[ballingall]

An important lesson MGoM- and it means you still keep your goats, so it has to be worth it.


I've also learnt my OH has a great knack for getting taken to hospital just when I am needed with the goats and can't go with him. 



Beth

[Anke]

I have also done laprascopic AI  , but chickened out when asked if I wanted to have a look down those tubes  .... I could never be a vet!
 
Ahemmm, and I also contibuted to the probable nation-wide rise in car insurance permiums.... as I learned that flooded roads and cars don't like each other... and generally the cars loose (but it is covered by insurance ), and seeing all these pictures of floating cars on the internet... I was not alone!

[tizaala]

Have learned that when you send a message saying     "we are not here Saturday"  the message will be ignored, the people will turn up anyway, and expect civility, you will have to re-arrange all your plans to fit round them .

[Lesley Silvester]

I have also done laprascopic AI  , but chickened out when asked if I wanted to have a look down those tubes  .... I could never be a vet!
 

I would have looked. I once had to have a colonoscopy (I don't recommend it) and was asked if I would like to look down the tube.  I therefore claim to be one of the few people who have looked up their own bum.

[tizaala]

Isn't that how you got your bad neck ?

[Anke]

I have also done laprascopic AI  , but chickened out when asked if I wanted to have a look down those tubes  .... I could never be a vet!
 

I would have looked. I once had to have a colonoscopy (I don't recommend it) and was asked if I would like to look down the tube.  I therefore claim to be one of the few people who have looked up their own bum.

   Oh no..... not my cup of tea at all... I cannot do blood, vomit and other bodiliy fluids at the best of times (I did manage to handle the children when they were small, but when the dog is sick - no way)... I had to stop watching ER and CSI, because there was just too much of it... as I said never could have been a doctor or nurse (animal or human)...
 
PS.: I learned to inject animals, but have to steel myself to do it... still likely to pass out when I get jagged

[Lesley Silvester]

Isn't that how you got your bad neck ?

Could be.   

Anke, I've worked in care so have cleaned up snot, sick and sh**, dressed infected wounds, picked noses (using a cotton bud), and watched as yards and yards of green slimy ribbon gauze was pulled from a hole in my dad's leg (it wasn't green when it went in) and could do the job myself.  The only thing I struggle with is phlegm - when someone is coughing it up, I'm reaching for the nearest bucket.

[sokel]

I don't do needles in people, I have always been the same . I am fine once it's in but no way can I watch it go in
 I can quite happily inject any animal even using the big microchipping needles
human blood I can deal with but anything else can clean  upin an emergency  but nearly gag
I can clean anything up after any animal though

[MAK]

Sadley I have learnt that there are a large number of goats on the "Giveaway" section of Angloinfo.com . I have learnt that despite the OH wanting to get some goats the cost of secure fencing around the veg plot is too much.

[melodrama]

I have learned that things don't always go to plan and how to pick myself up, dust myself off and keep moving forward x

[Lesley Silvester]

I think things rarely go to plan, but yours is a good way to look at it.

Needles?  I can stick them in people or animals.  Not sure if I coud stick them in myself though.