Tuesday, November 28, 2023

 nov 28

just sit there and heal thyself.... has been said to me several times...  well.... sitting there gives me time to think and that's trouble ---last night's thinking has to do with The various bits and pieces of hardware that I absorbed into normal household living when Tom gave up his medical practice... he basically had three examining rooms all pretty equally equipped   minor surgery pap smears shots so when he closed his practice I gathered up all that stuff and the stainless steel collection alone filled a fair size cardboard box which came home with me..   and then I picked out things that would work very nicely in my toolbox or holding my silverware on the kitchen counter..  there was still a considerable amount left in that box. One other effect of his retiring was that I no longer had to order supplies for his office... but I figured there was no way I was going to give up that privilege so for years after he retired I maintained several accounts at medical supply places... and I know it's possible to order syringes here and there for agricultural purposes without any problem I had absolutely no trouble sending all these things to doctor Thomas White.

The result of those things along with a massive influx of animals and veterinary expenses I eventually had a pretty complete medical supply closet.

from cartons of two by two gauze squares---to  syringes 3cc,10cc,20cc and even 60cc—to  IV setups with nearly expired  drips...to the ubiquitous vet wrap...along with microscopes---- his... mine... and 3 child types...

 

each of these has a verification of  time..... like ... my microscope—which  was attached to my computer which sat in the living room.. when a volunteer came running up from the laundry building screaming “I GOT SOME” as she waved a small sandwich bag over her head... and we all gathered in the living room to verify the fact that we had found a male dog with live sperm..  of course as life went on we realized that sperm was pretty easy to come by live and otherwise... but we were interested in artificial insemination and first had to determine the viability of the sperm which we did with my microscope.

 

Likewise having 60CC syringes was very strange because there are very few uses in the medical world for something that large however I use them and basting turkeys at Thanksgiving or whatever there are lot of uses...  and I know I had them because when Janine bought the five white goats and sent me the e-mail that we were going to practice milking them, I went immediately to my medical supply closet and grabbed a couple 60CC syringes.  which I put together with a food vacuum Packer.... to put together a goat milking machine...  obviously that was before we found out that that thing hanging between the goats back legs was not an udder. And in fact these were boy goats not prone to giving milk..   but it does prove that at the point that Janine bought those goats I still had a supply OF60CC syringes and a lot of other things in my medical supply area

 

Best I remember the medical  collection was on 2 stainless steel Uline storage racks in the corner of the cellar...  and there was a significant first aid Collection of initial supplies in the corner of the kitchen carefully labeled dog bite...  we never knew whether that was the dog biting or getting bitten however there was an initial packet oh stuff...  but the main supply of the medical was in many cartoons in the corner of the cellar.

 

My point of all this is that this is just one more thing that's been stripped out of here..  There really was quite a collection of stuff..   and I think the only thing left.  is his old exam table which is in building 25. And a few bits in my toolbox...  oh and some on the kitchen counter but the bulk of it is gone.

 

Gone  where?

 

Well staying on the topic of stainless steel.   back in 2014 15,16  when I was managing service dog project we had in one of those years 50 puppies.

which meant that on the property were probably 60 to 70 dogs...  now add to that the fact that there's one kind of dog food dish that you really can't or shouldn't put on the ground to feed a dog and that's the normal shaped one narrower at the bottom because if you step on that in your excitement of expecting to get fed dog food it can flip up and literally break a dog's leg...  so I had a collection of wider at the bottom dog dishes particularly for puppies and puppies watering dishes and things like that...  there were two shelves  approximately 3 foot by three foot. in the back feeding room which held this  huge collection of stainless steel feeding bowls.   and here we are. 2023. and at the moment I have four bowls..... with many dozens a bowls just plain gone.  And to make matters worse..... I got fanatical about stainless steel watering pails... and try to make sure that every dog on the property had a stainless steel water pail.  That's when we had 50 to 60 dogs on the property many of these watering pales we're technically approved for for food preparation because it didn't have the overlapping lip.. which made them very expensive.   now we barely have enough watering pails to go around.

 

so in healing myself..   I've been sitting around playing the numbers game...  and believe me that's only the start...  of missing equipment..   of things that I happily would have loaned to anyone to use..   but what's happening is stuff.  is just gone.... And nobody seems to know where.

 

Because of my open door policy with no locks on equipment department..  I expect to lose a certain number of electric drills every year I mean that's just a fact of life and that's expected but to be minus and entire medical  supply collection..  with some of it fairly valuable just needs a little more attention -----somebody.... please???