Hobbit

:o ......um....that didn't make as much sense as I thought it would, but you know what I mean. :wink:

[quote name='corgilady'](waving hand frantically in the air) I have one! I have one![/quote] :lol: :lol: .... pants on fire...you have TEN in ONE body!! :lol: :lol: and they are ALL trying to get out at once....... :drinking:

The Surgeon called a few minutes ago and said Guy was doing fine. And he personally done his physical therapy today. He said he done so good --- after he gave him LOTS of pain killer! :o Well, duh! Sometimes I wonder...... He wants us to leave him until Sunday and pick him up then (after more x-rays). He said he'd call tomorrow and we can decide then. :drinking:

[quote name='Carolk9s']Sending my heartfelt best wishes to Guy and his loving humans. Hope he will be ok and you will get through this without crashing yourself due to the worry. Hang on little Guy, lots of love coming your way.[/quote] Thanks, it helps....really helps.

[quote name='Jacsmom']Ok so no need to send the Calvary and Deep to the Ortho. Surgeon Office Yet??? Were there any Pugs around to keep Guy company?? :lol:[/quote] :lol: not yet. The Airlines won't ship an injured dog; so we'll just have to drive him to NC! No, Pugs this time. The vet said he was walking Guy and a Boston Terrier came wiggling up to him and he just froze, then hid behind the vet. The weenie! He said Guy had no problem with the larger dogs, but didn't know what to think about the small ones. :lol:

Thanks. It really helps and means alot that everyone sends their well-wishes.

[quote name='Anonymous']I have [i]heard [/i]that cold weather can actually lighten a dogs nose, sometimes even to the point of making a black nose pinkish. I don't know if it's true or not. Obviously, something more serious is wrong with Willow, but I thought you may be interested . Hope he gets better. Connie[/quote] Connie that is true. The tyrosinase enzyme responsible for producing the dark nose pigment is unstable at low temperatures. Low temperatures causes the tyrosinase enzyme to stop the chemical reaction, and tyrosine conversion to eumelanin in the skin will occur at a much slower rate. Thus, pigment will fade.

[quote name='Mei-Mei']There's Light Golden, Dark Golden, Golden Golden and Extra Crispy Golden...I have no idea what they hey they are talking about! :roll:[/quote] OMG --- I was reading and saying, Oh -- light Golden, how pretty; Dark, hum that's nice; Golden Golden, i bet that's pretty....... then :o :lol: EXTRA CRISPY > realized you were kidding! :lol: :lol:

.....you know I can't stop there...... Is it made by the "Porcine" company?? :lol: :lol:

[quote name='K']Roo my tea pot does not dribble it has a corkscrew effect in the spout to create a better stream 8) (Hobbit DO NOT go there :o ) [size=1]Bit like a pig then[/size] :oops:[/quote] Oink oink ......

We have 3 Border Collies. :wink:

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He's going to Canada. :roll:

[quote name='gigishiba'][quote name='K']I hear ya Hobbit! I once found one of my Daughters playing with the applicator of the tampon using it like a pea shooter :o[/quote] Oh, tears running down my face!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:[/quote] Oh yeah!! I'm trying not to fall out of the chair >> got that mental picture and everything! AND the look on your face!

The Surgeon just called and said Guy done well overnight, but wants to keep him until Friday late. He said he'd wave the ER call for last night and the next two days. Whew. Why? Well, my theory is because he's writing a research paper and since he MUST do so many a year to keep his job > he'd hate to lose this paper. Since Guy is the first dog in Texas to have the halo. Jacsmom - we discussed the charges and post op visits; it's like this with every "surgeon". A regular vet wouldn't touch Guy's leg and we obtained several oppinions. They all refered us to Orthopedic's. They are going to do some intensive therapy for the next 2 days to make sure this doesn't happen again. Makes me feel better. I worried because if it happened on a weekend, or when the Surgeon is off for Christmas (Dec 23 to Dec 31), we would either have to wait until he got back or use another Dr --- who was a "fill-in". If we take the halo off now > he is going to have to plate the Ulna because it still has a nice gap (it's all the Ulna's fault! :) ) It's growth plate closed too early -- that caused the leg to bow, because the Radius wasn't finished growing and caused the elbow to the pulled out of it's socket (OUCH). So, the elbow has been repaired. AND the ripple effect has stopped. Good thing. So, we are between a rock and hard place. We are just going to take this one day at a time.

Pat, unfortunately he's an Orthopedic Surgeon and they charge for EVERYTHING --- on our itemized bill, I wanted to laugh but was just rolling my eyes > they charged for the medicine bottles that his med's came in. Yep, .75 for a pill bottle. Connie we asked the same thing. He just said, well -- THIS wasn't supposed to happen in the first place. So, he could not guarantee it wouldn't happen again. It's not likely, but our luck isn't likely anyway. What are the odds that the pin was placed in that particular region exactly next to major artery? If you didn't know, right next to the artery or in a bundle, are nerves. So, you know how painful that must have been > arching and sparking on a nerve as well as the artery. :-? I forgot to add, after he pulled the pin out, he surtured the hole closed in an effort to get the bleeding to stop. And he is back on Butorphanol (Morphine derivative). On the way to the hospital, he'd look out the window at the cows and look at me --- look at the cows --- and beg to go work them. He'd get excited when we pasted some in a pasture. Such a workaholic.

