Report from Wyoming

Our friend in Wyoming writes,

Here, it’s been blizzarding most of the week. Today the wind loosened one of the roof panels on the barn making it slam up and down constantly. I had to connect two ladders together with duct tape to climb to the spot and drill in new screws. In blowing snow and 35mph wind. I hate heights so first I had to tie a climbing rope to a fencepost and heave it across the roof. Then climb the ladder while holding the rope then drill the screws one-handed while still gripping the rope with the other hand.

Back in the clinic the first patient was a dog pretty obviously suffering from methamphetamine toxicosis. You can tell because the dog looks to be on the verge of epileptic fits. The treatment for epileptic fits is high-dose valium intravenously. And you can tell it’s methamphetamine because valium makes the twitching much worse. The treatment for meth is thorazine. I gave a dose and he quieted down. Now I have to call the police. The owners are a young couple with a two-year-old daughter.

Last night I had to see a horse with a foot-long cut on his neck. Because I’ve had to use the snowblower every morning this week the snow has piled so deep in front of the barn that we couldn’t get the horse over the snow berm. I guess he was afraid of deep snow. So we had to shovel a path through the snow pile for the horse to get him in the barn so I could suture the wound.

Wyoming winters are losing their charm.

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