Monday, October 16, 2023
This week our local weather will warm up. That will create a window of accommodation for a couple of horseback rides I’m planning. This change is serendipitous luck, as locally and lately, there’s been more overcast and gloom than sunshine. Heralding that upcoming change is this morning’s gorgeous rosy dawn.
Throughout this week, I’ll work in the afternoons and, later, come home in darkness to feed the large animals and medicate my donkey. So far, the news about medicating isn’t good. In the first place, she is refusing medications by avoiding me. That’s not my biggest problem. It’s that syringes tend to become vapor-locked, which locks a plunger and prevents liquids from releasing. My attempts to strong-arm locked plungers had made meds suddenly spurt into the air. Medicating the ground is expensive learning.
I’ve asked both AI and YouTube University how to combat vapor-locking in syringes. Their responses might satisfy typical human medical needs using small syringes but not my veterinary needs with large syringes. The alternative for medicating equines is mash dishes, which my donkey steadfastly refuses to touch, regardless of how attractive they are with grains, pancake syrup, and etc. She smells and/or tastes buried medications. So, I’m stuck managing her meds with syringes.
Anxiety-ridden as this conundrum may be, it too will pass. Because I’ll learn, so help me.
Dear Friends: Enjoy this beautiful start to the week. Diana
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