The Very Long, No Good Week...

This has been a very long week. And it's about to wrap up and start all over again. With hopefully less exhaustion. I can't think of the phrase I want to describe how busy I was...something about catching up with myself. All I can think of is 'their heads on fire and their asses a catchin' ' from that Charlie Daniels song.

So Monday, there were two horse calls on the book but two more got added on. DE didn't feel that with his bum knee that he would be up for horse calls no matter how simple. So he did my morning appointments and I headed to all the extents of our practice range.
The first call was vaccinations and floating teeth on two nice horses with nice owners. Then I went and revisited the choked horse from the night before. I was there three hours and felt that when I left I had managed to relieve the choke. (Sadly, the horse either wasn't relieved or rechoked by the next day. CB euthanized it.) Then I ran back to the office to change my clothes; I was covered with snot, diet and blood. Then I saw a pony that looked like he had broken his ankle. Unfortunately, they didn't have electricity for X-rays but fortunately I think the pony had a contracted tendon. Then finally to Ohio to check out skin issues on a horse.

Skin Issues on Said Horse

Tuesday...I was super busy with morning appointments and then went and cut a DA.

Wednesday was another long day. I was still dealing with a Basset Hound I had hospitalized. We started a barium study which by the end of the day looked very suspicious. I did surgery in the morning then I randomly broke my tooth on a tootsie roll. It was already chipped but seriously broke in half. It was a baby tooth and I knew it needed to just be pulled out. I called a dentist that was recommended and within an hour was in the chair and got the tooth pulled. $133. Not bad.
Then I pulled health papers on some goats. It was really late when I finally got home.

Thursday, it was decided not to take the Bassett to surgery. He was running around jumping on people. How can you take that to surgery?
I did some appointments and then headed out for more calls. I put in a prolapsed uterus and it was awful. I had to change my clothes in the milk house. Then I checked a pony mare that had a cute little foal. This mare was wonderful and her foal was super cute!! Then I checked on the mare without her mare parts. Then into Ohio for health papers. Another long day.

Friday I did some health papers in the morning before having a pretty slow afternoon. Slow enough to get all my charts written up!!

Here's to a slower week!!