My morning starts out around 7:30, I walk into work and prepare myself for the day to come.

I usually walk through the hospital and check out any patients who may have been admitted the night before and look at their status. I get them out and do a quick exam and leave them out for the doctors to write up their treatments after they have examined them.

My fellow technicians are doing the same or may be pre-oping animals who are getting surgery that day. We are usually running around doing treatments, getting animals anesthetized and prepped for surgery along with getting boarders ready to go home and answering buzzes from the doctors who are seeing appointments and need help in the rooms. A lot of times there are animals who are admitted that morning who may be sick or we need to do x-rays, or blood work on.

Sometimes we are so busy that we forget to stop and sit for lunch.

We are very involved with doing dentals and work with a specialist who comes in one day a week and does major dental work on dogs and cats such as root canals, crown preps, placing brackets in a dogs mouth to an animal who needs several extractions. The technicians are very involved with their dental from cleaning to charting the mouth to taking x-rays.

Some days feel like they are never going to end but I can go home that night thinking about how I saved that animals life who may have been dieing to giving my all to each and every animal that stepped into the hospitaland making their life better!