Did you go get a tetenus? The worse is getting a dog to hold still while you tape his mouth shut to give him charcoal, now that's a pain!!!!!!!!!! I would rather be in surgery anyday, lol. Of course where I worked we pretty much did routine procedures such as spays and neuters, tail docking etc. I guess my favorite surgery was the nail. The doc could not find it in the gut, after we had taken out what he thought was all the food, well about 30 minutes later and risk of infection he found it. The funny thing is that we could see it on the x ray which we were studying while doing the surgery, but it just took him forever. That night was the longest I had to hold the hemostats in the air!!!! My arm was killing me. So I guess I am lucky I have never had to help with a massive life threatening surgery, just the easy ones which I enjoy. After he took it out, he made me compare the size of it to the x ray, lol, he wanted to make sure he got it! It did cause a laugh though and the dog quickly recovered.

Hope today goes better for you.