Reply With QuoteG'day All, Yeah especially going into the skull at PM's cheers Dennis
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during an almost routine castration op yesterday almost blotted my copy book while assisting.
I nearly passed out !
Laugh if you must, and the vets (one's a friend) didn't give me too much grief after, but it was touch and go for a while........
We had to roll him on his back and the Vets did a 'closed' procedure due to a large inguinal ring and the (not so) little sod sucking one back up the other day when we tried to do this. A closed procedure reduces the chances of intestinal evisceration.
Yes, they were both down and present (and huge) before starting. The testicles were anaesthetised and secured prior to putting him right out so the right one wouldn't disappear again and my job was to straddle the neck with my knees in his armpits and hold the front legs while one vet anaesthetised and the other operated, a nurse assisted and a student looked on plus my SO.
Yep, we had a crowd.
Everything was going swimmingly, I have a ringside seat and all of a sudden my tummy starts feeling funny, the vision starts to go and I break out into a cold sweat, the vision becomes darker and I feel desperately ill......this is not good and definitely not the time to feel like this.
My SO sees my distress, discretely alerts Bec the anaesthetising vet behind me who will wear me if things go pear shaped
Bec pokes me in the bum, "are you OK ?" which I vaguely hear and mumble something slightly incoherent, concentrate on my breathing and look towards the sky..
oops, that's worse, so back to watching Cameron doing a lovely job removing Frankie's manhood.......
yes, great stuff but it isn't helping my present discomfort either, and then the student gets the first testicle stuck on the forceps which she waves around right in front of my face trying to dislodge it.....geez it's big.......god I feel crook......
Amazing how time seems to stand still when we least appreciate it
While feeling like an eternity but is in fact very quick, Cameron finishes up and we can all walk back up the rise to the stables with the topic of conversation turning to how pale I look as I sort of stagger....... (you'd think everyone could pretend not to notice)
At least I didn't go right out, and my SO reckons that the fear of what might happen if I did with those scalpels and girls around overrode what was happening in my head.
Bloody embarrassing.
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G'day All, Yeah especially going into the skull at PM's cheers Dennis
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the weird thing is that I've assisted on these before, marked (castrated) I don't know how many calves and de-horned just as many head of cattle (and that is one bloody procedure on a full grown cow)
and no pics, I was too busy hanging on.
AT REST
G'day Rick130
It was just caused by the way that you were squatting, and causing restricted blood flow, resulting in light headedness
cheers
ChatterBox
Sorry to hear ,
sounds like a horse
usually the mind blots out the squeamish side when your interested in something new and unusual,
fascination takes over, then you get in there way pearing over to have a good look.
An old school friends husband is a vet and i assisted/gawked lots of times when he was opearting, fascinating stuff.
Then there was the first job I got when i left school, as a theatre orderly, i have seen more cardiac, head, back, surgery than most average people. Had a great bunch of surgeons who used to explain what where when and why,
Now that was interesting stuff, saw a tumour removed from a persons cranium that was the size of a grape fruit. Hard to work out how it fit in there.
I wasn;t overly impressed with orthopaedics lots of blood and sawing and chipping, amputations well guess who was the catcher?
Then there are pm's but thats another story
Fascinating stuff.
john
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I have also assisted with castrations, branding, killing sheep, shooting ferals etc.
I've never even got squeamish when I cut myself or anything.
But I recently had a blood test and promptly had a little nap in the chair.
I have no conscious problem with it but deep in my brain I must do, go figure.
Then a few weeks later I had my last wisdom tooth out and decided I should warn the nurse not to be too bothered if I passed out for no reason. I only went pale & got light headed that time.
I suspect it was only the physical reaction to the adrenalin in the needle shot, which they had administered in several small amounts, because of my warning.
What's the answer? Am I just a girlie?
NM?
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sorry, it was a colt (18 month old warmblood, so pretty damn big)
the strange thing for me is that I've marked (castrated) stacks of calf's, de-horned at least as many (and that is a bloody job, you aren't too pretty at the end of the day), put down far too many during the drought, worked in various abattoir's and knackery's (as a fridgie) and never had a problem (although the smell of horse flesh is way too sweet and unnatural for me)
I like UncleHo's reason.
AT REST
Go To www.mancans.com.au they may be able to help you, LOL, Regards Frank.Originally Posted by 100I
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YarnMaster
Too much information!
Had to shoot a birth once (as in videotape), 3 cameras, (hospital med procedure), the director of photography (not me) passed out, said he'd never go near a femme again, which lasted about a week
GQ
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