Doctor Fell is the veterinarian at the North Waterloo Veterinary Hospital, who treated my beloved 14-year-old “puppy” named Penny. Doctor Fell is very professional and obviously loves her chosen vocat... Read More
Doctor Fell is the veterinarian at the North Waterloo Veterinary Hospital, who treated my beloved 14-year-old “puppy” named Penny. Doctor Fell is very professional and obviously loves her chosen vocation. She has an excellent examination-table side manner and was very calming to both her canine and her human charges.
When we welcome dogs into our lives, we do so in the knowledge that their life’s span is usually only a fraction of ours as human; and final tearful goodbyes are merely biding their time. This was not that time; but at 14 years, it could have been.
I am particularly grateful for the amount of time Doctor Fell spent explaining options and possible scenarios in sufficient technical detail, but recognising and giving appropriate focus to being reassuring to the possible underlying human emotions involved.
At the end of the visit, I asked Doctor Fell if she knew of her eponymous Nursery Rhyme. The Mother Goose version of that rhyme refers to a child being afraid of the doctor as she suspects something unpleasant is about to happen.
Here it is:
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why – I cannot tell;
But this I know, and know full well,
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.
In retrospect, I realize that the ethos of the original piece was the opposite to our visit. So, Penny and I put our heads together to remedy that. We think this is more in line with our experience:
I really like thee, Doctor Fell
The reason why’s not hard to tell
When I was sick, you made me well
That’s why I like thee, Doctor Fell
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