FML

shortycole2 · June 2011

While I was home alone, Dexter pulled his entire arm out of his cast and splint. Just popped it right out. Toe was obviously not set and still broken (major bummer there, but I assumed it wouldn't set right), he was walking all over it, and generally freaking out, and immediately started licking his stitches.

I pinned him to the wall of the crate and put the cone on him to keep him away from his stitches. BAD F'ING IDEA! After I got it on, he started trashing around and banging his entire body into the sides of crate (and jumping all over with the foot). Nothing I did could calm him down. I called David in tears, and he and a friend left fire drill early to help me. While our friend and I pinned Dexter down, David put his foot back in the splint but didn't reset the toe (since we have no idea how to even do that, and it's been healing all week in an un-set position, which doesn't seem to hurt him much), and wrapped it up, put an awesome sock on it, and taped it with duct tape. Dexter looks awesome, but it keeps him from messing with it, and it's nice and padded so it shouldn't hurt him.

We have an appointment on Friday already scheduled to take the cast off anyway... and there is not much we can do about the toe between now and then. So I'm going to call the vet during my lunch tomorrow and explain the situation, but we'll probably decide to just wait until Friday. David has wrapped Dexter's injuries more times than I can count. It's a bummer the set and splint got f'ed up, but since his toe was already unset, it's not any worse than it was before. still majorly sucks though.

I CAN'T WIN! The only good thing out of the evening was that I got to see (and smell) his stitches which have been wrapped up for a week. They look great and no smell at all, so healing nicely. And I'm actually feeling okay about the toe still being broken because he's walking and standing on it (when the cast was off I was begging him to lay down and he was just standing right on it, NBD, all "shut the f up momma" and trying to run away from me), so that gives us hope it won't have to be amputated. Fingers crossed, ugh.

C_mo · June 2011

yikes! Poor Dexter, that must be really hard to deal with

Was there a reason that they didn't set the toe in the first place? Maybe, like you said it is healing well on it's own and won't have to be messed with anymore... much less amputated (I cringe at the thought of that, poor puppy!). I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!