Maybe it was just a 24 - 48 hr virus bug and now it's over. Hope he recovers and feels much better.

Thanks. When we started all this, we never imagined all this would happen. I was just thinking to the day that the halo came off and he had a month of recovery, therapy, swimming to build him back up, and then on to do what he LOVES more than life --- herding the goats around. Never imagined this ---- I've appologized and asked forgiveness for this one.

[quote name='Horsefeathers!'] Hobbit, I never did hear back from my witch doctor. With my ridiculous schedule (working out of town, leaving early and home late), I haven't been able to go by her shop and she still hasn't emailed me back. I even sent a follow up email. I would call her except I never have a minute in the bloody day to even have lunch these days. If I got you a phone number, would you be interested in trying? Just let me know... [b][color=red]Yes, I would be willing to call her -- send phone via PM, when you get time (move your computer into the bathroom and when you're.....um....sittin' a spell, just type away!! :lol: [/color][/b] ....Guy's .....this was his magic bullet and everything would be ok. [color=darkred][b]Yep, the magic bullet tried to bleed him out today (posted in Health). [/b][/color]:( Perry's surgery an exorcism. [color=red][b]Guy could use this! Glad to hear is doing much, much better. Please keep us posted, that goes without saying, tho. [/b][/color]:wink: Learned a valuable lesson this week... leather upholstry and dogs do not mix as well as it would seem. Just think... in 36 months, it'll be all mine. 'Nuff said. :-? [color=darkred][b]Bummer, but like you said ---- it will be all YOURS in a few short months. [/b][/color] [/quote]

:cry: :cry: We've been home about 20 minutes (it's 10:46pm). Guy tried to bleed to death about 4:00pm today. One of the wires was rubbing an artery and it just rubbed it until it rubbed a hole in the artery wall --- dear Lord you have seen all the blood. Guy was out for his daily walk and it was like a pressurized water hose wide open. Blood was spurting everywhere. His wrap was literally soaked and dripping. Of course, we headed for the house --- trying to put pressure on it to make it stop, Guy would move, it was spurt --- blood on the wall, glass door, many places on the floor, porch and a trail from where it started. Two wash cloths, and 3 kitchen towels --- soaked. More towels and finally got it stopped. His leg swelled twice it's normal size (from the blood draining into the tissue). We loaded him up and took him to the Surgeon (2 hrs away). He pulled one of the pins out and said he needed to keep him over night >> gee, ya think?!? He also said, something like this isn't supposed to happen ( :o ) ... okay, it did. He said it's very rare, but can happen. YEP...it happened. The nice thing, Guy saw the nurses and the Surgeon and started wagging his tail. He was giving them all kisses. He really likes them > so, it's hard to be mad at someone your dog likes! So, we wait for him to call us tomorrow and hopefully Guy will get to come home. Poor Guy. I'll be glad when this is all over. I looked at the x-rays (some that I hadn't seen) and he has made GREAT progress with the leg, but it's all the other stuff that goes along with it that sucks. Something that made me do :o was we talked about other options. One option, he said was to leave everything like it was and continue and hope the Radius has not grown back together. Option 2 - go back into surgery and re-saw the Radius in half and keep lengthing the leg. Option 3 (the :o ) or amputate the leg. #3 is NOT an option! :x His leg still functions, it's just an inch shorter -- at no fault of Guy's (not genetic fault, a break fault). Anyway, I'm rambling --- it's late and I'm going to be in about 10 minutes. What a nightmare.

[quote name='deepseasnake']first off, iy was quite funny for me to read your post Hobbit because Ive got [b]Black Sabbath's [/b][i]psycho man [/i]playing, so it made perfect mood music to your ranting to strangle the vet :lol: how long have you been using this vet? and are you in an area that offers a variety of vets or are you kinda rural? hey I'll extend the same offer to you that I did to Mei, [img]http://users.telenet.be/eforum/emoticons4u/violent/sterb110.gif[/img] you just let me know if you want the problem solved :wink:[/quote] Deep, unfortunately it wasn't something that was easy that a general vet could take care of --- no, it had to be Orthopedic Surgury...by of course, an Orthopedic Surgeon.

[quote name='gigishiba']I'm sure it's better than Ol' Roy! :wink:[/quote] :lol: :lol: I think anything is better than Ol' Roy --- what trash. I know several people that feed it to their goats. Their goats are fat and have the prettiest coat (very shiney). I had a horse (a long time ago) that LOVED dog food. He would beg for it and would steal it, whenever he could. He was the nicest horse, followed me everywhere, could cut a calf or put you where you needed to be everytime to rope. He was one in a million.

$3750.00 and every visit is $150.00 --- we go once a week.

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:lol: :lol: at least I could stop digging thru his poop like a mad person! Yep, the bucket treatment...that will make him stop or go insane. Guy's post op appointment is posted under Health --- what a mess.