by Gillian Hick
‘Excellent job,’ I declared out loud, pulling off the blood-stained drapes. ‘After that one going so nicely, you’ll find the rest of them easy,’ I said to my student, Orla. She smiled, looking relieved. She had completed her first bitch spay with, by the looks of her, less nerves than I, who had merely supervised.
It was hard to believe that in such a short space of time I had gone from supervisee to supervisor and I felt a sense of pride that a student of my own was now setting out on the same path that I had taken. Who knew what the future held in store for either of us?
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