Yesterday I paid a pre-surgical pastoral call on a cat. Pre-surgical calls are something I did a lot of as a hospital chaplain, somewhat fewer as a parish pastor, but this is the first time the call-ee was feline. One of our second graders’ cats is having surgery today. She (the girl, not the cat) was a little nervous about it.
The thing I love most about my job is that it’s never the same from day to day.
Anyone else done anything out-of-the ordinary at work this week?
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
*giggle* That's wonderful! *hopes the kitty makes it through surgery okay*
I've been working out at the farm this week. I've never harvested corn before -- its quite some work! Actually, I wasn't doing the harvesting, my coworker was. I was measuring plot length and cleaning up the corn that had just fallen over and not made it into the chopper. I'm very glad these days are few and far between!
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Last year, when I was working at the flower shop, I had to unpack a bunch of boxes of Christmas decorations that had been stored up in someone's barn all year.
In the process, I found no less than 27 dead bats. As to why they felt it necessary to crawl into a fake tree and die, I'll never know, but I was washing my hands every 8 minutes, and ended up scrubbing them raw. Awful stuff.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I'm sure the cat felt better knowing you care.
Good work!
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
How sweet. Cats need pastoral care too, as do the little girls who own cats that are going to have surgery. Posted by Trisha the Severe Hottie (Member # 6000) on :
Wow, just searching through the old posts...
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I thought Christy worked in a lab? I am confused.
And this was before the Dana-Bob lovefest, was it not? Hee hee.
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
I work at an agronomy lab -- hence also do a bit of farm work, cow work and research plots.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Cool! I thought maybe you used to work on a farm, and now work in a lab.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
I'm conspiring to axe murder everyone in our sales department.
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
My favorite pre-lovefest BobandDana moment was when Dana posted fluff to bump Bob's landmark on to the second page.
Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :
That is so cool, Dana...I remember the day the senior pastor baptised Olivia's doll after a service. These things mean so much to the little ones.
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