One step forward, two steps back
So, today wasn't the greatest.
It started out fine - and ended fine - just the early afternoon was a damper. The first day we went out we visited a farm that had a 12-14 hour old calf. It was fine - but in order to teach Lawrence how to use some of the new toys we brought him , we decided to show him how to tube feed a calf that isn't eating. Holly tried to pass the tube, but the calf fought so much, she couldn't (works best in sick calves.) We didn't run any milk in or anything and all was well. Until yesterday - when the calf DIED!!! And they blame us. (Can't say I can argue MUCH with that - imagine a foreign doctor who doesn't speak your language shows up at your farm and treats a healthy animal with some device you've never seen before and then it dies - you'd blame them, too.) We know - and more importantly Lawrence knows - that what we did caused no harm - now they have the tough task of trying to convince the farmers of that. :( Please pray before you go to bed for Lawrence, the field officer, and the portfolio officer, Parvin, as they go to talk with them tomorrow morning. We don't want to have damaged the good relationships at all. We don't understand why this happened, but we trust that God will bring something good from it as He has promised.
Short blog tonight - out of time.
Thanks for all the emails!
It started out fine - and ended fine - just the early afternoon was a damper. The first day we went out we visited a farm that had a 12-14 hour old calf. It was fine - but in order to teach Lawrence how to use some of the new toys we brought him , we decided to show him how to tube feed a calf that isn't eating. Holly tried to pass the tube, but the calf fought so much, she couldn't (works best in sick calves.) We didn't run any milk in or anything and all was well. Until yesterday - when the calf DIED!!! And they blame us. (Can't say I can argue MUCH with that - imagine a foreign doctor who doesn't speak your language shows up at your farm and treats a healthy animal with some device you've never seen before and then it dies - you'd blame them, too.) We know - and more importantly Lawrence knows - that what we did caused no harm - now they have the tough task of trying to convince the farmers of that. :( Please pray before you go to bed for Lawrence, the field officer, and the portfolio officer, Parvin, as they go to talk with them tomorrow morning. We don't want to have damaged the good relationships at all. We don't understand why this happened, but we trust that God will bring something good from it as He has promised.
Short blog tonight - out of time.
Thanks for all the emails!
posted by Leslie @ 8:40 AM
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