{"id":39794,"date":"2021-09-09T12:17:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secondchanceanimals.org\/?p=39794"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:20:55","slug":"care-compassion-have-no-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secondchanceanimals.org\/care-compassion-have-no-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Care &#038; Compassion Have No Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>CEO Sheryl Blancato offers a glimpse inside Second Chance<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Day after day, a similar scene plays out.\u00a0 Our veterinarians and vet techs go about their day, seeing pets for checkups and sick visits, or performing scheduled surgeries while reception staff greet pets and pet owners and schedule future appointments.\u00a0 They may have plans after work, even if it\u2019s just to put their feet up and relax.\u00a0 When a phone call comes in of a very sick pet, all those plans change.<\/p>\n<p>It was already midafternoon recently when Second Chance received a call about a dog that couldn\u2019t pee due to a blockage of stones.\u00a0 An emergency facility had temporarily unblocked him, but this was just a temporary fix.\u00a0 Without immediate surgery the dog would suffer in pain, unable to pee, and die.\u00a0 Emergency hospitals are stretched to the limit, just like the owner\u2019s budget.\u00a0 Second Chance was this dog\u2019s only chance.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly those afterwork plans changed.\u00a0\u00a0 Schedules were quickly shifted. A vet and two surgery techs agreed to extend their already long day to perform the surgery after their regular day ended.<\/p>\n<p>The dog arrived late afternoon and was prepped for surgery. The surgery began and it didn\u2019t take long to see that the dog was a lot sicker than originally thought.\u00a0 There weren\u2019t just a few stones\u2026there were hundreds of tiny stones.\u00a0 The expected one- to two-hour surgery continued for nearly five hours.\u00a0 Exhausted, the team plugged along.\u00a0 The vet carefully removed the stones while the surgery techs monitored the dog\u2019s vital signs.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital director had left for the day just as the surgery began, expecting the staff to be there just a couple of hours.\u00a0 When the surgery continued into the night, she left her family to provide support.\u00a0 She picked up snacks and Chinese food on the way back to the hospital.\u00a0 It was now after 9 PM and the surgery had to continue, there was no stopping. \u00a0They had to be sure that no stone was left behind, risking another blockage.<\/p>\n<p>The surgery finally ended a little after 10 PM.\u00a0 Now it was time to monitor the dog\u2019s recovery.\u00a0 The staff could finally sit down and have something to eat.\u00a0 The dog recovered well, the family was ecstatic, and the weary team headed home just before midnight.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an isolated story.\u00a0 It happens more often than you think.\u00a0 This dog is alive today and with his family because three staff members gave up their time and their plans to save a life. \u00a0I am in awe of the work our staff does at our hospitals and adoption center every day, going above and beyond when necessary to help a pet in need if possible.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, we adjusted the surgery schedule at our largest vet hospital in North Brookfield in response to the current emergency veterinary care crisis that&#8217;s affecting pets in Massachusetts and across the country.\u00a0 We reduced spay and neuter surgery capacity to allow our doctors to provide critical care and surgeries, saving an average of 25 pets every week. \u00a0While spay and neuter services are temporarily limited at this location, our Springfield and Worcester hospitals are running at full capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO Sheryl Blancato offers a glimpse inside Second Chance Day after day, a similar scene plays out.\u00a0 Our veterinarians and vet techs go about their day, seeing pets for checkups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondchanceanimals.org\/care-compassion-have-no-schedule\/\" class=\"more-link style1-button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-vet-services"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Care &amp; 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