. It went crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, the story continues. The family of five gathered around my assistant and myself forming a ring around us by holding hands.
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They said five? Yes. what do What do you think about that? It's giving cult a little. I know. Pentagram, right? Yeah, it's giving magic circle.
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It's summer. They are 100% standing perfectly spaced in five. We're in a basement. It's by candlelight. We're in pentagram formation.
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Okay. that I would be a little spook-ba-gooped. I'm not going to lie if this were me, but it's fine. Maybe they're going to tell us what what they were wearing. It's just white robes. don't comment, it's yeah it's not fully white or fully black robes.
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Yeah, that's fair. Black robes hooded. Dang. Yep. They get you every time. Ah, shoot. um and Dr. J continues. The lighting was terrible. But thankfully, the process was going smoothly with a butterfly catheter.
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Perfect. Right as I'm administering the second injection, the man hits a large gong behind us. What? What? A gong. gong.
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A large gong. Well, not with the candlelight. Just to make sure this is g g o n g G-O-N-G geo and g gong. G-O-N-G That's wild.
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it's It's like it flew out of there. This came out of nowhere, the gong. Which speaking of ah when we went to London with our mom. Oh, yeah. We were walking down the street to go see Big Ben and she was looking like left and right across the street like, where is Big Ben? And we were like, Mom, it's right in front of you. And she turned it and like jumped out of her skin.
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She got surprised by Big Ben on Narsty Christmas. really It's like a jumped and out in bit you. couldn't be a bigger Ben. It's right there. or was it ring like She was looking like, is it on the street corners?
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but Listen, sometimes you miss Big Ben. Sometimes you miss a gong in the back of the cult room. Yeah. ah Forest before the trees, what have you. Yeah, that's fair. um And much like our mother, he jumped out of his skin.
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it's But the catheter stayed in, which is really all you need. Oh, thank It's men's skills. I should warned him. It's not done yet. The story's not done.
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What else is going to happen? He hits it three more times before I finish giving the second injection. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to do it four times. One for each of the the four humors of the body. Thank you I mean, and listen, I'm thinking about incorporating four gong strikes into my future plans. Just putting it in the will. Like, you never know.
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Yellow bile. Black bile. Slim.
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Whoa. When our powers combine. Not the gong hat trick. Five people, four gong hits. Two injections. Where's the third? I need a three and a one.
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Yeah, keep going. Well, the remainder ah was ah uneventful. okay But at the time, my sister and I couldn't leave fast enough. Uneventful. Not too many syllables.
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Yeah, that's one that you get in the car your assistant. There you go. know yeah there you go ah Yeah, you get you get in the car with your assistant afterwards and you're like, what? Hey, what was that? Got to debrief in the car before you pull away.
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you know I don't get to debrief when I go. I'm i'm all by myself. I think that's sad. I wish you had an assistant to go with you. it's The debriefing is one of my favorite parts when there's a surprise gong. sometimes it's Most of the time it's just sad and we look at each other sad and say, you did a good job and you say, you too. And then we usher the beloved pet back to the the hospital. But every once in a while, it's gong time. It's gong time and we got a chat.
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Baby, it's gong time. i use mine to decompress and probably let my heart rate drop after the gong. I don't know if talking about it would only get me going again, I think. Yeah, I guess.
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That's fair. um No gong sound. oh I think I've had like a little tiny one. i wouldn't use the word gong. More of like a ding. A chime?
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Um... Still like like if Michael Scott had a gong on his desk. Okay, yeah, I can picture it. gong. More miniature. A pocket gong, yeah. Yeah. i I'm trying to like, I want to be a fly on the wall of this sweet, loving cult of a family that was so upset to be losing their pet.
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Who was like, you gotta bust out the gong. And who lit all the candles? Was this one person and everyone's like, we gotta to do what Uncle Joe says. Or was this a family of like how should we respect the dead best?
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I'm gonna err on the side of respect and kind that this is something they've done for all of them and every person that they've ever killed in their basement. You think so?
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Maybe every candle they've lit is for a soul they've taken. oh my shit. Maybe. Maybe. No hate to these people, obviously. like Well, no, is they're murderers. There's a little bit.
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Hey, they're innocent until they're innocent and until proven guilty. And as far as we know, they're just candle and gong enthusiasts that are a little awkward about death. Okay, well, next crew trim saga, it's going to be the candle.
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I can see the like Netflix original like little picture and it's just like a gong with a candle right in the center illuminating it. The fam's gong wild. wo That's good.
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Gong but not forgotten. <unk> For boom the gong tolls. Nope. You know what? It's something. There's something there. You're going to work out. You started. used to You got it right out of the gate. Gone, but not forgotten is pretty good. I'm not going lie. think that might be the title of the episode.
