A misplaced person.

Calf marking is now tomorrow morning. Gave the cows a bit of hay to, hopefully, encourage them to stay close and handy.
Janette noticed one stayed back. She was lame in her left rear leg. We needed to get her into the yards but she couldn't really put her foot down. The vet could come at 4.30. I went into the vets at 10am and picked up an anti-inflammatory injection. I jabbed her when I got home. It had to be given subcutaneously rather than the usual IM, which is quite straightforward. This meant pinching the skin on her neck and getting the needle just under the skin. Anyhow, she was lying down when I got home, and she just lay there while I jabbed her.
Had to be at the surgeon's at 1.00 to have stitches removed. When I returned, Janette had the cow just about in the yards. The injection had worked.
While waiting for the vet, I rode around on the ride-on. As I turned to face the road, I couldn't help but notice a camper van at the bottom of our drive. The driver got out and I drove down on the mower.
She said, “I seem to be misplaced (lost).”
I said, “most people who end up here, are.”
She blamed her navigator for ending up here. I suggested she sack the navigator and get a GPS. Not so easy as the navigator is her husband who has frontal lobe damage since a fall from a ladder. It seems she humours him by following his directions. I suggested it's probably a good way to meet new people, assured her she could cross the creek and get up the road to Tatong and she went on her way.
The vet's diagnosis is a foot abscess. She roped up the leg and dug down to the abscess to release the pus. A shot of penicllin and we'll wait and see.
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