Ben H
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I had an MRI Monday, diagnosed on Wednesday that I have a torn ACL, will be seeing the specialist tomorrow. It happened a month ago at my other job so workers comp is taking care of it. After a month of going to the Dr and PT they couldn't find what was wrong. They ordered an MRI, the insurance took a week and half to approve it but it did find the problem.
Here is something I had written back when I got injured on how it happened:
Lucky to be able to type this, almost killed by a cow. I had two cows to deal with this afternoon at the other herd I manage. One cow went fine. The other I wanted to avoid the stress of sorting her out and getting her into the chute (not a good setup for handling). She has a retained placenta and needed another shot of antibiotics. I gave her a 3cc dart of xylazine to make her sleepy with my dart gun. That didn't do the trick so I gave her another 1.25cc, still getting up so 1.5cc more. Finally I could get a halter on her and tied her head over to her leg. I got the medicine into her. Then I started to slowly administer the reversal drug Tolazine to wake her back up. Went fine on the other cow, this one was going well, giving it nice and slow, then it kicked in almost instantly and she got up before I could untie her halter from her leg. Once she gave up a bit I slowly approached, had to get her untied. She was giving me the "I want to kill you look", I put my hand on her head and slowly moved down the rope to my slip knot. I was going to pull the knot and slip the halter off her head. I got as far as the slip knot, as soon as she felt a little freedom of movement she came after me. I was standing next to a gate a little under 6' high. I scaled/jumped over it just as she came full force into after me. I twisted my knee a little landing on the other side but made it. She came at the gate but couldn't get to me, I sat down and laughed a little for being lucky to be alive. For now on, these cows are not to be worked alone.
Here is something I had written back when I got injured on how it happened:
Lucky to be able to type this, almost killed by a cow. I had two cows to deal with this afternoon at the other herd I manage. One cow went fine. The other I wanted to avoid the stress of sorting her out and getting her into the chute (not a good setup for handling). She has a retained placenta and needed another shot of antibiotics. I gave her a 3cc dart of xylazine to make her sleepy with my dart gun. That didn't do the trick so I gave her another 1.25cc, still getting up so 1.5cc more. Finally I could get a halter on her and tied her head over to her leg. I got the medicine into her. Then I started to slowly administer the reversal drug Tolazine to wake her back up. Went fine on the other cow, this one was going well, giving it nice and slow, then it kicked in almost instantly and she got up before I could untie her halter from her leg. Once she gave up a bit I slowly approached, had to get her untied. She was giving me the "I want to kill you look", I put my hand on her head and slowly moved down the rope to my slip knot. I was going to pull the knot and slip the halter off her head. I got as far as the slip knot, as soon as she felt a little freedom of movement she came after me. I was standing next to a gate a little under 6' high. I scaled/jumped over it just as she came full force into after me. I twisted my knee a little landing on the other side but made it. She came at the gate but couldn't get to me, I sat down and laughed a little for being lucky to be alive. For now on, these cows are not to be worked alone.