I took three animals to our vet clinic in Helena today. Goldie was due for her next round of chemotherapy, and our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dave Bostwick, had been treating her cancer. But we had two cats who were also due for their annual vaccinations and health exams, and both were pending adoption, so we needed to get that done this week, too. And that was something our clinic in Helena needed to do instead of Dave.
We try to minimize the number of trips we make — Missoula is 60 miles to the west of us and Helena is 70 miles to the east — and to save money (gas) and time (never enough), our goal is to make no more than one trip per week to either town. Dave had earlier suggested that if we ever got in a jam and needed to go to Helena rather than Missoula, he would be happy to ask our internal medicine specialist in Helena, Dr. Britt Culver, to step in and administer Goldie's chemo. (We're incredibly lucky to have two internal medicine specialists, one in either direction!)
So yesterday Dave faxed over Goldie's treatment protocol to Britt, who graciously agreed to administer the chemo today. Britt is married to our primary care vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, who was just out at the ranch doing the annual exams and vaccinations on the dogs a couple of weeks ago.
In the photo above, vet tech Heather A. is holding Goldie while Britt injects the chemo drug. As usual, Goldie did just fine and continued to pester me as I drove around Helena running errands. It's amazing, but so far she has shown no ill effects from the chemotherapy.
Britt was also kind enough to go ahead and take care of the cats, too. In this next photo Britt is doing the physical exam on three-legged Honey Girl:
We have a potential adopter coming out to the ranch this weekend to meet Honey Girl, so if it happens, we'll have it on the blog next week.
And here is Britt with wobbly Claire:
Our employee Amy is adopting Claire, so she will soon be leaving the cat house for a home of her own with Amy!
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