Another Fun Mother-Daughter Experience

Lissa works as a dental assistant so is unfazed by anything medical. In addition, she has always been good with critters. Beau loves her, because she took him in when he was a puppy abandoned along a country road. He thinks he's still that puppy when he's around her.

Lis is quite handy with all sorts of repairs. Yesterday, she replaced a part in my washing machine so I didn't have to buy a new washer.  Beau was a little worried when he saw her lying on the laundry room floor. She was able to complete the job while being licked in the face.

The rooster had been having trouble walking and roosting because his spurs had grown out to where they hit his opposite foot. So after dark last night, I helped  Lis carry out an operation in the chicken coop. Armed with a pliers and a hot potato in an oven mitt, Lis picked up Rupert and held him upside down. I held the flashlight while she applied the baked potato to each of his spurs in turn. Lissa assured me the spur has no feeling and is like a fingernail. Then she twisted off the spurs with the pliers. I put cornstarch on the little remaining stubs of the spurs, but there was scant bleeding to stanch.

Here is the outpatient this morning. This is one of the spurs.

When I got her bill for those few minutes of  medical service, I was astounded.

                         Patient: Rupert the Rooster
                         Date of Procedure: March 4, 2016

                         Anesthesia: $500.25 (25 cents for the potato)
                         Surgery: $1,000.
                         Home Visit: $1/mile, $75

                         Total: $1,575.25

                         Please remit at once.

She performed this procedure on him a couple of years ago. It wasn't nearly this much then, in fact it was free. 

She settled for homemade brownies.