In our practice we quite often get Vet students riding along with us to gain experience in Food Animal medicine. Such has been the case this past week. It's always enjoyable to have these students with us, as their excitement and passion is contagious. It will remind a person why they got into Veterinary medicine in the first place.
Yesterday I was in the middle of a tough OB. The calf was upside down in the uterus of the mother, and was too big to manipulate into the proper position. We eventually did a C-section to get the calf out.
Before that decision was made though, I was buried shoulder deep in the back side of the cow. Usually I'm pretty quiet during this process, with the exception of maybe a few grunts as I struggle to straighten the parts into their proper position. But as we had an eager young Vet student with us, I was trying to describe what I was feeling and what I was attempting to do. After having told her that the head of the calf was corkscrewed around backwards, the tech that was with me turned to the Vet student and in all seriousness said "Go up front and blow on the nose of the cow to help turn that head around."
She walked to the front of the cow, and I think was really going to attempt blowing on the cow's nose. Then I think she heard my tech snickering and slowly turned around "Are you being serious? You guys have some strange tricks that sometimes seem to work despite how weird they seem. I never can tell when you are teasing me."
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