January 29th

And that poring rain changed into a huge thunderstorm last night, due to which there was had been a black-out for the whole island > so lots of problems with time-switches which were de-regulated. All patients were still alive this morning, and the outdoor-cat “Pinky”, which had spent the night in the Surgery (because his place was occupied by “Emily” [which had to change because of the dog-fox]), had behaved perfectly well and for the first time used the inside of the litter-box i.s.o. half in – half out !! The new Dog Fox is trying to sit straight now and then, and has at such moments quite an attentive look. The injured eye of the red Buzzard is clearing-up. Changing the bandages of the first Buzzard we discovered another fracture in the humerus > close to the shoulder with lots of dead tissue. So strictly speaking the prognosis had changed now into “infaust”. The head-injury of the Dog Fox we could treat with Dermisol-cream. The same happened with the leg-injuries of the Yellow-legged Gull. At 9.13 a.m. a phone-call from Ágia Varvára that they had over there an injured “geráki” > so we went for a ride and picked-up the bird. In our hands the bird was at 10.42 and it was a BUZZARD > so see over there. After we had discussed the situation of the first Buzzard in detail, she received at 2.25 p.m. an injection, whereafter it was finished 1 minute later . . . . !! At 6 p.m. a phone-call from vet Myrsíni Tourvalí in Mytiléne that she had an Hedgehog, which she is planning to send tomorrow by coach. Seems to be covered with flees and with an body-weight of only a good 700 gram > of course this is much and much too light for this time of the year.