Jen and I stay hours and hours, often more than 10 hours a day... and sometimes in the night. Jen has trouble trying to not fall asleep all night, so she takes me and we keep each other awake.
The horses actually do a lot. At the exact time of this picture, a baby horse is ripping off his mom's infusion tubes.
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| It's only midnight... this is gonna be a loooong night |
Between 2:30 and 3:30 we took a small break to rest... Ron (Jen's friend) stayed up and checked in the horses during that time.
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| Campus at 2:15 AM |
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| 3AM Great, now I am wide awake! |
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| Deciding what medecine to inject is hard... at 4AM |
Genta has liquid coming out of her mouth...
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| Uh oh... this can't be a good sign :( |
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| A naso-gastric tube |
So Jen put a tube up her nose, and somehow the tube went down into Genta's stomach (horses are not very smart if their breathing system goes to their food system... but whatever). They aspirated the tube and 3 bucketful of green juice came out! Yuck!
After this we went out again so I could get some fresh air. All this maybe doesn't bug Jen, but I am not becoming a vet and I don't like so much all these disgusting things...
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| This straw looks soooooo comfortable right now! |
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| Campus at 4:30 AM |
We can't stay long away from the horses. There is always an infusion bag to change, a lidocaine syringe to refill, an antibiotic to inject. Not to mention a foal eating her mom's catheter or a recurrent bleeding...
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| Back to the clinic. |
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| Jen changing refilling the syringe |
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| Daylight came back! There is hope! |
At 7AM, the shift is officially over! But that's when everybody arrives, so we can take heart rate, temperature and peristalsis of all the horses before the doctor's round at 8. And then all the drug administrations, potential surgeries... Jen, I want to go home! I don't care about all this!
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| 7AM: Zzzzzzz.... |
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