�Saturday evening I took Brenna outside and we saw Duke, the neighbor's yellow lab, out as well (see the attached picture of a previous play session). So we walked over together and I started up a conversation with James, Duke's owner. In the meantime Brenna had made a mad dash to Duke's front yard, and Duke made a mad dash after Brenna! Picture taking a wad of playdoe and smashing it in a rolling fashion to make a noodle. That's what Duke did to Brenna, barreled her right over in a rolling fashion. At twice Brenna's body weight, and at about 20 mph, this shattered one of Brenna's outside toes and caused a fracture on a second inner toe.�
As an aside, I asked the vet to let me take a picture with my digital camera of the X-rays in hopes to use it for the 2008 Calendar. While cropping and processing the pictures I discovered the other cracked bone that the vet missed (the left circle on the X-ray). I'll show him on Wednesday when we return for the follow-up.�
This morning when we got up, her injured paw was now a club foot! It was extremely swollen. I then new a trip to the vet was prudent. So we had a 1PM appointment. BOY I'm glad we didn't wait any longer!�
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
�She is doing GREAT at the moment! All the prayers and Love from everyone is working. You would never know she had broken bones right now by the energy and Springyness she has! I don't know if it is the pain killers or what, but we'll know more at 4 when they remove the bandage and re-examine the wound area. If all is well they will then splint her paw. I intend on somehow painting it pink, or wrapping it with pink tape and getting Morgan and Michelle's piano students to sign her "cast"!�
�Well, things were going much better than planned, up until about 10 minutes ago. The check out at the vet went VERY well. All the prayers helped! She has a very normal sized paw now. The vet decided he wanted to allow some more time for drainage of the abscessed area, so he decided to not put a splint on yet. Instead, we are to leave her incision in her paw between the two toes open to the air and spray more antibiotic (GentaSpray Topical Spray) on the open wound several times a day. So that's where things went a bit sour. We did the first spray and apparently she licked it or some sprayed in her mouth and she became violently nauseated and puke her head off for about 10 minutes! They should have warned us about that when giving us the spray, I think. I send this to you all in case you ever have to use the same stuff.
Other than that incident (which she will recover from, no doubt), she will have her stitches from the surgery removed next Thursday, at which point if all looks well, we will both be back to our morning long walk routine!
I'll keep you updated more before then. We did see Duke's owners tonight and told them that it will be a VERY long while before we will ever let Brenna play with Duke again. Basically we told them that until Duke grows older and settles down a bit, Brenna is just too small to play with him. They offered to pay our vet bill. I told them that wasn't necessary, and no hard feelings, it was just an accident.
Well, I gotta go spend some time with my sick girl. More latter...�
�All I have had to do when she starts paying attention to her wound is say to her "leave it" and she immediately stops licking it. She is one smart girl and I think truly realizes we are all working together to heal her foot. She places a lot of trust in Michelle and I with it and just seems to understand when I catch her starting to run and say to her "slow down", and she actually does slow down.�
�Talk about one happy girl!!! The smile one her face in the first two pictures comes from her getting to take her morning country walk like she used to.