Feeding the Calf

A few weeks before we were going to get our engagement pictures taken, Jonathan and his brother left out of town. I want to say they went to Elko, Nevada, but I am not positive. Anyway, when they left they had a baby calf at their house that they had been bottle feeding because something had happened to the momma cow and so she couldn't feed this calf. So, they needed someone to feed it for them while they were gone. Jonathan asked if I would do it???? Sure, to be honest, I thought I would kill it while they were gone. My experience bottle feeding animals all resulted in them dying when I was younger, so asking me to bottle feed another animal made me nervous. I only had to do it for a couple days, so I just hoped that I could keep it alive for a couple days. Well, I did fine keeping the calf alive, it was what I did to myself in the process. Let me first tell you the process of feeding the calf before I tell you what I did to myself. The calf was in the horse trailer that was in the driveway, so I would have to go through the garage inside the house to prepare the bottle, then come back through the garage back out to feed the calf. After you were done feeding the calf, you would walk back through the garage and back into the house to rinse the bottle out etc., then it was back through the garage out to my car to go home. Well, I had got done feeding the calf and I was taking the bottle back in to clean it out, as I was walking through the garage, my clumsy self somehow tripped and I fell flat on the ground and hit just above my eye and below my eyebrow on this metal leg of a chair. It split it right open and was gushing blood everywhere. I went inside the house, got a paper towel and pressed it against my cut and tried to clean out the bottle best as I could one handed. I then proceeded to drive all the way to American Fork from Orem holding the paper towel on my head. I got home and asked my mom if she thought I needed stitches, "....UM, yeah", she said. So, she called the doctor and I drove up there once again by myself because she was teaching piano. When the doctor came to stitch me up, I said to him could you please stitch it good so it doesn't scar very bad. I am getting engagement pictures taken in a few weeks and I don't want it to look horrible! Doc said of course! That was my main concern is an ugly scar for engagement pics! How pathetic was I! Anyway, the doctor actually did an awesome job, you can hardly see the scar today or the day of my engagement pics! :) Above my eye was still a little swollen when I had the pics taken, but you can't see the scar! :) Jonathan had also had something done to his hand shortly before I biffed it in the garage and split my eye open, and had to wear a brace on his hand for awhile, so we joked about our injuries we had at the same time. I have a picture of me somewhere with my eye, but I can't find it, but here is a pic of Jonathan sporting his awesome brace!