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Elizabeth Woolsey Author Writing is my guilty pleasure.

I love to share true stories of my life as a horse veterinarian both in America and in Australia where I have lived and worked for the last 28 years.

16/12/2024

For my Australian friends and clients:
You know Australia is upside down. The Northern hemisphere panics about colics when the temps drop. I researched this down in Oz (~2000 colics over 10 years) and found it was completely in the reverse. It gets so hot, in Oz that the horses don't drink!!! Hence colics. Lot's of colics. So, to my former clients, I hear is is hot as Hades down there. Cool off your water tanks. Replenish the water frequently. Monitor f***l output.
And you wonder why I don't miss practice??? In 2018 our 1-vet practice saw 58 colics from Jan 1 to Feb 28 and over Dec-almost March 78 colics. We called the clinic "Colic Central" One Sunday afternoon I had 8 colics!!!
Miss you all and wish you a colic free Christmas and New Years.

Thanks to the Plaid Horse for giving me the opportunity to promote Equine Veterinary Medicine and a life that I loved.
03/12/2024

Thanks to the Plaid Horse for giving me the opportunity to promote Equine Veterinary Medicine and a life that I loved.

The Plaid Horse December/January 2025 Issue is out now! Discover the best schools, products, services, and more in this year's Education Issue!

Read the full issue here: https://issuu.com/theplaidhorsemag/docs/tph1225

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Before I was an author, I was a horse vet. I saw and reported on many different problems with horses. I wrote one of the...
21/11/2024

Before I was an author, I was a horse vet. I saw and reported on many different problems with horses. I wrote one of the first detailed papers on burn treatment in 2017 @ Equine Veterinary Education which is a publication for the AAEP. https://beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eve.12806

You can see a YouTube version of that paper here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7dcNwXf-eA&t=28s

A colleague has a horse that has been recently burned and she didn't know I, and my staff at Adelaide Plains Equine Clinic, had experience in successfully treating many burned horses. Those and other cases I reported on were under my "Australian vet" name EW Herbert. I now go by my maiden name (minus the Herbert). I hate to think that colleagues need the help I can provide. Of course, with greater knowledge treatments change, but often when there are catastrophic situations such as fires, an economic solution can save animals.

Lessons for veterinarians and horse owners in treating horses with thermal injuries from bushfires

26/10/2024

Another chance to Rip Me Off
Starting today and ending on Monday my award winning Cozy Mystery Small Town Secrets is free for an eBook download.
https://bit.ly/4doOyb7
Thanks

Lots happening for Horse Doctor Press:I will be at the Booth Western Art Museums West Fest selling books and Horse Docto...
23/10/2024

Lots happening for Horse Doctor Press:
I will be at the Booth Western Art Museums West Fest selling books and Horse Doctor Hats. I know you think they are just exceptionally cool hats, but it turns out they are great fish magnets.
Small Town Secrets, my award winning cozy mystery set in South Australia, is free as an eBook on Amazon from October 26th to the 28th (Yep rip me off again :) )
I am the new President of the Booth Western Art Literary Guild... So I am asking you fellow authors to consider joining. Most of our meeting will be Zoom so you don't have to live locally to benefit from the association. You do have to be a member of the Museum, but I was hooked the first time I visited the Museum.
Hope to see you at West Fest. https://boothmuseum.org/west-fest/
Happy trails

I had lunch with Andrew Higdon yesterday and the Booth Western Art Museum. Wow !!! Look at his work on his webpage. I'm ...
03/10/2024

I had lunch with Andrew Higdon yesterday and the Booth Western Art Museum. Wow !!! Look at his work on his webpage. I'm a sucker for clouds.

For those that want to help here is a legit way to do so. Facebook people helped me when we had our Australian fires, an...
02/10/2024

For those that want to help here is a legit way to do so.
Facebook people helped me when we had our Australian fires, and I have already contributed to this group.
From my colleague:
I am an equine vet at UTCVM and my old practice area I left about 6 months ago was completely devastated. If you are interested in donating but obviously cannot come to Knoxville I am happy to take donations to get these supplies and bring them to campus. I have been in contact with most of the large animal vets in the area and they don’t even know where to start because there still isn’t any vet service. It’s really bad…
Brehm Animal Science Arena, in conjunction with UTIA, 2506 River Drive, Knoxville on the following days/times:
Tuesday, October 1: 5-7 pm
Wednesday, October 2: 2-6 pm
Thursday, October 3: 5-7 pm
Friday, October 4: 2-6 pm
Please follow signs to the drop-off point. If needed, additional times will be added to the schedule for drop-offs. Please ONLY bring the supplies requested on the list below
Dog/puppy food: dry or canned
Cat/kitten food: dry or canned
Grain/Pellets for livestock including horses, cattle, sheep/goats, and poultry
Square bales of hay. Please DO NOT donate round bales.
*horse in picture is okay*
https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2630197522202624760
Teresa Buchheit Baisden
Bump