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I think it's a great title. We have another story. okay. Fun. Yeah. So this story is from Dr. C. Thank you, Dr. C. yeah Seesaw. with so we begin A little over a year ago, i got a call from a vet about a seven-year-old chihuahua mix.
Chihuahua's Near-Death Experience and Recovery
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A little guy who was mostly black with floppy ears and a charming underbite. Oh, I love it. I'm a sucker for an underbite. Love them little two-first sticking out.
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Charming underbite. yeah A charming. Are all underbites charming? or now No. know There's probably a break point. If you're not doing a dental, then yeah, sure.
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Sure. Yeah. Well, this guy had no medical history. so And I was told he was a little spicy. Do you have a scale for spice? We had like the um Buffalo Wild Wings spice scale hung up on our wall for a little bit and we would describe what wide level of spiciness the animals were to each other using it.
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Cool. He was in pain. He had poor appetite and was acting nauseous, licking and gulping a lot. who Thoughts?
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I'm queasy. Hi, queasy. I'm dad. My mouth hurts. Hi, queasy.
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Oh, boy. I feel like being nauseous with an underbite would be harder than being nauseous with a regular bite. Overbite? Easy. The drool just slips right out of you. Underbite?
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You're kind of collecting it like a little fountain. So it goes on. They thought it might be a tooth problem. Sure. That tracks. So they sedated him with a mild dose. I'm not good with these.
00:23:40
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Wait, let's guess. What do you what do you think it's gonna be? Dexmedetomidine. Yes, dexmedetomidine. Yes. That's revenge for the Bella situation where I didn't nail it the first go.
00:23:51
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And... Butorphanol. Yes, butorphanol. Nice. ert bur But... Like butane.
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Butorphanol. All right. Tell me more about this dog's underbite and tooth issue. Sorry. Everything was expected at first, but his heart rate dropped.
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He was sleepy. They were able to check his mouth and body, but then suddenly his heart stopped. Oh, no. And his vital signs flatlined.
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He coded. Oh, baby. That's everyone's worst nightmare. Mm-hmm. Keep going. Keep going. I know. I know. I know. Now you're like. We're just Schrodinger. And that's it. Merry Christmas, everyone. Have a good night.
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The ghost of Christmas past. Gosh. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. The team jumped into action with CPR, gave him Narcan.
00:24:54
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Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Narcan. Naloxone. Atropine. Atropine. Atropine. And after about eight minutes of intense work, he came back.
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Yay! That's amazing. team. It was a total miracle, especially for a little guy like him. But even though he was he was revived, he wasn't out of the woods yet.
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He was comatose, unresponsive to light, and had a weak gag reflex. His heart was working, but he was still in critical condition. oh buy I know but man you know what sometimes I do feel like those chihuahuas will just really like they're like I'm not dead yet just kind of you fight Yeah. worse They have some fight in them. When's this going to turn? I'm nervous. Okay, yeah okay. okay He was cold dehydrated and looked like he might never wake up. We ran some tests and surprised his sodium to potassium ratio was way off. Higher low.
00:25:56
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I was going to say low. Low? Yes, very low. If it was high, I'd be like, ah, weird. Anyway. thing So it pointed to Addison's disease, which can cause severe crisis like this. Sure enough, his cortisol was almost non-existent, confirming Addison's. So can one of you explain to me what Addison's disease is?
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Because i have no idea. And maybe our listeners don't know either. It depends. Dr. M, maybe you can tell me. Okay. So Addison's disease is a disease that affects the body's endocrine system, which is basically like all your hormones um in your body and how they trigger things and interact. So think about like your pituitary gland, your adrenal glands, all those silly little glands that we know exist, but we couldn't draw them if we wanted to.
00:26:51
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That's what we're talking about is that system. And Addison's is when your body is not making enough cortisol, which is the stress hormone. So in like fight or flight, when you like get your adrenaline pumping and you're ready to take on the world, you got cortisol pumping through your body.
00:27:08
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um so with Addison's, your body is just not able to make enough of that steroid for itself, if that makes sense. Does that sound, is that a good layman? Yes, and then potentially some also, yeah, so there's your stress hormones, your glucocorticoids, but then you also have your mineralocorticoids, so things that are associated with your kidneys and that kind of stuff.
00:27:26
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um So this this guy sounds like both were affected. So have you guys ever dealt with that before? Yeah. Addison's, but specifically not. Yeah, Addison's, Addisonian crisis. i guess I guess what's throwing me off is that like it manifested just as it was getting sedation.
00:27:44
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Yeah, that's a little strange, right? It's like we didn't know. But he was queasy before, remember? They just thought it was take. Right. But he had vague symptoms of like queasiness, drooliness, and like just offness before they said anything. Doc, what about the underbite?
