The elderly author had increasing mobility issues, was using crutches more frequently and heading for a wheelchair, when he decided to have the bones in his arthritic right ankle fused. He believed that a club foot would be more useful than a wheelchair around the house. The mandatory check of leg circulation prior to the operation revealed enexpected extensive atherosclerosis and occlusions of the arteries of both legs from the abdominal aorta to the feet.While waiting to see the v...

As a naïve young vet, Doug Fenwick had to adjust to family life in a small Victorian country town. He learned that there is an economic limit on the cost of treating animals, commercial and family pets alike. You can't always save an animal's life at all costs.He and his wife of six months, Margaret, arrived in a small country town in July 1955, with all of their worldly possessions in the back of a 1948 Ford Prefect utility vehicle.Life was hard in the dairy farming district...