30/09/2024

We're doing another round of cheers for the 2023 First Place Winners in the Laramie Awards for Americana Fiction! Congratulations again!

No, this is not me, but I wish it was... If only to have Digger, the horse of my dreams. Free eBook Friday through Sunda...
27/09/2024

No, this is not me, but I wish it was... If only to have Digger, the horse of my dreams.
Free eBook Friday through Sunday:
https://amzn.to/3zw7tBK
Sample:
“Mum, they’re crazy over there. They all have guns, and they have murders every day.” There was an endless list of reasons my children didn’t support my return to America. They didn’t want me to leave them. My three children all lived in different states, and I was only flavor of the month in December. Not one of the kids came home for Christmas last year. They had their own families and had moved on. I left them in Australia to return to my native country—God bless America, I hoped. I was starting over.

***

“Ma’am, I’m sure glad you’re taking such a chance on the place, given the history. Not many people are willing to live alone and especially in this place with its past.”
“You mean the murder-suicide?”
“Well, that’s one theory. Most of us locals think it was a double murder, and the sheriff’s department didn’t investigate it properly.”
“Really? This is the first I heard about it.” I turned to my sister while she pretended to gaze out the window toward the mountains.
“There are reports there is money still hidden, and the son was still visiting the property just a few months ago.”
“I’ve owned the property for the last six months. Maybe I should change the lock on the gate.”

So much exciting news at Horse Doctor Press this month!!I'm very honored to be asked to speak at the Aiken Mustang Summi...
18/09/2024

So much exciting news at Horse Doctor Press this month!!
I'm very honored to be asked to speak at the Aiken Mustang Summit this Friday.
Books and veterinary medicine; my two favorite topics.
Well, if you discount fly fishing...
Lisa Diersen is on a mission to improve the Mustang Heritage and also promote Equine Art Forms.
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=aiken%20mustang%20summit

Wow!More awards to add to the others. The books are getting noticed.Super excited...elizabethwoolsey.com to read the fir...
17/08/2024

Wow!
More awards to add to the others.
The books are getting noticed.
Super excited...
elizabethwoolsey.com to read the first chapter of any of my books.
Try before you buy.

So excited to announce that three of my entries in the Global Book Awards are in the finals. The Travels of Dr. Rebecca ...
03/08/2024

So excited to announce that three of my entries in the Global Book Awards are in the finals.
The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper series (The entire series for the price of one), Small Town Secrets and the young reader/ teen book, Parkside Veterinary Clinic all made the cut.
By the way, Parkside is currently sitting at #2 in its category on Amazon!
https://bit.ly/3CYZYll
You can read the first chapter from all my books at https://elizabethwoolsey.com/

After a break I have begun the final edits on a new book. Stand by for announcements on this and others in the works.

Tippy’s favorite visitor. She even has an ups uniform.
22/07/2024

Tippy’s favorite visitor. She even has an ups uniform.

Hello from Ellijay, Georgia

12/07/2024

A Man's Worth
Another chance to rip me off.
Seriously, you have my permission.
July 15-17th Kindle free eBook download.
I double dog dare you not to cry.
https://amzn.to/3Y6qRzj

Hi again,My latest eBook is in the pre-order phase.You can order it for delivery on July 1st at a reduced price. https:/...
25/06/2024

Hi again,
My latest eBook is in the pre-order phase.
You can order it for delivery on July 1st at a reduced price. https://bit.ly/3xyUGxq
To be clear this is created with AI. I asked ChatGPT to created a poem about things that are related to horse doctors. Some of the poems are from my personal experience, and some are from the lives of horse vets and common issues. Here is another example and this one is from my personal experience:
HDP: Create a poem about a vet who takes two students to castrate two c**ts for her very last castration before retiring from veterinary medicine. She has never had a death, and she is supervising the students as they do the castrations. One gelding begins to bleed, and everyone is alarmed. The vet can’t believe she is going to experience her only post castration death on her very last horse. She is reminded that her father, who was also a horse vet, lost the first horse he ever castrated.
ChatGPT and HDP:

In the golden years of a vet’s last chapter,
She walked the fields, filled with laughter.
Two students in tow, eager to learn,
A lesson in life, a surgical turn.

