First Paycheck and Happy Mother's Day

This is Dr. Allison writing. I got my first paycheck this week! It was likely the hardest-earned paycheck that I will have ever received. I was happy, although I briefly noted that over a quarter of it was eaten by taxes. After removing a six pound fatty tumor from a lab yesterday, our staff deserves to be rewarded for their efforts. I got my first true paycheck when I was sixteen for cleaning kennels and doing the basics at Frey Pet Hospital in Cedar Rapids. I was paid $7/hour. I worked for over a year, asked for a raise, and then got $7.25/hour. It was better pay than what I have been getting since making a vet hospital from scratch. The pay for that was more akin to free room and board that I received as a kid for working on our farm. (:

Happy Mother's Day! We appreciate you!