Bound (The Grandor Descendant Series Book 3) by Bell Stoires Read Free Book Online

take a TPR: temperature, pulse and respiration rate. Ari found this more difficult than she thought it would be. She wasn’t use to using her stethoscope, and struggled initially to even hear the heart beating. Dr Fellow’s response to this was to suggest she make sure it was turned on.
     
    “They turn on an off?” asked Ari, when the vet had walked away.
     
    “Yea, just rotate the head,” said Chris, shaking his head as he laughed. 
     
    After that Dr Fellow had showed them how to give sub cutaneous injections, something she found much easier, and finally they topped off the day with Chris being allowed to take blood from a greyhound’s jugular vein. So far in their course they hadn’t really practiced any of these core skills, and it was a nice change to be able to interact with animals that were still alive, as opposed to ones that they were examining on a slab.
     
    They had just gathered their bags and were leaving the clinic for the day, when the familiar jingle of the bells at the front reception door rang.
     
    “Can someone help me? I hit this fox with my car and…” said a woman’s frantic voice, ringing out through the empty reception area, “Hello? Is there anyone there?”
     
    It was just before 6pm and most of the staff had gone home for the evening, leaving the reception area empty. At 5.30pm, the day clinic became an emergency centre, at which point the staff, vets and nurses, would hand over to those relieving their shift. At the woman’s plea for help, both Chris and Ari looked around, checking to see if anyone else had heard her. No one else was around.
     
    “Where are you going?” asked Ari, grabbing Chris by the hand and stopping him.  
     
    “We have to help her,” he said, pulling Ari with him.
     
    “But we aren’t vets yet. We need to get Dr Fellow or someone else.”
     
    “Ari, its wildlife! Do you think that they are going to drop what they are doing to help save a fox?” Chris asked. “Besides, she said that it had been hit by a car! It needs help now.”
     
    Ari looked back towards the door that would lead them to the hospital and then out to the reception area. Shaking her head, she followed Chris; they could get into serious shit for this.
     
    “Hi,” said Chris, moving towards the woman in the front reception area.
     
    “Thank God,” said the woman.
     
    “Not God, just a vet,” Chris said smiling.
     
    “Student,” Ari coughed under her breath.
     
    “Right, err, well, err… if you would just follow me,” said Chris, leading the breathless woman into one of the consult rooms. “Just pop him down here.”
     
    The woman placed the unconscious fox onto the stainless steel examination table. There were large gashes across its legs, while its paws were badly grazed. A small trickle of blood was coming from one of its nostrils, and the fox took tiny shallow breaths, as if the effort of breathing was costing it greatly.
     
    “Ok, well thank you for bringing it in to us,” said Chris, now holding the consult door open for the woman to leave.
     
    “That’s it? You don’t need anything else from me?” said the woman, now following Chris into the front reception area, leaving Ari alone with the fox.
     
    “Right, good point,” said Chris, “let me just find something for you to fill in so that you can surrender him over to us.”
     
    Back in the consult room, Ari looked sadly at the fox. Though she was not a vet yet, she knew that the fox’s injuries were bad. She was almost certain it would need to be euthanized.  
     
    “Ariana Sol,” a stern voice said from behind her, and Ari turned around to see Dr Fellow walking into the consult room, a surprised look on his face.
     
    Her guilty eyes traced Dr Fellow’s glance and they both looked down at the fox on the examination table.
     
    “We were just leaving and someone brought this fox in… and, and she hit it with her car. We, we, didn’t know what else to,” Ari stammered.
     
    “It’s