NORTHERN CAPE. – Lisa-Lodene Smith, also known as Boervrousmithie, suffered serious injuries when a bull attacked her on Tuesday, 8 September on their farm in Nieuwoudtville in the Northern Cape. Her mother, Wiekkie Labuschagne, shared more details about the incident on social media.
According to Labuschagne, the bull attacked Lisa-Lodene and pierced her with its horns. Her husband, Ryan Smith, killed the bull. He saw that she had already lost a lot of blood from her wounds. Lisa-Lodene is 19 weeks pregnant following two miscarriages. Labuschagne said Ryan realised there was no time to wait for an ambulance and took her to Van Rhynsdorp, where a doctor cleaned her wounds and stabilised her.
She was then transported by ambulance to Malmesbury. There, the doctors operated on her. Her condition is now stable. According to Labuschagne, a gynaecologist visited her in the hospital on Wednesday and confirmed that her baby boy is unharmed. However, Lisa-Lodene is still in considerable pain and receives physiotherapy daily in the hospital. According to her mother, after her discharge she will need to continue physiotherapy and also require wound care. The family's farm is 317 km from Malmesbury.
In a separate post on BackaBuddy, posted by Megan Fasching, further details about the incident are provided. According to it, the bull threw Lisa-Lodene into the air, after which she fell on her head and back on a stone table. The BackaBuddy post says Ryan killed the bull with his pistol after seeing him attack his wife. It also states that according to the family there was no time to wait for an ambulance and that the fund was unwilling to send a helicopter without a doctor's referral letter according to the post. According to that post, one of Lisa-Lodene's wounds on her side was massively large. Several arteries that were pierced by the bull's horns were, according to the post, stitched by doctors, but no organs were injured.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
