This Week

This week was fairly interesting.
Monday, I went out to see a sick cow and she turned out to have a twisted stomach (LDA). I haven't cut one for a couple of months at least; the summer transitioned into fall and then into winter very nicely. This one was in a heifer in a tie stall barn so she didn't have many reasons to have one but she did anyway. Monday, luckily was the warmest day of the week and luckily, this twist went very well.

Tuesday, I got in a very pissy mood as I was very busy in the morning, then more appointments got added on and none of the techs wanted to work. It just is so frustrating. You think you have everything all planned out then things go awry so very quickly.

Wednesday, I did surgery and had a high school student shadowing me in the morning. Everything went pretty well that day.

Thursday, it was sort of snowy.

Friday, I was called at 6:30am about a gilt farrowing. Unfortunately, the gilt had been farrowing since about noon the day before when DE pulled the first offending piglet. She hadn't managed to have any on her own. I worked for an hour and was making absolutely no progress so I told the owners to send her to slaughter. A tough choice that I felt bad about but sometimes things aren't going to work out. I absolutely hate farrowings (I always want to call them piggings, too.). I just can't figure them out.
As I was pulling into the pig place, one of our largest dairy clients called for a calving. I would head out there later with a high schooler tagging along. The calf was breech and nothing I did would bring the legs up. I ended up cutting off both rear legs then pulling the calf from around the middle. It was a tough pull and required an episiotomy but we got it out with minimum damage to the cow. I finished afternoon appointments before staying late to help CB cut a dog. Last week, I had cut this dog for a foreign body. The owner started freaking out about mid-week and worrying about it being painful. We later learned some interesting information about the owner. Anyway, when wen took the dog back to surgery on Friday night, her belly was a mess of adhesions and fluid. The surgical site had dehisted and leaked food into the belly. She then started to bleed and then she started to do poorly under anesthesia. We told the owner that euthanasia was probably the best option for her. It was a sad end but for the best. Its a shame these complications occur.

Today, I slept in late and it was fantastic. I woke up and it had snowed and snowed. It snowed on and off all day-probably like 6" total. I did the laundry but very little else. We had pizza day! When Joe and I were dating, we would occasionally have make your own pizza day where we would go to Wal-Mart for premade crusts and toppings. Never just pepperoni either but exciting stuff. This time I chose to make a Thai Chicken Pizza-I mixed rice wine vinegar, lime juice, sracha sauce, ground ginger and garlic powder and soaked some chicken strips for fajitas in it. On to the crust, I used peanut sauce as the sauce then topped with a couple handfuls of cheese. Then I added the seasoned chicken, red onion, broccoli slaw mix (carrots, red cabbage and broccoli), cilantro, green onion and peanuts. Then into the oven for 10-12 minutes. It was really yummy. Very spicy!

I'm off Monday and have to go see the insurance agent again. I'm not looking forward to it. Insurance makes my head hurt. I'm probably also going to get the oil changed in the car and go shopping.