Jelly's day at the vet

Jelly made her annual trip (ok, so it's been more like a year and 4 months) to the clinic today. Since she has been historically hard to handle for blood draws, nail trims, etc. I elected to do everything on one day this year since she has to be sedated for bloodwork anyway. So she got a quick exam then an IV injection to put her almost all the way out. I trimmed her nails, drew her blood, placed and IV catheter and hooked her up to the anesthesia machine, monitoring system, and IV fluids and then we did routine dental radiographs (all good) and a thorough dental cleaning. Here she is getting her dental rads.

Before she woke up from her dental I have her a quick bath (she gets kind of dingy in the garage) and updated her vaccines. Here you can see she is unimpressed with the whole episode.

Normally we like to see the bloodwork before the surgery or dental but for pets that need anesthesia for blood draws it doesn't always work that way. These pets are usually cats. Sadly, mine included. But, she is home now, clean and happy. Her blood tests will be back tomorrow.