A busy few days

It's been a busy few days. If you've read Donna's blog, you'll know she's just spent a couple of nights in hospital.

Thursday afternoon, after a lunch of MacDonalds, we got a call from a local vet asking if we could come and pick up a Tawny Frogmouth. It had been found sitting by the side of the road somewhere in our area. Tawnys have a habit during the day of sitting in a tree pretending to be piece of the tree. The vet seemed to think that this particular bird had been doing just that.

We took the bird home but had a feeling it had been indirectly poisoned by eating a poisoned mouse, something that's quite common unfortunately.

As we don't have a suitable cage for it, we asked Jess a Brett if they could take it. They said they'd come and pick it up that evening and stay for dinner.

Not long after dinner (steak and sausages, there's a trend forming here) Donna started complaining about pains in the stomach. She has ulcers and assumed it was that and took a Somac. Unfortunately, the pain was getting worse and it didn't matter what position she got in, there was no relief. I mouthed the word ambulance to Jess and Brett and they ambos were there within about five minutes.

Anyway, if you want to read the rest it's in Donna's blog, but needless to say, not much got done around the house yesterday and a rescue I got called out for in the afternoon had to be done by someone else. It was most likely all the fatty food that we'd had that day that triggered Donna's problem.

By coincidence, I'm doing a first aid course this weekend, it's at the nearest ambulance station to the hospital where Donna was staying. It seems funny sitting not far from an ambulance when I was riding in one only a couple of days ago.

Oh, and the poor Tawny didn't make it, it died before Donna started getting the stomach pains.