Hello, Full Moon.... you explain a lot.

The last few days, I've had some weird and crazy clients. I was just talking about it this afternoon... The clients who make decisions that drive you crazy, the ones who seem to completely disregard the wellbeing of their pets, and the ones who refuse to believe that their pets are hurting. I never put 2 & 2 together... until I was driving home tonight. I saw the full moon - I smiled, thinking it was beautiful, and it was nice to have a bit of light to drive home by. And then I laughed, knowing that my crazy couple of days had just been explained.

I never believed the hype about the full moon, until I worked in the animal ER. The strangest cases come in around the full moon. People act incredibly unpredictably around the full moon. And the full moon seems to draw the crazy people out of the woodwork. Its really an incredible phenomenon. I paid attention to the full moon as a way to prepare for what kind of shift I might have. But now that I'm back in a "regular clinic" I tend to lose track of the lunar cycle. It doesn't have quite as much of an impact on my day to day shifts. But every now and again, I am reminded of the power it seemingly holds.

Maybe it explains the owner who wanted to postpone a non-routine surgery for over a month, even though the dog is in pain. Maybe it explains the owner who keeps letting her broken dog run around the house while she pens the healthy dogs up, and then wonders why he's not healing. Or maybe not. Maybe people are just people, and they need someone to tell them that dogs hurt the same way we do, and reprimand them for repeatedly ignoring doctor's orders. I don't know. But either way, I'm glad I have a long weekend coming up.