Day 2-Tornado Alley

Well ...don't have time to write much tonight, been a long....long day. Started out great with a flush of 2 donor mares (flush is when you literally flush her uterus out and catch the fluid which contains fertilized embryos that you then transfer is to serrogant mares). Interesting note one of the mares was donating her eggs because in her last pregnancy she was injured by the foal and had a rectal-vaginal fistula (where the foals hoof punctures the vaginal wall and enters the rectum, so feces comes out their vagina-not good!) Next we induced our foal watch mare from the previous night and had a beautiful baby girl within 25 minutes of induction! Finally one of my mares (each student gets several mares that they are in charge of keeping up with) was brought in for treatment and we noticed her foals leg was swollen, so she was taken in the the equine hospital where she was diagnosed with a fracture! In the meantime her mother developed an eye issue and needed to be treated, did I mention this mare only has one eye! So needless to say my one eyed mare with an eye problem and her wobbly foal with a big cast kept be busy in the afternoon.
      Then, we were told to get afternoon treatments done quickly and get home due to the incoming storms. Chad picked me up at quarter till five and we immediately began watching the news to see what was happening. We learned we might get tornado's heading our way about 6:20, so being the procrastinater that I am, I told Chad that we would quickly eat our dinner and head to the storm shelter around 6...BAD IDEA. At around 5:55 we sat down to eat our salads and heard our neighbors outside our door. We opened the door to them asking if we were ok and then the eeriest sound I have ever heard came.....the tornado sirens!!!! Our neighbors bolted inside and Chad rushed me to the bathroom and started throwing pillows on top of me. We sat their listening to the terrifying sound of the sirens for approx 20 minutes. Thank goodness we are safe and sound and our power just came back on around 9pm. Lots of prayers for those who lost their homes tonight!