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Cows are hard to kill. My mother is a veterinarian and a professor of hers once told this story: He was on a farm treating a cow for calcium deficiency (common
by tgb 11y ago
Cows are hard to kill. My mother is a veterinarian and a professor of hers once told this story: He was on a farm treating a cow for calcium deficiency (common for dairy cows), which is easy to treat, you just pump a bunch of nutrients directly into the cow and they'll go from being more or less incapacitated to healthy in a short span. So there he was, IV into the cow and hooks up the bottle to it and empties it into the cow while talking to farm. Finishes up and goes to disconnect the bottle from the IV, looks at it, turns to the farmer and says, "I think I just bought your cow." It wasn't calcium replacement, it was Lysol that he had just dumped a liter of into the cow!
The cow lived, barely seemed to notice.
- comrh 11y agoWhy did he have Lysol in an IV though?! Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannulated_cow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannulated_cow
- deelowe 11y agoWondering the same thing. How would lysol end up in an IV?
- brianwawok 11y agoI assume it's a fill your own bag solution not a sterile bag that said medical grade lysol.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoHe filled up his own IV bag with Lysol? Makes no sense.
- lfowles 11y agoPerhaps generic Lysol. Generic white bottle with lots of text is common on ranches.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoGross negligence at best?
- louithethrid 11y agoVetrinarys - those that treat cows and big animals are rare. And always on the job. As in really always. Knew four, 2 had cancer, one had a burn out, one gave the big animals up for the pet-doctoring.
- tgb 11y agoIt's a good question that I don't know the answer to. This happened decades ago and is third hand at this point, so take it with a grain of salt (but check that it's actually salt first, and not, you know, Lysol).
- graffitici 11y agoMaybe your mother was the first one to discover cow placebo effects :)
- beloch 11y agoI spent a couple summers working on my uncle's ranch and I was actually sort of surprised at how lackadaisical vets could be when treating cattle. We had one cow with a soccer-ball sized lump on it's side, so my uncle called a vet in to have a look. The vet looked at it for all of five seconds before pulling out a knife and slashing the growth open. "Yep. Just pus". Indeed. Pus everywhere! The cow, being a marvel of well-bred placidity, just moo'ed and carried on chewing its cud. The vet prescribed some antibiotics and that was the end of it. I asked what had caused the pus to collect like that and the vet just shrugged. We often think of cows as being dumb, but really, they're just bred to be calm and stoic. Imagine trying to treat a buffalo or moose the same way!