Two c**ts pranced, unaware of their fate,
As the vet recalled her career, so great.
Never a loss, a record pristine,
In the art of castration, she was the queen.

Her hands, though aged, steady and wise,
Guided her pupils under open skies.
But as they worked, a sudden dread,
The owner’s concern, seeing blood spread.

The vet’s heart sank, her face turned pale,
Could her final act be the one to fail?
Years of success, now clouded with doubt,
Her perfect record, facing a rout.

“I can’t believe this,” she whispered low,
Her last surgery, turning to woe.
Memories surfaced, of her father’s own hand,
A horse vet too, who once took a stand.

He lost his first, in a tale of old,
A story remembered made her heart cold.
Now here she stood, at the other end,
Facing what she never imagined to fend.

The students watched, their eyes wide in fear,
As the vet stepped in, her mind crystal clear.
Years of experience in her every move,
She worked to correct, her skill to prove.

With swift precision, the bleeding was stopped,
The c**t was saved, their hearts un-cropped.
The crisis averted, relief in the air,
The vet’s record intact, handled with care.

In that moment, a lesson was taught,
Not just in surgery, but in the thought.
That even in endings, surprises may hide,
But resilience shines, through the tide.

As they walked back, the sun setting low,
The vet smiled softly, her heart aglow.
Her legacy not just in the lives she did mend,
But in the wisdom to her students, she’d send.

For in the dance of life, both loss and gain,
We find our strength, our purpose plain.
The vet retired, her head held high,
Under the vast, endless Southern sky.

Coming soon:Announcing a new eBook:Horse Doctor Press Prompt: Create a poem introducing a new book by Horse Doctor Press...
17/06/2024

Coming soon:
Announcing a new eBook:
Horse Doctor Press Prompt: Create a poem introducing a new book by Horse Doctor Press which is a collection of poems prompted by Horse Doctor Press and the life of a vet including the life of Elizabeth Woolsey-Herbert and her life as a horse vet from her days as a vet tech to her retirement from practice at Adelaide Plains Equine Clinic in South Australia. The book's title is: AI Poetry from a Horse Doctor's Life Verses from the Clinic
And here is a slightly atypical, generated response.

Introducing "AI Poetry from a Horse Doctor's Life: Verses from the Clinic"
From vet tech days to twilight's grace,
Through clinic halls, each patient case,
Elizabeth Woolsey-Herbert's lore,
A life with horses at its core.
In Adelaide's plains, where stories grew,
Equine tales both old and new,
This book of poems, crafted fine,
Marries AI with a vet's lifetime.
A New Dawn
In the heart of Horse Doctor Press,
A venture bold, we now address,
With ChatGPT, our trusted aide,
Verses from the clinic are displayed.
Early Years
As a vet tech, her journey starts,
Learning skills and mending hearts,
From simple tasks to complex care,
Elizabeth’s passion blossomed there.
The Practitioner
Years flew by, her knowledge deep,
In Adelaide Plains, her pledge to keep,
To heal and help each noble steed,
Fulfilling every horse's need.
Retirement Reflections
Now in her retirement phase,
She reflects on yesteryear's blaze,
With AI's help, her stories blend,
In poems that to all we send.
Verses from the Clinic
Each page a tale, each line a spark,
Of days spent healing in the dark,
Of triumphs, losses, joys, and strife,
Captured in the vet's own life.
An Ode to Innovation
With ChatGPT by her side,
A partnership where worlds collide,
Technology and vet's own art,
Together form a work apart.
Invitation
Join us in this poetic ride,
Where AI and vet’s worlds coincide,
"AI Poetry from a Horse Doctor's Life,"
A book where verses come alive.

I was dubious of this AI generated content. I never use AI in writing my novels. NEVER... But I find that ChatGPT does create a nice poem and the above is a good example. I urge you to try it for yourself.
Stand by for the launch ~July 1st and preorder details.

This will be in eBook form only unless I am asked to become the poet laureate for veterinary medicine.

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