nenmrancher
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We started our fair out under a black cloud and it just wouldnt leave, the Friday night before our fair started our 4H agent's 10 month old baby girl fell into a wading pool and drowned. So being the small rural county that we are everyone pitched in and told him to take care of his family and not to worry about the fair. Things were ok until Thursday afternoon when one of the young ladies was trying to clip her steer and got kicked in the jaw. By the time she was loaded into the ambulance it was decieded that she could not remember the last 12hrs. First time in 60 to 70 years that anyone can remember a 4H kid being hauled off the fair grounds in a ambulance. Luckily after spending the afternoon in the emergency room she started to slowly remember everything and after cat scans and x rays determined nothing was broken she was released and allowed to return to the fair. At the same time another of our 4Hers was recovering from tonsile surgery and had the scab come off and she started bleeding and ended up in Santa Fe in ICU for a couple of days to get the bleeding under control. Then at one of the rodeo proformances another of our 4Hers was participating in a rescue race and fell off the back of the horse and twisted her knee.
That was just the kids, we had one of the barn supers get kicked so hard by a horse the day before the fair that he was hauled to the hospital for xrays to rule out a broken hip. Thankfully he was just badly brused. Then to top it all of one of our local vets who puts a lot of time into the Jr livestock sale was hit in the side of the face by a horse a week or so before the fair and was being watched for a detached retina was working with some colts and had someone drive through where he was working and spooked the colts ending up with him getting kicked in the face above his other eye. He ended up at the doctors office and has ten stiches in upper eye lid. Anyway after this happened he started to notice that his vision in the other eye was off and went back to the eye doctor and had them recheck the other eye. Needless to say it was determined that he did have a detached retina and was sent to the first available surgen for surgery. Prob the first time in 30 years this guy has missed a jr livestock sale.
Several of us at the fair deciede that this was the year of the walking wounded and that as far as we were concerned the year cant end soon enough.
That was just the kids, we had one of the barn supers get kicked so hard by a horse the day before the fair that he was hauled to the hospital for xrays to rule out a broken hip. Thankfully he was just badly brused. Then to top it all of one of our local vets who puts a lot of time into the Jr livestock sale was hit in the side of the face by a horse a week or so before the fair and was being watched for a detached retina was working with some colts and had someone drive through where he was working and spooked the colts ending up with him getting kicked in the face above his other eye. He ended up at the doctors office and has ten stiches in upper eye lid. Anyway after this happened he started to notice that his vision in the other eye was off and went back to the eye doctor and had them recheck the other eye. Needless to say it was determined that he did have a detached retina and was sent to the first available surgen for surgery. Prob the first time in 30 years this guy has missed a jr livestock sale.
Several of us at the fair deciede that this was the year of the walking wounded and that as far as we were concerned the year cant end soon enough.
