A night at the emergency vet

I'm sitting in the waiting room at the emergency vet, waiting to find out if the fluid in her abdomen is blood and whether we're looking at a tumor. I'm not sure what to think about all of this, Honey being a part of the family, our child.

It's numbing and leaves me thinking about Benny and Amstel — the two dogs we had for years — how hard it was when they died.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. I have to believe she's going to be fine. What else am I supposed to believe.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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