predicament

Coco Varrone is more than a special pet. This Golden Retriever is her owner’s constant comfort and helper. Coco came into Susan Varrone’s life to listen. Susan is hearing impaired and epileptic. Coco is trained to let Susan know if someone is at the door, to investigate an unusual noise, and to stay with Susan when she is not feeling well. When Coco spent many days at GVS gravely ill from suspected poisoning, Susan was faced with thinking about a life without her companion. Susan also had to find a way to effectively communicate with the GVS staff. Through the help of GVS Client Services Manager, Lea Custer, who is fluent in American Sign Language, Susan was able to navigate through some tough days. Fortunately, so did Coco. She made an amazing recovery few professionals expected, and is happy to be of service once again with her beloved family.

Wonder if the client was charged for the additional assistance or did Lea just happen to already know American Sign Language.  To be given the title of GVS Client Services Manager implies an overhead that someone if not everyone having to pay; even if needing to go outside the clinic seeking the assistance needed.

In other words,  glad someone fluent in American Sign Language was  available immediately.  Once in place, just the fact COCO LIVED, helped BIG TIME!

Was money ever an issue?  Too little information.  Being a referral clinic, most cases that would have been a financial issue have already been screened out by the referring veterinarian.  Estimates before arriving pretty much insist on complete workups up front, even if not needed for the reason referred.  That's pretty much where a client needing assistance is best served; able presented an estimate reflecting more accurate prognosis even if already a diagnosis.

The decision at that point is pretty much a thumbs up or down or extremely frustrating scene for all involved; most especially a pet trained the owner physically depended on,  already having been isolated by her  hearing impairment. 

 Could it have made difference?  Only if not able finding someone, if needing one, when already knowing someone who's only temporarily unavailable.

 Helen Keller, both blind and deaf, believed her hearing loss to be the most isolating.




 - Anatole France

—Synonyms


1. Predicament, dilemma, plight, quandary refer to unpleasant or puzzling situations. Predicament and plight stress more the unpleasant nature, quandary and dilemma the puzzling nature of the situation. Predicament and plight are sometimes interchangeable; plight, however, though originally meaning peril or danger, is seldom used today except laughingly: When his suit wasn't ready at the cleaners, he was in a terrible plight. Predicament, though likewise capable of being used lightly, may also refer to a really crucial situation: Stranded in a strange city without money, he was in a predicament. Dilemma, in popular use, means a position of doubt or perplexity in which one is faced by two equally undesirable alternatives: the dilemma of a hostess who must choose between offending her anti-drinking guests or disappointing those who expected cocktails. Quandary is the state of mental perplexity of one faced with a difficult situation: There seemed to be no way out of the quandary.


Coco "Unless one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened."