This is a blow is and I've been over here for a good long while and you might might wonder where I've been or maybe you don't wonder maybe you didn't even miss me I don't know, but I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you what happened to me It uh, it uh, it uh It was my own blame thought. I know better than to do what I done, but I done it anyway You just wasn't thinking see I got stepped on by a calf and uh, I don't know how many of you out there are familiar with what caves or not But see they they they clumsy they can't hit that and that calf didn't mean to step on me He didn't go to do it. It was my own fault for getting in his way But anyway, I'm gonna tell you what happened. It was only uh January the seventh as when it was and uh, I had Uh, milked the cows and I'd come to the house and me and old Emily had breakfast And then she went on to school and I went on out to the barn to feed the caves Don't you see and uh, when you got these little caves that has been weaned away from the mamas Well, see you have to feed them this mixture of water and and feed until they get a little bigger So that they can eat grass and do the stuff that grown cows do and so I took uh, I took a mixed up the feed form will see I've got this radio in the barn And I don't ever pay much attention to it.
It's it's out there mainly for the cows Believe it or not because the cows like that radio and uh, some of them just listen at it You know and it it comes from down and I keep it out there now Sometimes I'll listen to the news a little bit, but ordinary I don't listen to the radio at all that way But in a way That particular day I was mixing up the feed for the cow for the calves And uh, they started playing this song on the radio called a don't mess with my tooth Tooth is what the song was and I never had heard that before and I didn't know what they was talking about So I started listening to it to see what that song was about and what they meant by don't mess with my tooth And uh, I you know when you're feeding the calf You've got this bucket and it's got this nipple on the bucket and the calves suck this nipple And what you do is you're supposed to hold that bucket out in front of you And then when the calf comes up to drink you gradually slowly back away from him because he'll step on your feet If you don't know he don't mean to he's just hungry, you know, and he just acts like any kind of a wild animal that that's trying to eat So uh, I know that I've been feeding calves for a long time and I never have been stepped on before But I got to listen to that song and I wouldn't pay no attention to what I was doing and directly I got my foot in the way and that calf stepped on my foot And I don't know if you know it or not, but calves is heavy I mean they really are and so that was hurting my foot and I put my other foot up there to kind of brace myself So I could get out from under that calf and when I done that that calf stepped on my other foot And I was in a mess then and I threw that bucket away And that calf of course he went with the bucket because he wanted to get the rest of that food So then of course I fell down because I was in bad shape. I'm telling you he hurt both of my feet And so I crawled over to the uh, uh, the the hey I had some males I hey snacked over against the wall And so I crawled over there and sat down on that hay and I couldn't move I couldn't walk and I commenced to hollering for help But there wasn't nobody around you know to hear me and uh, so I didn't know what I was gonna do because I couldn't walk I'm telling you and so I had this old dog old black dog. He's uh, I've told you about him before His name is Toby and he's a great big old dog and he's got some great dang in him I think but he's a big old dog looks like a horse and uh, I never did think old told he had much sense Because he you know, he just played and and all the people, uh, Like him and they play with him and uh, he ain't no kind of a watch dog or nothing like that He just uh dog that I took him and and I like him, you know, I like old Toby But he ain't much good for nothing or I didn't think he was anyway But the first thing he old told me done was he come over there and come miss lick him and trying to get me up Well, he finally figured out that I couldn't get up And so he went on out of the barn and I thought he was leaving me I really did but he went across the road over there That's where old flossie butts lives and he went over there to flossie butts house And commends to wagging his tail and jumping around like he always does and old flossie butts thought that he just wanted to play And so she was trying to pet him and old Toby kept backing away from her And she couldn't understand what he was trying to do Then he'd come back and she'd pet him again and and he'd back away from her And she couldn't make no sense out of it. Well directly old Toby come over there and grabbed her by her bridge's leg and uh Commissed pulling her Well, she finally Come to her that he might be wanting her to to follow her So she started walking and showing up he got in front of her and he walked across the road over there With her and took her straight to the barn and that's when she found out that I was hurt And I couldn't get up no way.
No how and so she went down there Got in her car and went down there and old Roscoe white and and Luther and old uh old Ben was plowing down there and she told him about it and they come up to see about me And uh, they put me in the truck and carried me to the doctor And the doctor x-rayed my feet and everything and he said that my right foot was just bruised But uh, he said that I had broke a bone in that left foot And he said that they would heal back But what I was gonna have to do was stay off of them and until they got well He said to what really anything that he could do he said he could give me some pain pills You know keep it from hurting but what I was gonna have to do is just stay off of my feet until they got well and uh And uh, I said uh Well, doctor or purpose I said I don't know what I'm gonna do because I've got all these cows And they need taking care of and they got to be milked twice a day And I don't know how I can stay off of my feet that long I said what's gonna happen to the cows And he said well there wasn't anything that he could do about that and he said he didn't know what to tell me He said I was gonna if he wanted my foot my feet to get well I was gonna just gonna have to stay off of them and that's all there was to it Well old flossie butts she was standing there and she said well blowers You come on home and said you got to do what the doctor says and you've got to stay off of your feet And she said we'll we'll have you all we can she said There's lots of people in this community that looks out for people and she said you know You looked out for people when they had the troubles and said we're gonna look out for you until you get back on your feet So they carried me back home and took me in the house and the doctor had put this boot Oh my Foot with that had the the broke bone he'd put a boot on there and he'd give me these crutches So that he said you can't walk for a while, but he said Uh you you when you get where you can he said you can get around on the crutches a little bit But he said you can't do no work you can't get around them animals until you get back on your feet So uh, I went on I sat down or laid down there for a while took one of pain pills Well about four o'clock that afternoon o Roscoe and and uh and Luther come back and they said uh blowers We come down here to help you said what can we do? And I said well uh them cows need milking and they've got to be fed And he said well you tell us just exactly how to do it and said we'll do it Whatever you tell us to do uh, we'll do it just like you want us to so I Scribed to him just how to feed him cows and how to put the milkers on them And I finally had to get up I couldn't didn't feel much like it But I had to get on them crutches and go out to the barn to show them because it's kind of hard to Explain to people just how to do something if they ain't never done it before But anyway, I sat down on the hay over there and told them what to do and they done it Just like I told them and they said uh, we'll be back down here in the morning Don't you worry about it? And uh, so about that time here come a whole bunch of the kids down there from the school See they had spread the word old flossi and loother and uh Roscoe and they'd spread the rumor or spread the news to the school and all these kids come down there They was high school kids and some of them was boys and some of them was girls And they said uh, mr. Porter we come down here to help you We heard what happened to you and they said we're gonna help you all we can You just tell us what you need us to do and said we'll do it and said what's more Some of us will be down here every day until you get back on your feet And said we know that you're gonna have to have your house clean said we'll take care of that and we'll take care of you Animals whatever you tell us what you need done.
We'll just do it for you So, uh, i'm gonna stop here but that you know that really surprised me I know that had some good we had some good kids in this community But you know first kids to say that and to tell you that they're going to work for you free of charge For a month till you get back on your feet just because they want to do something good, you know that kind of uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, restorgy You faith in humanity, so i'm gonna stop right here But i'm going to tell you the rest of this story in the next podcast about what these what these kids done But it really did make me feel good to know that they were people in the world that would help you that way