u/No_Nefariousness9381

You know. The good ol’ I can’t leave my job because I need the money, I can’t take a pay cut, but my mental health is in the garbage..

I’ve been on the verge of deep depression for a hot min. But I always, dig myself out of this deep dark hole.

My soul dog died about 2 months ago, and I’ve been finding I really hard to care about anything. My coworkers, my job. But I’ve never lost my patient care aspect of it.

How many of you guys are on SSRI’s and had good experience? A coworker of mine just told me about micro dosing mushrooms and that they helped her.

I just wanted some ideas from other people and a bigger community..

When leaving vet med, did you guys update your resumes to sound more, client communication, inventory focused?
Vs in a clinical setting?

I can’t work with our surgeons anymore. And I’ve applied to like 50 jobs and just keep getting rejection after rejection.

I’m 31 F. I’ve been a veterinary technician in NV for 12 years. Unfortunately, my coworkers have killed the love I have for vet med, since everyone is just negative to be around and just unhappy with life..
I want more of life. I want to be able to live a comfortable wage, buy a decent home and just live with my partner and our dogs.

That being said, is it too late to start schooling and switch over to MRI? I already know some MRI machines since I do MRI’s for our neurology department at work.

I applied to Gurnick twice, and got ghosted both times. NPCollege is currently “waitlisted” for classes to begin… What other online colleges are there that are good? I still need to be able to make a living to pay my bills 😓

I’m the supervisor in my hospital.
Without giving away too much information, I’m having a couple of my techs do the “I don’t make enough money for this” whenever anything gets hard and it requires them to troubleshoot equipment.

Mind you, most of these techs make $30+ one is closer to the high 30’s…

Like no one makes enough. Realistically, but we all still have to do the job.
I just don’t know how to handle stuff like this sometimes and when I bring it to my upper management I get told “well it’s part of their job”
No very much help..

I need to be talked off the ledge.
A month ago, my soul dog passed away due to Tonsillary Squamous Cell.
About 3 days after, my 6yr old French started not wanting to eat…(very very rare for her.) she had a US with our internist, everything was normal except some stomach wall thickening & decreased motility. We started Reglan, she began eating about a couple days later.

Over the weekend, we tried to stop the Reglan, she stopped eating so we restarted it.
She still hasn’t been eating as good or even anywhere close to normal..

Sunday, my SO took our 12yr Cavi to her job to have a dr practice US for her certification. They found 2 spleen nodules + some gallbladder sludge, potential start of mucocele.
Today, he vomited twice and had runny diarrhea. + elevated kidney values…

Idk wtfffff is going on. My household is falling apart and I’m spiraling.

I have about 11k in credit card debt. Some from Christmas shopping, most from house emergencies, and some from pet emergencies…

How did you guys pay off debt? I don’t want to absolutely cut off my social life. But I want a good balance..
any ideas appreciated!

How long did you wait until you got another Cavalier?

I had to let my soul dog (Cavalier) go 3 weeks ago. And the house feels sooo empty without him around. I have 2 other cavaliers who are older, one is 11 and the other is 12.
I want to start putting in applications for rescues, for when a dog speaks to me. But I’m worried I’m just trying to keep myself busy, and trying to bring a dog home so I can distract myself from my grief, and to “fill the void.” Even though I feel like I’m just going to keep trying to compare him to the new puppy, and wanting them to be just like him, even though I he’s not going to come back to me. 😔

Even writing this, it feels like I’m not ready..

It’s my first official “full” week back to work after losing my soul dog 11 days ago..
And I just don’t care.

I don’t want to talk to anyone. I don’t want to solve anyone’s problems. I don’t want to do deal with anything except do my job and go home..

Anyone else feel like this after a similar experience? 😔

Do any of your clinics, or corporations offer pet bereavement? Really just curious.

I just recently lost my soul dog. I couldn’t go back to work, I couldn’t be home. I just couldn’t exist.
I had to empty out my PTO to cover my hours so I can pay my bills.

On top of that, our hospital director, texted me expressing how sorry she was for my dog’s loss and used my other dog’s name. 😔

Hi everyone!

I lost the love of my life (my tri color male 😔) last Friday. I’m still deep in grieving but I wanted to see what cavalier rescues are all out there.
I know about Cavalier USA, and the one based out of Alabama I believe.
But are there others? Not for now, but for the future when we are looking to add another.

Tomorrow will be a week since I made the hardest decision to put my soul dog to sleep. He had an aggressive form of cancer, and there was nothing we could do. He was still wagging his tail, eating his favorite foods with his favorite people, and I held him while it happened bawling my eyes out. I can accept what happened, I promised myself I wouldn’t let him suffer. He was struggling to breathe, and uncomfortable at nights.

But holy fuck am I struggling to breathe now. I want nothing more than to have him again in my arms. I want to be able to see his tail wag, and hear his little bark, and his whines during treat time. I want to be able to see him sitting next to me outside while we enjoy the breeze. I want him back so he could lay next to my head again and snore in my ear all night long. I want to carry him up the stairs again because his little legs were too tired. I want to feel his little tongue while he licked my face. I miss him so much.

Life isn’t fair. I have to be ok for my other dogs, but something in me just wants to give up. I just want him back.

I just lost one of our cavaliers yesterday. He was diagnosed with tonsillary squamous cell carcinoma last year.
He lasted longer than the oncologist said he would, which him extremely thankful for.

But he was my soul dog, and I just want to pet him again and hold him. I don’t know how I’m supposed to go back to normal life after this.