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To: Elsie
When you give shots intra-muscular, pull back on the plunger just a fraction to make sure your not in a blood vessel, but if your just pinching up skin that is a sub Q injection and you don't have to make sure where the needle IS but as I was trained I always back the plunger. If your in a vein you'll know immediately
. Its the muscle ones you really have to check...a medication that is going into a muscle is not given into a vein, that's why you check.

I am proud of you, its scary at first to give shots. In nursing my first injection (with the teacher standing by) was a sub Q heparin in the belly. As a student you smile and ooze confidence so the patient does jump out of bed and run down the hall because you never had given an injection before......LOL Sub Q are usually shorter needles than IM.

My husband had plowed and disc the area, it was all weeds, then he had a hand held seeder and just walked the area turning the handle. (maybe you have seen these types of hand seeders (plastic) I don't remember too clear on the amount of seed per acre, but I don't think it was more than 1 1/2 pounds or 2 for an acre of land... Those hand seeders spread the seed out several feet on each side of you. Its not like planting a garden, he walked at a good pace and then changed pace according to how much seed was left in the hand seeder....easy to do, you don't plant alfalfa close, you spread it. Its like spreading any grass seed. Alphfa spreads (reseeds itself every year. And gets thicker after a few years.

Of course you probably know some of this already...:O) VERY PROUD OF YOU FOR GIVING AN INJECTION.

Just to remember to get just a little pinch of flesh to put the needle in, it saves on your fingers getting stuck with said needle.. Vets are amazing. I once told my vet he should teach student nurses. They will hit a vein first stick on dogs and the dogs skin is covered with hair. PS I had to use a different wormer every time I did the flock so they didn't get immune to one kind of wormer. Some were just a few drops on the back of the neck, but one of them was an injection, another a pill (bolus) B S on trying to shove a pill down a goats throat with a balling gun. Tried that only once and went for the needles and the other wormer..

Geeze I type too much like I talk too much...

205 posted on 01/28/2014 9:55:47 PM PST by goat granny (.)
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To: goat granny
Geeze I type too much like I talk too much...

No problem; as I am an information consumer!

Perhaps you can give me a clue about her poop.

Instead of little berries scattered about, she poops out a little ball of them, stuck together.

206 posted on 01/29/2014 4:13:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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