Showing posts with label emergency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emergency. Show all posts

Monday, 16 January 2012

Molly's back to being Molly!


After so many vet visits (I've actually lost count how many times we were there) me and Molly are officially done with them :-)

We had one emergency visit in the middle of it as she some how, we think possibly with the help of Jess, pulled out her 8 inch tube. I came home from work at 5:10pm and was rushing around trying to get ready for my driving lesson which was at 5:30pm, in the process of running round the house getting myself sorted I went up to see Molly as unusually she didn't come to greet me at the door. That was when I saw it. The tube looked similar to a white balloon, the bit that you blow in was supposed to be just falling out of her chest but somehow the entire thing had been pulled out of her body. I screamed for my mum, I was running out of time and I ran straight for the phone to call the vet. They didn't calm me as once I told them what happened they replied "bring her in as soon as you can, no appointment necessary, we'll see her! 

I couldn't cancel my driving lesson though, so I dropped the two hour lesson to one hour and my parents rushed her to the vet. It was very possible she'd be put in for another operation but thankfully things had healed a little quicker than expected and the vet said she could have taken off. Thank goodness!

Other than that it was appointment every other day to check progress. She was on a cream and two tablets per day (which I had to sneak in her meals as she really didn't like them).

But on Saturday the vet said it was time to take the stitches out and that was it. No more vet appointments!

She's gradually got more and more like Molly throughout the recovery period. She seemed to like the cone as she would hit everyone in their knees so no one stood in her way and she's now so crazy it's like nothing ever happened. I'm looking forward to taking some 52 week pictures outdoors as indoor light is pretty rubbish so things are on the UP!




Monday, 2 January 2012

My poorly little Molly


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Today has been pretty awful...

It started off so normal, we woke up, had breakfast, got in the car and headed off for a countryside walk. We  have that same routine all the time but on this occasion Molly had a scuffle with a Jack Russell Terrier which bit her so hard under her front left armpit the skin was actually dangling against the leg. 

I was a complete mess, there was blood and as it was a bank holiday it took a while for us to find a pet hospital that could take her. We did eventually find one an hour away and they said, as we expected, that it was a pretty bad bite. 

We had to leave her there for a 4 hour operation where they trimmed the dangling skin off and sowed the wound up. As it was so huge, it had to be drained too and of course she had to be put under general aesthetic to have this done. 

We finally got her home about an hour ago - she's still pretty groggy from the drugs and we have numerous visits back to the vets so they can keep an eye out on things but she seems pretty okay. 
They've shaved her fur and over the bandages is a purple wrap so it looks like she's wearing a jumper.

My girl is fine though and after being at the emergency vets, I saw 3 different families who didn't get to take their beloved pet home.... Molly was the lucky one today.  
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