Last day of work. 4 days.
The shipping people are coming Friday between 10 and 12. They are bringing a 28 foot truck with them. I will be VERY interested to see how they make it up and down our narrow, curvy, long, wooded driveway…
This morning I went into Angell Memorial in person to talk with them about this abominable mistake that was made regarding the microchip numbers.
I explained everything to the receptionist lady while I was making her print me out copies of all the forms that the vet had not sent to LA, I had her call in the vet’s technician and had a very long conversation with her about all of this, with the result that she told me we could bring in Fitz any time today and call her and she would quickly take him back and get the blood samples and then personally fedex overnight them to the lab at Kansas State University.
The technician called up Kansas State and alerted them of the problem and they swore up and down that they would do the titres and get the results back on Monday. Even so, Fitz would still not be able to come with us because he would have to take another leptospirosis test on the day that Zaubi and I leave for Aus and wait in LA for the results before he could be shipped.
I got several calls during this whole thing but since I was in conversation I ignored them. Just as I was leaving to go back to work, I got another call from hyperfl0w, who informed me that my server at work was down (agh! disaster!!!). At that point I was so stressed out about all this testing that just couldn’t make myself care.
Right after that, I saw the technician lady running madly out of the hospital and looking around. I figured she was looking for me: she ran over waving a bunch of papers with enormous enthusiasm. It turns out, the results from Fitz’s *second* leptospirosis test had come back, and they were normal! He passed! So it doesn’t matter that the first test he failed since it had the improper microchip number on it anyway!!
So I had Mike rush Fitz into Angell where they are even as I write redoing the other two blood tests. As long as Kansas State gets them back on Monday like they promised, we should be in the free and clear, and all three pets should be able to fly out a week from today as planned.
I can’t say how relieved I am. I am positively disintegrating from stress.
There are several morals of this story:
1) All things happen for a purpose. Even things that appear bad can turn out to be for the best
2) All hope is never lost
3) It’s best to be nice and calm with people even when they have been incompetant
4) If you want results, DO IT YOURSELF (and in person)