Animal Haven Clinic is reborn!

Joe and Sue met at CSU. Joe came to Farmington in July 1977 and took over running Animal Haven Clinic. Being very astute, Joe realized that on his hands, he had a very large challenge. The challenge was similar to a dystocia involving an elephant. Joe invited Sue to come. Joe claimed that an animal was in need and together they could deliver a fine healthy pachyderm. Sue left her beautiful, green homeland and came to the desert to see a pachyderm struggling to be born - posterior presentation, sacral-ventral position. The big mom was down unable to rise, becoming weaker by the minute. Using chains, prayer, persistence, sweat, and magic, the fetus - Animal Haven Clinic - was inched out. A fetatomy wasn't appropriate as the OB. wire could damage the baby's trunk. The dystocia was resolved to be replaced by a pachyderm with explosive diarrhea and a pulsatile trunk, weak suck reflex. The elephant mom's struggle to deliver the baby left the mom with raging uterine infection, obturator paralysis and no mothering instinct. At this point, Dr. Moreland started to shake her head, but Dr. Joe Quintana, name after St. Joseph the Worker, persisted, So "M" and "Q", continued to work together, dedicating their efforts to patient care and with magnanimous help from so many staff members, birthed Modern Day Animal Haven Clinic. The green graduates gradually evolved into dinosaurs, smiling at the many aspects of dystocia management.