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Season 5 - Episode 50 - What I learned from a trip to the emergency vet · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop, and
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. So I want to tell you a little
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  story about my cat Belle. Now you see, Belle was not a cat
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  that I chose to have in the sense of I I wanted a cat and I
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  went out and picked out a cat. Belle is a cat that my daughter
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  had and my daughter started dating a a young man who's now
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  her husband and many years ago and they had a dog.
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  He had a dog and they could not get along.
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  And as it turns out, my cat was passing away at the same time
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  that Belle was in her life, and she looked very much like her.
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  So one fateful day I decided to take Belle.
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  And Belle is now my cat. And I've always, when I say
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  always, my entire life, I do not remember living without a cat.
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  Just always had cats from the time I was little till now.
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  I, I literally never went to an apartment and didn't have a cat
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  or didn't have two cats, always had cats.
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  Anyway, so we noticed recently that Belle has been having
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  trouble and she seemed like she was, had had a hairball.
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  So we're doing hairball medicine.
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  She wouldn't take it. It was this whole thing and then
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  she was throwing up. And then the other day I noticed
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  I said, OK, I'm going to take her to the vet and she doesn't
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  like car rides. So that we have an emergency vet
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  that's very nice. It's privately owned, which I
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  love. It's not a chain or anything.
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  It's just run by these two wonderful women.
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  And it's like less than 6 minutes from the house.
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  So I was like, OK, let's go. So we take her to the vet and
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  and they can't determine, they believe she has a, a hairball, a
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  large hairball that's not coming out.
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  But they said she was dehydrated.
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  But everything else was perfect. All of her blood work was
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  perfect. Everything was perfect.
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  So they were suggesting all these things that we could do
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  and we could, you know, have a scope, but they couldn't do it
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  where they were. You have to send her to this
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  specialty place. So the saga with Belle is going
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  to continue this week coming up where I have to call her regular
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  vet, talk to him about what the situation is, seeing if he can
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  do the scope. We're going to heavily try to
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  get her to move it on her own by giving her using a syringe to
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  give her hairball medicine and whatnot.
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  But now, mind you, I'm at the emergency vet and I sat there in
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  the morning. I was the very first one there,
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  of course, because you know, that's how I am.
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  And once she got in, I, I was OK.
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  I, I had to wait while they were doing all the stuff till the
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  conclusions came out. So I was there for a good 45
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  minutes to an hour, sitting on the bench waiting.
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  And all these people are coming in person after person, person
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  after person. Here I am sitting on the bench
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  reading on my phone, Thank goodness for Kindle.
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  And you know, I, I don't doom scroll.
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  I won't just sit and scroll. It doesn't do any good for my
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  head. So I have a Kindle and I, I'm
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  reading while I'm sitting there and person after person, animal
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  lover after animal lover is coming in.
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  And again, emergency vet. So primarily emergency vet.
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  And so everyone is in duress. Everyone's coming in and
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  everyone has an issue, whether it's a small dog, another cat, a
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  big dog, everyone has something going on.
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  The common thing that they all had was how much they loved
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  these animals. The common thing that they all
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  had was this immense fear and you could feel it in the room.
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  Like you walk in the door and you feel it.
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  You can see these people sitting there like, Oh no, what is today
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  going to bring me? Oh no, how much is this going to
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  cost? Oh no, is my animal going to be
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  OK? Can I afford to have my animal
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  be OK? You could feel all of it
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  happening, and maybe I feel it more than others because I live
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  feeling things all the time for my clients and myself, but in a
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  different way, like an interpretive way.
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  But the pressure in that room was palpable.
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  And you could, you could actually see in the air, I can't
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  explain it, but you could see it in the air.
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  The girl working at the desk was so sweet and the place was not.
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  So it was clinical, of course, because it's a vet's office, but
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  she had all these beautiful ferns growing and she had all
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  these ficus growing and she had plants.
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  They had a fish tank, the bubbles.
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  They did everything they could. And I said to her, I really
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  appreciate how you try to make this environment de stressed
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  because you can see everyone's so stressed.
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  And her face lit up, her face just she picked up her head and
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  she said thank you. She's like, that's exactly what
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  we try to do. Both the doctors try to make
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  sure that everyone knows that we want to take care of everybody.
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  And we know this is painful. We know this is hard.
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  And it was such a reinforcement of environment, such a
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  reinforcement of people are trying all around us.
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  So remember, when you are in this state where you have this
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  stuff, just pause and look around.
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  Because what helped me break my fear was looking around and
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  noticing all this stuff, noticing what what they were
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  doing, seeing how they were trying to do it.
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  And the saga with Belle will continue this week.
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  We'll see where it will go. She's being very well cared for
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  here at home now. She's happy this morning sitting
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  on the porch watching the birds. So we will see how it goes.
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  But you know me and my animals very tight, very attached.
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  So we will see how this goes and I will keep you all posted.
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  But remember, when you're having that kind of emotion, stop and
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  pause and look around because there may just be some great
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  stuff outside of the moment that you're feeling inside, and the
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  outside might help you. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.