Saturday, March 26, 2011

“Cry unto Him when ye are in your fields, yea, over all your flocks

On Saturday March 5, I,along with Tom and Brock came across this. I knew what it was(prolapse vagina,)but I didn't feel confident in fixing it. So we went home and left her. I didn't sleep, I went through what I learned at school, I checked on line to find more. As I still lost sleep. On Tuesday I had enough. Went to Tom and told him I had the desire to save her and hopefully the calf also. He said I should do it. So I got a hold of Steve and Cody to see who could go up the soonest. Thursday morning before Cody got to my house I asked Tom for a priesthood blessing. I still wasn't sure of what I was doing and wanted some guidance. Got to the ranch and TRIED to bring the horses in (A story that needs a few cuss words, so save it for another time). We decided to take the quads. Cody took some time to gather a few tools that might be use full. We went to the mill to see if she was on water. She was not so we split up. Cody found her on the east fence real fast. He called me (for all you older cousins, can you believe we call each other on cell phones and work out problems before the day gets away from us)and I headed over to him. I flushed out a coyote, good size one. We tried to push her to the gate. We tried to push a few others with her to the gate. We tried to let her have water then push her. We were burning day light and she didn't care. So we use one of Cody's tools. We decided if she won't trail in we will load her. Cody grabs some more tools and we head back out to her. He gets a chain around her neck and we use a come along to change her mind. The hay helped a bit also. We got her back and put her in the squeeze. I have got to say I have never worked with a more gentler cow. Thankful my first experience of this kind was with a kind, kind. The first thing I did was call my teacher from Kansas and make sure I could preg test before fixing her. I didn't want to put undo pressure on her. He said yes, so I reached in and wow. All legs, a hoof and a big head. All facing the proper way. Cody went a head and felt so he would know what it was like. Made my heart skip a beat. I also felt the artery that feeds the womb and it was pumping just great. As we working with her the replacement heifers came in. No big deal except they were in the wrong pasture. Also we had someone else's heifer in on us and this would be a perfect time to pull her off. I called Dad and he made a call to Wade Prescott to see if he could stop by to see if it was his. So now to push that back in and sew it. Every sight I went on made it sound simple, but no pictures of the stitches. I had an idea of putting it back in but the sewing was nerve recking to me. Started to push and it was tough. Me and Cody had to trade places, I didn't have the strength. After we got it in we decided all we needed to do it push up toward the tail. It just pops in if you push toward that empty space. So there, if you are ever caught in this predicament you know where to push. I put in some stitches, I now know they were cheesy. Cody drove home and I went to Vernon. Her bag still wasn't tight so I knew I still had time to sleep at home and not the ranch. This was also work weekend so I knew I had lots of help watching over her. Friday morning Steve was driving up so I met him there. The stitches didn't work and the vagina was out again. I called the vet to see if he would do it, then I could see it first hand. He wasn't answering. Then to a great relief up drove Wade Prescott, I asked if he had done it and he said a few times. He checked the heifer and it was one he was looking for. He would go get his trailer and bring back the tools needed to sew her up. Yea! He did a fine job. Yes that is mule tape. He couldn't find the right stuff so he just grabbed something. Now the rest of the time consisted of me spending nights at the ranch and driving over to Vernon for a shower and food. Until the truck broke down then my dad drove up and gave me his truck. I needed her to have it, because I had a meeting in Eager on the 21st that I really wanted to go to. Plus Cody was driving up to go with me and I really didn't want him to miss it either. Of course her bag had been full for a week. I would throw her some hay and then she would let me feel her left side and I would feel the baby move. My teacher called out of the blue one day and told me to feed her half of what I had been feeding her because she was already under to much pressure. See now you know why I love that school so much. They really do care about their students and what is happening. I did pray lot. Sat out on the hay stack and read books, took walks, and prayed some more. I didn't know how it would end, I just wanted to learn even if it was learn from mistakes. I just trusted the Lord and what He might have in store for me. On Saturday I broke, you need to under stand the conditons Ginny was living in for the last week to check the cow every two hours 24 hours a day. she had no electricity, no lights because someone stole the kerosene lamps from the ranch house. when the sun went down she could not even read.She also had coyotes yelping all night knowing a cow was about to give birth. All she had was a flash light and her phone. she called Saturday all freaked out, her phone was about to go dead and thats when I called Guy and asked him to go get Ginny and make her go back to Vernon.Tom. my dad came and got me and made me sleep in Vernon. Sunday morning we went early to the ranch and still no action. I could feel the baby but it was light. I went to church and then after that we loaded her up and took her to Vernon so dad could watch her while I went to the meeting. Monday morning we were greeted with this:



Her bag of water. We tied her off and Cody cut the stitches. We left for the meeting and within an hour I got a call that we had a calf.



I could have never done this without support from my husband, Cody, family, ranching community and the Lord.

The calf came on Tom's birthday so of course I named her Thomasina. But I like to call her Sina Miracle. Seen a Miracle. Hope this doesn't happen often but sure hope the Lord helps me endure more miracles.