Roughstock (A Gail Mccarthy Mystery)
“I got through Jim's list of calls in record time, including one unscheduled emergency. Well, it wasn't really an emergency. The client just thought it was.
This particular client, a normally friendly, intelligent woman named Laurie Brown, was absolutely irrational on the subject of her horses. Something as minor as a small scrape was a full-blown disaster in her eyes. Today's emergency was just that one of her Peruvian Pasos had had a fairly standard reaction to the flu shot she'd given him yes...terday, and was running a fever. It took me a good half-hour to reassure her that vaccine reactions like this were almost normal, and a couple of days on bute (horse aspirin) would take care of the problem.
Despite this minor glitch, it was only four o'clock and the thin winter sunlight still lay on the slopes of the mountains when I left the clinic. Another pretty day gone by. I rubbed Blue's head as I drove and he flattened his ears slightly in appreciation. His eyes looked sad, though-their habitual expression these days.MoreLess
This particular client, a normally friendly, intelligent woman named Laurie Brown, was absolutely irrational on the subject of her horses. Something as minor as a small scrape was a full-blown disaster in her eyes. Today's emergency was just that one of her Peruvian Pasos had had a fairly standard reaction to the flu shot she'd given him yes...terday, and was running a fever. It took me a good half-hour to reassure her that vaccine reactions like this were almost normal, and a couple of days on bute (horse aspirin) would take care of the problem.
Despite this minor glitch, it was only four o'clock and the thin winter sunlight still lay on the slopes of the mountains when I left the clinic. Another pretty day gone by. I rubbed Blue's head as I drove and he flattened his ears slightly in appreciation. His eyes looked sad, though-their habitual expression these days.MoreLess
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