End of 2014

Oh yes, oh yes.  I was one lucky lady this Christmas.  A new camera! 

 

All in good fun!

 

And how was your day?

 

 

 

Never a Normal Holiday

We can't have a normal holiday.  Nope, not ever going to happen.

Right before Christmas the boys came running in, telling me that Bella was bleeding.  I went out and expected the usual Bella level injury.  Nope.  After cleaning it out and applying pressure, it still continued to bleed, and by bleed, I mean flow.
I wrap her in gauze, vet wrap and compression bandages and call the vet. 
We get there and leave a trail of blood from the parking lot to the treatment room.  This is us as we walked in.

Our tech, Wyatt, took over because our Vet was in emergency surgery.  Unwinding my soaked mess of a bandage, he starts to evaluate the wound.  He clamps the vein and we wait.  Normally, after clamping, the bleeding stops. 

I laugh at the concept of normal. 

After clamping, we had to go with stitching.  We completely soaked the treatment room.

In the end, she had a pretty bandage and had to spend the night.

I called and asked how she was doing.  She was angry, hated the staff, hated the clinic donkey and could I please come get her?

 

This lasted until just after Christmas when she became progressively more lame.  Back to the Vet, x-rays, and we have....

a bone chip!  And upper joint fluid leaking.  She is currently spending a few more days to do regional infusion treatments to force antibiotics into the bone and joint.  In theory, she should make a full recovery. 

 

And how was your day?