I've been dealing with a crick in my neck that i've been suffering
with since Sunday.

So this morning I wake up in a lot of pain, and yet I dragged my butt
into the car and drove to work.

Then I see down the busy street I'm on, two people jaywalking (on a
busy street during morning rush hour, the pieces of &*%@).  The three
cars in front of me are slowing down.  Suddenly the car in front of me
stops so i slam on the brakes.

Luckily, I didn't hit him.  I let out a breath and think

'Whew!  Well at least I didn't......'

(SCREEEEEECH!!!!! BAM!!!!!!!)

Yep, I got rear-ended.  Fortunately since my foot was on the brake, i
instinctly pushed on it harder and didn't hit the guy in front of
ME.

The guy behind me and I pulled out and over to the side of the road.
When I get out, he asks if i'm ok and he says he was rear-ended and
pushed into me.
We look around and the third car is nowhere to be seen.
great..........

Yes my neck hurts, however since it was hurting anyway, it was kinda
hard to tell if was from sleeping wrong or from the accident.  We
called the police, since it was a hit and run, and after an hour and
fifteen minutes I see three police cars pull up in front of the
apartment building across the street.  They were there on another
matter and i had to shout to get there attention.  They knew nothing
about a call for a hit and run, but one of the officers (who looked
like he had better things to do) took our info and filed a police
report.

So i finally got to work, about two hours late, and tried to go about
my business.  I took 4 ibuprofen, but as the day went on my neck got
my and more uncomfortable.  It got to the point where it felt like
someone had stuck an ice pick into my neck and broken off the tip.

It also felt like i had ants crawling up my spinal cord in my neck.
It was more uncomfortable and getting more painful.  So in a sense
even though my neck was messed up to begin with, getting rear-ended
make it worse.

Sooooooo, after a long day at work, i go and sit for 45 min in traffic
and head to the doctor. Now i know how the animals feel when the
doctors palpate for pain and the dog cries out.

"Relax your head, does this hurt?"
"Ow!"
"Okay, how about this?"
"OWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!"

The doctor said i was suffering from muscle spasms in my neck and told
me to use Icy Hot, a heating pad and prescribed me some muscle
relaxers.  She also said that i needed to take some time off of work.
I told her i needed to work, since i needed the money.  She then
reccommended i take the day off tomorrow.  It would leave me Sat and
Sun to rest my neck and i should be better by Monday.  She also warned
me that the meds might make me loopy and I shouldn't drive while on
them.

So I have a doctor's note and tomorrow morning I need to call Dr. S
and let him know what's up.  Everyone knew that i was in a car
accident and that my neck was hurting.  I have a tube of Icy Hot and i
bought a heating pad for tonight.

Urgh.................

Oh and you know what the really weird part of the whole day was?

While the police officer was taking down the info for the report,
suddenly this dog appears out of nowhere and walks up to the officer
and then to me, wagging his tail.

Huh?  I grab a slip leash from my car and slip it onto him.  I give
him a once over.  The dog is a Pointer mix, not neutered, and not even
a collar.  But he was quite friendly.

Even the officer thought he was cute.  After we filed the report he
walked around to a few of the houses and asked about the dog.  One of
the neighbors said that the dog had been running around the
neighborhood for months, but had never seen an owner or anything.

Oh great.  So this dog could be someone's pet that just runs around
the neighborhood, or could just be a stray.

Well I couldn't leave him there, and the officer didn't want to have
to call Animal Control and have him taken to a shelter.  So I called
work and asked if i could bring him in.

Five minutes later I'm shoving this dog (who btw is also covered in
fleas) into my backseat.  The dog also tugged at the leash when i
tried to walk him.  The poor dog probably had never been leash
trained.  He also started shaking and had his tail between his legs
when i brought him in.  Poor guy.

I sent a fecal sample off to the lab. gave him some deworming pills,
and one of the groomers gave him a good bath and put on Frontline to
kill any remaining fleas,

The next step is of course to find this owner.  The dog isn't
malnourished and from his personality, he seems to really like
people.  So it is possible that this dog has an owner.  But if he
does, it's certainly an owner who doesn't seem to really care about
the dog.  No collar, no license or ID, no microchip and the dog isn't
even neutered.

So my plan is to make some flyers with the dogs picture and post them
around the neighborhood where i found him and see if he has an
owner.

It's a weird position to be in right now, cause for all I know, this
dog got out of the yard and was just wandering about.  And his owner
might be worried sick cause their dog didn't come home tonight.

However, on the other hand, what was I supposed to do?  Just let the
dog go and run off without a leash, collar or ID?  And if I didn't do
anything, the police officer was going to call Animal Control.  The
officer was actually glad that i was a vet tech and was willing to
take him to my clinic to at least get him checked out and get him off
the streets.

So purrs that I find the dog's owner and if not, purrs that this dog
can find a home.  And also purrs for my neck.

Ugh, i'm gonna go sleep now.