A drop of this, a dash of that

go on an aimless bike/ride/walk - move your body, do it for as long as you feel like it, discover new places near you weather that is a frog or a cafe

watch a new movie/read a new book/listen to a new album - get inspired, excercise having opinions and longer attention span, break out of consuming content and make a choice about what you want to expirience

create something in a medium i haven't used in a while - get out of a habit, rekindle a flame you haven't been upkeeping, making a friendship bracelet counts

go have a fun new drink/snack - arguably most important, have a little treat without rush, slow down and focus on physical sensations, treat yourself in a way that isn't landfillcore

meet with friends and/or go to a place where you meet strangers - human connection is good for you, (maybe some casual sex if you like that/try something new with your partner)

make some bad art - create for the sake of creating without any expectations

play an instrument - this can be anything that makes you reach a kind of flow state

go see something you haven't yet - get to know the cultural/geographical map of your area, this includes events, places, or just anything that makes you go out of your way to expirience something new, can be like a viewpoint or it can be a museum exhibit, anything you find cool

Rant under the cut

The dog has been taken to animal control (different than the city shelter). No word yet on if he’s been euthanized yet but they said we should have rabies results tomorrrow. Not that it matters at this point but it’s standard.

The ac officer I spoke with didnt have any info on whether the owner has been arrested or charged. But he did confirm she had a warrant related to the incident. He said he’ll probe around and see if there’s any new info. Apparently this is one of the worst dog bite incident he’s ever seen and he’s positive we break the record for number of victims of a single event.

Not comforting at all.

We had a lot of people bit/injured:

The owner of the rabid dog

the owner of the puppy

the puppy (who I have no update on)

me

the tech who had to have surgery

a third tech who didn’t get bit but did rip her nail off her index finger trying to pry the rabid dogs mouth open to let go of our coworker’s arm

the receptionist who got bit by the puppy when she managed to get it away from the rabid dog

a fourth tech who got elbowed in the face and her nose broken by the rabid dog’s owner during the scuffle that happened when the dog released the puppy then bit several people then latched onto the second tech

Several other owners in the lobby who had to go to urgent care bc the only way we could get him to release the tech was to spray mace in his face resulting in everyone already listed and like 4 to 7 different owners who were in the small enclosed lobby when we sprayed (genuinely idk if it was actually the citronella dog spray we have for dog fights or if it was someone’s personal mace)

Two dogs in the lobby who got maced

So we have at least a dozen human victims which is so fun. And yes everyone who even sat in the same room as the rabid dog was told to seek medical care as rabies is passed through saliva and mucous membranes and with the way this dog was drooling everywhere and the chaos of it all they are considered exposed. Idk if this means they’ll get the same post exposure treatment as me or anyone who was bitten but even the people who got injured and had their wounds exposed to the dog are being treated just as severely as me.

I’m still at home, ironically I had several days off lined up already by happenstance so I haven’t had to go to work yet. I’m technically due back next Tuesday but my boss said I could stay home longer if I need it, I haven’t decided, my stitches hurt and I just feel like crap but I also don’t wanna use up all my pto and I kinda hate being home so much.

The puppy who was attacked passed away on the way to the emergency clinic. The owner blames us bc she believed we should’ve stabilized the puppy before he left, obviously under normal circumstances we would or we would just handle the emergency but given the fact that more than half of the tech team was injured there was no way we could’ve done that. We also only had one dvm on staff that day bc we weren’t doing surgeries and the vet was dealing with the rabid dog and owner.

It’s very unfortunate, but redirected blame is very common in this field and many owners believe there’s always something more the clinic couldve done no matter the situation.

I’m back at work covering the front desk. The receptionist quit, she wasn’t tech trained and has always been squeamish which is fine but everything that happened was too much for her. Totally understand and I wish her well.

All of the techs who were injured have returned except for the one who was maimed and requires more surgery. Idk if she’s planning to return, it was a pretty gnarly attack but I’ve seen techs return to the field for worse so who knows.

The rabid dog’s test came back positive for rabies which surprises no one. He apparently bit more people after leaving our clinic and the owner was able to get all the way home before law enforcement caught up to them. He bit a neighbor teen and the owner’s husband before being captured but animal control is canvassing the town for more potential victims. It’s a small town so chances of any more are slim, we def would’ve heard about it (or someone would’ve shot the dog tbh)

The owners have both been arrested and will be charged with something, idk and idc. Both owners have been admitted to the hospital for exposure treatment. The man will likely improve as he claims he only got bit right before the dog was captured. But the woman has been uncooperative and the rumor is she probably won’t make it. The man is cooperating and may likely get charges dropped, my friends at the shelter say it sounds like he may have been out of town or otherwise not that involved with the dog so there’s a good chance he had nothing to do with this other than marrying a crazy lady. The fact that he willingly went into custody and even asked the officers arresting him to apologize to the victims is a good sign for him but idk.

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he also said that it was incredibly unlikely that sexism will ever be resolved in the medical field. that the majority of medications i will ever take - even some of which are "for women" - will not be clinically tested on my body.

the problem, he said, was in getting any human clinical trial approved. to test on a body with a uterus - any body, even elderly patients or those who have been sterilized - was often nigh-impossible, because the concern was that the test patient may, at any point, become pregnant. once/if the patient became pregnant, the study would not be about "the effects of New Medication on the body." instead, the trial would fail - the results would be "the effects of New Medication on a developing fetus/pregnant patient."

it was massively easier, he said, to just test without accounting for a uterus. that's how he phrased it - accounting for a uterus.

at the time, i remember him talking about the ethical implications of testing on a developing fetus; how such testing could theoretically bankrupt a company if a lawsuit was filed. he talked about informed consent and about how long it took for any legislation to be passed about this - that in 1993; the year i was born, it finally became illegal to outright exclude women and minorities from clinical trials.

i remember him shrugging. "that's not to say it doesn't happen," he said. my ears were ringing.

i was thinking about how every time i have been rushed to the ER, the first thing they have asked me is if i am pregnant. when i broke my wrist at 16 years old - despite never having had sex - they made me wait three hours for the test to come back negative before they gave me pain meds. the possibility of a child haunts my health.

how many people have died on the table because they were waiting for the pregnancy test before treatment. how many people have died on the table because they were pregnant, and the only thing we care about is the fetus.

it is hard to explain to other people, but it feels like some kind of strange ghost. our entire lives, we are supposed to "save" our bodies for our future partners. but really we are just saving the body for the future child, aren't we? that hovering future-almost that cartwheels around in a miasma. you can't get your tubes tied, what if you change your mind? think of the child you must have, eventually.

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Their name in Afrikaans means “anthill tiger” because they’ll hide inside a hollowed out anthill and then jump out and try to rip your face off