Saturday 2 July 2011

No sure what heading...

when time stood still...how can things change everything in a blink of an eye.....
Mindy has seriously hurt her self. We wont know the course of action or outcome until Monday, we have been sent to the specialist in Exeter, along with her x-rays.

how did she do it?
Well Mindy is like Zebedee or Tigger from the cartoons, she is always bouncing around, spring upwards, either to try and get our attention or excitement for her food or training etc. This time we had trained on Thursday morning, some seesaws and weave entries, I put her along with Harry back into the house whilst I took big dogs out for their walk at the same time as picking up their weekly pork and lamb bones and bringing home to chop up, I left big dogs in the car whilst I took bones to chopping board and went into house to get bags to put them in and then freeze (I always freeze my bones before they then get defrosted and eaten a week later, kills off bugs etc) I started chopping with Harry and Mindy the other side of the door and she was bouncing up and down looking out the glass in the door, when she screamed, I rushed to the door opened it to find her on her side screaming, so off we went to vets, since then it's been a blur, but basically she couldn't move her back legs and was paddling around with her front, I thought broken back, slipped disc etc etc....after x-rays she came home with IV in so we could administrate pain killers, so she didn't have to stay in the vets, anyway she ended going back in after only a slight improvement, so had been given stronger pain killers and sedatives until they got the level right for her and in the mean time sort the specialist out, the pictures look good along her spine all even gaps etc as far as we can see, but she still cant stand, but she has two what look like breaks in her pelvis, one looks more serious than the other.......
They wanted to keep her in until Monday, but after sorting out her fluids and pain treatment we are sorted in having her at home with us, but then she pulled the IV out when we went to give her last lot of meds, so now I've learnt how to do via the phone from the vets, how to inject into her scruff, when I got it in my head that if I didn't she would be in pain, she screamed as I was too "Pussy" doing it, so now I know "Just do it", so fingers crossed we get on okay doing that until Monday, she may look like a pin cushion by then...

Monday the plan will be to take her to Exeter for her 11 am appointment with Peter Attenborough (spelling) and they will inject a dye into her spinal cord and see what going on, along with them looking at the x-rays or doing their own and see what is happen, then we can go from there. We have been told she is by no ways out of the woods, we are just thankful we have her at home...
So please folks keep send us lots of happy calming vibes for now and until Monday at 11...
Thanks everyone again for all your Face book messages and texts, we may not get around to answering them all, but I cant tell you enough how comforting it has been to have you all here for us..
THANK YOU XXXX

2 comments:

Hudsondoglets said...

You are all very much in our thoughts. Praying you get some good news tomorrow xx

Lel said...

Angela, you have always been there for us through all our dog's dramas, most recently Sprite's eye & Stitch's foreign objects x 2! I only hope that things work out for Mindy as well as they did for Sprite & Stitch. Sending you a big hug and thinking of you X