00:27:59
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Well, I didn't think about that. Let's not discount the underbite. True. Is that a sign of Addison's disease? No. Hey, I don't know. i'm saying That's okay. That's a good question. no we're just being silly goofs. But yeah, I have a feeling that he was already like borderline crisis and then that just didn't help.
00:28:18
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Yeah, okay. That's my guess. Well, let's see what happens with this little guy. Come on, Doc, do it. Well, I know where Dr. found him. Okay, so we're Dr. C says, we started treatment right away and watched him closely. He was still out for the next few days, but slowly signs of improvement started to show. That's amazing.
00:28:39
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He started vocalizing and even chewed on his tube a little bit. Oh, buddy. Which was a good sign. That's a great sign. Especially with that underbite.
00:28:50
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Yeah. would Yeah. Hard to get contact. Even even awake, that's hard. Yeah. By the third day, he was eating on his own, and his owners came to visit, and he recognized them by voice. Yay. Oh, sweet baby.
00:29:07
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Fast forward a few weeks, he was up and walking around, still a bit wobbly and with some head tremors. Sure. overall, a complete turnaround. His owners did an amazing job with at-home care, doing range of motion exercises, keeping an eye on his weight and making sure he was comfortable.
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yeah A year later, i saw him for a checkup and he's now up and walking and doing well. And he was actually very sweet for his recheck exam. So I think some of that near-death experience made us spicy go mild.
00:29:42
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ah Do you think he had a little Ebenezer Scrooge situation where like he was visited by three ghosts and he came on the other side and was like, Merry Christmas, everyone.
00:29:55
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ah who were the three ghosts? and and Who were the three ghosts? Were they the drugs that he got? Addison, obviously. Okay, so the ghost the ghost of christmas the ghost of Christmas present was Sure.
00:30:12
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Addisonian Ray. The ghost of Christmas past was one of his littermates. Oh, cute. And the ghost of Christmas future was a black cat.
00:30:23
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Ooh, that's spooky. I like it. I like Addison Ray shoved right in the middle of a random dog. Minpin Chihuahua Vicks and a black cat. This is Addison Ray. I've seen them lying King style up in the clouds in a row of three.
00:30:38
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Yeah, that's amazing. woofmas carol. Let's make it. um This little dog went from flatlining to running around like a champ, all thanks to a lot of care and the power of persistence.
00:30:53
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Yeah, that's a beautiful story. You had us going there for a minute. He's doing well now, and I can't tell you how grateful I am to have been part of the miraculous recovery.
00:31:05
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It is quite the feather in your cap, um you know, when you do CPR and you're able to figure out what's going on in that crisis and then, like, bring them back because oftentimes that doesn't happen. So is that they those ones stick with you for sure. it's pretty exciting when you feel like, hell yeah, I was a doctor today, man.
00:31:25
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Like on the TV show version of a doctor, it's like when you, like, go full house and you're like, it's Lopez. Or like, I saved to the man's life. Is that what he sounds like? Yeah, is that an appropriate impression of whoever that actor is who plays him, Hugh Laurie?
00:31:40
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I've got it. I've saved a man's life with lupus. ah Yeah, I don't know. That was ah that was quite the story. it's pretty really full on That was a case.
00:31:51
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That was a case. Which I think is also fun. It is fun, absolutely. um Because in I enjoyed it in contrast to some of our other submissions, which are usually clients weird.
00:32:06
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Pets weird who or something's gross. Yeah. Or someone on my team weird. This one was an emotional roller coaster. yeah It was. And it also just goes to show that, like, you know, you can bring your your pet in for something that seems really mild and kind of run-of-the-mill, and you can assume it's something really simple, and then things can go wackadoodle. So you've got to be got be prepared for a for whatever.
00:32:32
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and so do you think do you think they scheduled this guy for its dental procedure after it was able to walk and... um see straight a year later. There wasn't anything wrong with his teeth, though. You think they finally got those two teeth out, though? ah There was nothing wrong with his teeth. They didn't take any radiographs. They don't know. ah That's true. i No, I wouldn't. i would never sedate that dog again.
00:32:54
Speaker
Chicken? I wouldn't sedate that chicken. You chicken? Oh, wait. yeah
00:33:02
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That's chicken on chicken crime. It's for the birds. I mean, I want to know what the dog's name is, but we can't give away that kind of information. Should we name him? Ebenezer. Ebenezer. Right, right, right. Yeah.
00:33:16
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All ebs. How do you make that doggy? Measy. Sure. Ebenozer. Oh, goodness. I think we did it.
00:33:29
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I think we did do it. Yeah, I think we done did it. We did undo it. I think we just spilled the kibble. No fluffies were harmed in the recording of this introduction.
00:33:41
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I like it. I think that's good. Thank you so much for listening.
Closing Remarks and Listener Invitation
00:33:46
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00:33:55
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