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Help always comes when you need it the most ...
Wednesday 14th September 2011
At ACE we always seem to get help when we need it most,
and this month it arrived in the shape of a wonderful, gifted lady
called Kath.
Kath lives in Luxor and has an industrial sewing machine she wanted to sell - ACE needed one, as we have a lot of heavy duty fabric that often needs repairs, so we decided to buy it from her.
When the sewing machine arrived, Kath came in for an hour to show us how it worked. It was her first visit to ACE and she immediately loved the place, and the work that we do. We were able to show her some of the saddle sore problems we face on a daily basis and how easy it would be to prevent these with 'doughnut rings' for the donkeys.
To our delight Kath offered to come in and make these cushions for us! She is now at ACE two mornings every week in making cushions for needy patients. The material and cotton stuffing is cheap, and the labour costs nothing as it is all done with love!
This is Kath's first patient who presented to us with huge sores on each side of his body. The sores were being treated and dressed, but as the problem causing tack was going straight back on, the healing process was incredibly slow. Kath made two cushions for him that were stitched together at the top.
Here you can see how the ring sits perfectly over the dressed sore to raise the tack off the wound. The sore is now healing beautifully and is nearly gone.
Thanks to Kath we are now able to put ACE's preventative approach to animal care in to even more practise!
