I've Officially Been Called In

[bonosloveslave]

I'm sitting here waiting for a colic case to come in (a horse with a bad belly ache) - probably be here at school for most of the night

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

cheers darlin'

 

[bonosloveslave]

You drunken fool you

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

that i am, you working fool.

 

[Angela Harlem]

so what do you do with a horse that has colic?

hoist it on your shoulder and walk around firmly patting its back?



sorry lol...

seriously though, what do you do? there's not much for treating it in humans.

 

[bonosloveslave]

We give it strong drugs to see if that helps. If it doesn't, it pretty much means surgery, usually cuz they have a twisted gut.


Now we have a sick baby foal coming in too. Probably will have to put it to sleep though, the owner has no money.

 

[Mr. BAW]

Mrs. BAW carries me on her shoulders when I get colic....


that's a hefty job..

Hello Ladies!

 

[Angela Harlem]

I'm sorry to hear about the foal. I hope it turns out ok.




Mr BAW

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

aw, poor babies

 

[Salome]

We give it strong drugs to see if that helps.

ah yes, in that case I think I also have a colic somewhere

 

[bonosloveslave]

What a night Didn't finish up til alomst 5 a.m. and had to start morning treatments at 7. I live a 1/2 hour away so I decided to sleep in a stall. We have nice padded ones for horse anesthesia recovery so I got a cat nap for about 1.5 hours. Then I still didn't leave school til 11:30 a.m. Babies are alot of work - yes baby foal is still here. He is leaking urine into his abdomen, still trying to figure out if he tore his bladder or something in his kidney. Colicky mare is doing much better today.

I'll be in bed by 7 pm tonight

 

[Screaming Flower]

bls you have a cool job.

 

[bonosloveslave]

Hot is more like it - for the foal stuff we have to be really really clean so I have to wear my street clothes, coveralls over that, and then a Tyvek jumpsuit, to make a nice cozy 3 layers in 90 degree weather with no airconditioning in the barn. Add that to actually wrestling with a 120 lb foal for 2 hours at 3 a.m., and I was melting by the end

Thank God for my 2 awesome classmates coming in to do my treatments for me this afternoon

I seriously gotta get to bed

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

*tucks in beth