Excitement on May 16
Excitement on May 16
You never know when you wake up in the morning what are all the potential surprises in store for you as the day unfolds.
From the perspective that I enjoy the picture and plan of our lives is in the hands of the creator. We only think we are in charge.
This morning was not particularly unusual. My wife, Janice was very pregnant in fact the Doctor’s Last exam had assured her that things were normal and they predicted the birthday would be sometime next week.
We lived very near the new Clinic we had built and it was located on a small farm on the East Edge of Brighton, Colorado. May was one of the busiest months in our practice because we were trying to get all the calves vaccinated, dehorned if they needed it and we would castrate the bull calves. In 1957 a large part of that sort of animal husbandry was done by the veterinarian. We wanted to get most of that done before the flies and maggots would be a challenge.
The new hay would soon be ready to cut and spring was in the air.
Except that morning it was snowing. It was going to change some of our appointments perhaps so I headed to the office. My first job would be to turn the dogs out to the small exercise run we had and clean the cages. Yes, back in those days in a new small animal clinic we did the work ourselves. For some reason we didn’t have many farm calls that morning so I was back at the clinic at about 10:00AM
Janice called the clinic and asked if we were busy and I told her that not at the moment we were not.
She said she wasn’t sure but maybe we should head to the hospital this afternoon.
Dr. Bill Waddell was not only our doctor but had become a dear friend. He began his practice in 1951 the same year I went to work with Dr. John Thimmig as new vet graduate.