Happy Animal Stories from New Orleans

I recieved an email from my sister-in-law containing an update on their status. A neighbor was allowed in and reported that my brothers house had sustained flood damage to his first floor but no roof damage. They will be heading back to see for themselves this week.
In her message she told the following story. My brother, a urologist, had gone back to his hospital for three days to prepare for the return of the residents to New Orleans. Here is her tale:

Also on Sunday, one of the nurses who had kenneled her
4 prize-winning Himalayan cats in the Hudson Street
parking lot/kennel approached David very worried about
her favorite male. He was in urinary retention and
could David help? Well, heck, why not give it a try?
Since no animals were allowed in the operating room,
under the watchful eye of a National Guardsman with
his handy M-16, they made the cat comfy on a bench at
the entrance to the parking lot/kennel area then
gathered a surgical team consisting of an
anesthesiologist who sedated the cat, a nurse
anesthesist who monitored the cat's vital signs, a
scrub nurse, and David, the feline urologist. He
said it was tricky but he was able to insert a
catheter into that teeny little feline urethral
opening and ultimately relieve the kitty's retention.


That evening stopping by the kennel to do evening
rounds on his feline patient, an elderly woman
(family of a hospitalized patient) spied him and
asked, "Doctor, would you mind looking at my parakeet?
We have been here a week and he just doesn't look
right. I think he's depressed here among all these
noisy cats and dogs." Through the bars of the cage
David took a look at "Happy" and thought he was just
as perky as any bird he'd ever seen in his life. But
he sat down and talked with the lady for several
minutes and when he got up to leave, she thanked him
for his time and said she thought "Happy" was already
starting to look better.

On Sunday, a stray dog came limping along in front of
the hospital, one of the nurses brought the animal to
the attention of a general surgeon who found that she
had a mammary tumor...since he had no human patients,
he took her to surgery (a-hem...do dogs trump cats at
East Jefferson General Hospital?) and removed the
benign tumor. During recovery, the nurse fell in love
with her canine patient and took her home as soon as
she was able to leave the hospital....giving new
meaning to the term "Lucky Dog".l

 

thanks for posting, that is so nice,

 

Those stories are so sweet. I'm glad the stray dog found a new home.

 

Those are great stories! It's nice to hear some good news!