As the only retired senior in a rural neighborhood with young people, kids and 2 husbands that are away most of the week overnight, I've been called on to unstick vehicles, remove snow, remove a bat, corral a grass snake and give advice on how to make scrambles eggs. Yesterday was another first. I was interrupted while preparing dinner with an urgent call: Fish hook through the lip, what to do? As a former medic, I offered to help; come on over (across the road) where I have equipment.
Here they came, two kids, a collie and the distraught mom pulling a wagon. The patient wasn't one of the kids, it was a KITTEN. Seems a ice fishing pole had become a plaything (can't be sure if for the cat or the boy
) causing the hook to be impaled through it's lower lip. Fortunately, it went through the lip and both ends were sticking out. Using my multipurpose sidecutter, the 'surgery' was a complete success and the assemblage was soon on it's way back home, while consoling the patient.
Vortex, Phoenix, single-shot rifles and handguns.
Incurable tinkerer.
Why hunt? Simple, it's BASIC. Why breath?!
