I just brought Greenbean back from the vet from what was a particularly traumatic visit, both for her and me, but more so for me. She needed a blood sample drawn, for a rabies serum titer test to be sent to the single European Union approved lab in the U.S. She needs this in order to avoid any quarantine time once we move to England. They take this sample from the jugular, they needed to shave her neck, they kept me in the room to help keep her calm, but they had a hard time accessing the vein (she is a little chunky and the fat gets in the way), they shaved a small part of her arm to try there unsuccessfully, the vet apologized profusely, it didn't normally take this long to find a vein and draw a sample. I had to leave the room, Greenie wasn't hissing and she wasn't growling the way she normally does when in distress, but she was whining and crying in a sickening way I've never heard her do. I started to feel nauseous and light headed (my poor baby!). I left the room and they were able to get the sample. She's fine now but my nerves are rattled. I need to wait until the sample is processed, if it's not a good sample, she'll have to go through this again. Fortunately, the sample was good. I had thought the vet would be responsible for the handling of the sample, packing and shipping it off to the aforementioned lab. The vet did pack it up in a cooler with ice. I then found out that I need to take care of shipping the sample off. It needs to be shipped overnight, I used FedEx, a little expensive when it's a box mostly full of heavy ice packs. Now to wait for the results.