Dog Problems: Part 2

If my boss and her husband weren't making poor decisions before, they certainly are now.

As the saga of the tumorous dog continued on, things looked up. The vet wasn't able to remove most of the tumor, but Seamus could get up and down on his own, and even walk up the stairs. Keeping the tumor area bandaged seemed to be the biggest problem. The bandages fell off, so, being the resourceful people they are, my boss and her husband duct taped the bandages to the dog. The tumor was leaking, and the incisions weren't healing (old dog - harder to recover). The wooden floors in the house/office had trails of drops of blood. Somehow, the solution to this problem was to cover the duct-taped bandages with a T-shirt. Imagine clients reactions, seeing a dog with a T-shirt duct taped around it.

Since the bandages and wounds were just covered with a T-shirt and not cleaned, they got messy. In all his wisdom, my boss' idiot husband decides to "sanitize" a knife and cut off some of the infection/dried fluids.

The unofficial surgery did nothing to help the poor dog. By Monday afternoon it was clear he was going downhill faster than ever, and so my boss puts a call in to the vet to see what would be best to do.

On Tuesday morning her husband walks into my office (this never happens - the man hates my guts) and says "Kristin, everyone will seem a little sad today, because Seamus didn't make it through the night". He was crying. My boss was crying all day. They'd put the dog to sleep on Monday night.

Their children however, are positively giddy about life. Odd, as they had been so concerned about Seamus being healthy and having the surgery. I come to find out that Seamus had been taken for "emergency surgery" on Monday night, and he didn't come home because he was "in a coma".

Now the situation has really exploded, because you have a big lie on your hands. When does the dog die? Do you tell them you lied? What happens when someone inevitably slips up and they lose your trust?

Again, no one has thought past the present moment. They've thought, and admitted, that it's easier not to have to tell the kids and deal with their pain, as well.

Problems don't disappear.

Dead dogs don't come back to life.

Problems cannot be solved through blatant ignorance towards the issue.

Life requires consistent action in a forward direction.