05/02/2026
Oh Gloria! This girl has brought me through so many experiences just this year 😂 both not good ones 🫣 From getting stuck during kidding and almost making me lose her and her Dam, to her flipping out for a shot and causing me to stab myself in the finger with the needle. Keep in mind, I have been giving shots to goats and cattle for years and never had this happen. Both SQ and IM 😂
This past Wednesday she had a 105 fever (she's back to normal now) so I gave her a fever reducer and an antibiotic, as I went to give her the antibiotic she went crazy and the needle came out of her skin and went into my middle finger. It was a 20 gauge that went right in between my fingernail and my joint 🤦🏼♀️ my finger started bleeding right away so I put pressure on it, I looked at the syringe and noticed that .1ml was gone (still not sure if I got it or if she did) 😂 and I got scared, I washed my hands and just kept running my finger under water for a little bit, and it was hurting SO bad. The tip of the needle was bent so I'm not sure if that was from it going into my finger or not. Anyway after it stopped bleeding and I was holding my middle finger up 😂 the tip of my finger started going numb 😱 it scared me at first but then the feeling slowly started coming back and it started getting more painful again. I went to the doctor and had to get a Tetanus shot and antibiotics, and antibiotic pills are the size of a freaking cow pill let me tell you that 😑
Next time, remind me not to tell any of my animals that 2 shots aren't that bad because it looks like I ended up getting 2 shots too 🤣