The Vet Of A Bachelor

🐱 Chapter Five 🐶

"Hello again Doctor (Name)." I heard a woman say as I set out my clothes. "Hello." I said absentmindedly as I looked through my drawers for my reading glasses. I jumped as I heard my office door slam open and watched Shion walk in angrily. "Slow down! Here's the information on the patient go..." I watched as Shion looked shocked at two people I apparently failed to notice in my office. How did I not notice two well dressed people sitting in my office?

"What the hell are you two doing in here? Who are you?" Shion was the first to speak after I failed find my voice. Who wouldn't be speechless after realizing two people casually made themselves comfortable in my office. "This is Doctor (Last Name)'s private office how did you get in? No one has access to this office, not even our janitors." Shion asked angrily. "Ah- Shion this is Jaehee Kang, she brought in the white persian cat I worked on yesterday; Elizabeth the Third." I said picking the lint off of my suit jacket. "Doctor (Name) I am so sorry! Your door was left unlocked yesterday and Mr. Han refused to wait anywhere other than your office." The woman from before cried as she walked in with a security guard. So this is what she wanted to tell me. "It's fine, you two may leave." I said waving my hand at the two in the doorway.

"I'm very sorry Mr. Han but whatever it is you came for will have to wait until I'm out of surgery." I said taking the file from Shion. "I understand that you are busy Doctor (Last Name) but it appears we have a date scheduled for this Friday." Mr. Han said standing from his chair. "A date?" I asked as I tied back my hair. "Yes it seems my father bought you at a charity auction." He said with a shake of the head. "Alright well I'm currently going to be going into surgery so whatever it is that you wish to discuss can wait until afterwards." I said before Shion shoved another folder containing my schedule into my chest. "Actually no you can't, (Name) has a very busy schedule today so if you want to see her you'll have to wait and schedule an appointment." Shion said as I opened my schedule.

Let's see I have surgery on a cat whose file I haven't fully looked at, from now until noon. Then I have several appointments and a couple of fixes from noon until three, I have to help a chihuahua give birth and after that I have a meeting with some nutritionists for my 'Cakes For Cats' project bakery. Well this is going to be a fairly busy day.

"That is understandable. I just wanted to inform you of the fact that this date will not be a romantic one. Please give my assistant Doctor (Name)'s contact information so I may further the details of our meeting." Mr. Han said and I nodded while still looking over my schedule. "W-Wait a minute..." I mumbled while looking at the time gap for a flight I will apparently be taking. "Why am I taking a plane to the meeting with the nutritionists?" I asked as Shion walked over. "Well you will be meeting the nutritionists in Aimargues France." She said and I scrunched up my nose. "No, this isn't right. I wanted to meet with the local Royal Canin nutritionist branch, not the head branch." I said closing the file. "(Name) you already cleared your schedule for the next two days to go to this meeting, you can't just cancel it because you don't want to travel!" Shion cried as I put on my lab coat. "It's not that I don't want to travel Shion, it's too late for me to find a house sitter that knows how to handle three dogs, a chimpanzee and four cats!" I said rubbing my temples. "You know what, I'll figure something out. Wrap things up with Mr. Han and his assistant, I need to get to surgery." I said grabbing my keys and walking out of the room.

"(Name)! (Name) get back here!" Shion yelled as I walked down to the surgery wing of the hospital. "Doctor (Name)!" I heard someone else call and looked up to see Chyo running towards me in her scrubs. "Doctor we need you in surgery now, the bone has moved since the last time you looked at the cat!" She said grabbing my arm.

I stumbled over my feet as she dragging me towards the surgery wing. "Get a regional anesthetic injected into that cat's throat now!" I said walking into the room. "You said the bone moved? How far did it move?" I asked grabbing some gloves. "It's going lower, its just an inch and a half but it still moved." She said and I nodded.

Why didn't I operate before? She came in last week and all I did was give her an X-Ray and some painkillers? What the hell was I thinking?

"She's sedated Doctor." Nelly said. "Good, place her on the table and open the Super-Fine point dressing scissors, a number three and four scalpel with Number Ten and Twelve blades and Two Forceps." I said grabbing my face guard. "Yes Doctor." Everyone said as the nurses rushed to grab the materials I just listed. I turned to the cubby and shimmied off my lab coat. "We're ready." Nelly said and I looked back in surprise. "Well aren't you all getting fast." I laughed grabbing the scrubs and shimmying them over my clothes. "Okay everyone, we've done this before we will do it again and it will be a success." I said putting on my mask and face guard.

"Yes Doctor."

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"... And she will need to take Tramadol every eight hours for the next then days. You can schedule a follow up appointment with our secretary Ayano who is near the front entrance." I said signing the prescription and handing her the green slip of paper. "When will she be up?" asked as she held in her harms. "Give her about an hour, if it takes longer bring her back, I'll be here until six O'clock tonight." I said looking down at my agenda. "Okay thank you Doctor (Name)." She said smiling and walking away.

As sad as it is I have to admit that didn't know the cat's name until after the surgery. This morning was a bit of a blur and I didn't handle how fast everything was going as well as I should have. Then again I never handle morning like this as well as I should, which is pretty sad seeing as they happen often, and I doubt I made a very good impression on Mr. Han and Jaehee this morning either.

"(Name)?"

I looked up from my agenda at Shion who was holding out a coffee for me. "You okay? You look like you just diagnosed a cat with cancer." She said and I cringed. That's not something any doctor, especially a vet, wants to ever have to do. "Don't say that." I said and taking the coffee from her hand. "And yeah, I'm fine. Just a bit overwhelmed with work and the fact I can barely keep my head on." I sighed taking a sip of the warm drink. "Well, if it makes you feel any better you got an amazing business offer from Jumin Han of C&R International." She said smiling at me. "It might make the whole 'Cake's for Cat's Bakery' Idea easier to execute." She said and I shrugged as my gaver went off. "Tell me about it later, I still have patients who need my attention." I said handing her back the coffee. "I'll call you later, and I reschedueled your meeting with Royal Canin for the day after tomorrow so you can get some down time. I can see that you're stressed (Name) so maybe it's time for you to stop taking on so many projects and resign as a doctor?" She asked and I shook my head. "I understand your concern Shion but I can't do that, my career's only getting started." I said as my pager went off again. I tore it from my waistband and looked at it to see the room number blinking across the screen. I closed my eyes and shrugged.

"If I'm lucky I'll retire by seventy... Or die of a stroke."