At the emergency vet - again

Oh Lord, Caro, I am shattered. I know you are feeling the weight of yet more illness and injury. If there is any way we can help, please tell us. In any case...

Dear St. Francis, Beloved Tully is so ill. Her little frame is so very fragile. You were fragile, too, and yet you persevered. Please lend Tully your Heavenly strength to weather this crisis. Reach out to Caro as she faces the pain of having a sick little one. Please ask the Good Shepherd to look upon this beautiful family at this, His special season, and grant his healing power to one of his precious creations.
In His name we ask,
Amen
 
Caro, I so wish you were near some of us here in the US so we could lend a hand. You must feel exhausted and overwhelmed...and poor little Tully to be suffering so much pain. Life can be cruel. My heart goes out to you as you try to help Tully and keep your others in line. Many hugs.

Trini
 
Ditto what everyone has said - we all wish we could physically lend a hand to you. I'm just so sad Tully is struggling. Can you use a big towel under her lower abdomen to help her out to pee? It is worrying that she isn't going - you don't need a bladder/kidney infection on top of everything else. Is she drinking?
 
Chris said:
Oh Lord, Caro, I am shattered. I know you are feeling the weight of yet more illness and injury. If there is any way we can help, please tell us. In any case...

Dear St. Francis, Beloved Tully is so ill. Her little frame is so very fragile. You were fragile, too, and yet you persevered. Please lend Tully your Heavenly strength to weather this crisis. Reach out to Caro as she faces the pain of having a sick little one. Please ask the Good Shepherd to look upon this beautiful family at this, His special season, and grant his healing power to one of his precious creations.
In His name we ask,
Amen
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AMEN!
 
Trini I wish I was closer too, I'm exhausted.

The good news is Tully has worked out that she can put the splinted leg down and she peed! Yea! She even plodded over to a favoured spot to pee. She'd pee then plop down, pee then plop down, but she did not want my help so I just had to let her work it out. Straight after she peed she finally had a drink, first time since it happened. I don't care what the vet says, Tully knows drinking=peeing. She threw up her supper last night, but I wonder if that was because she was so dry and had reflux.

I did have a scarf wrapped around her but she wasn't happy about it. Now she has her flyball harness with the handle on - at least that will help me pick her up.

I think Tully may even be okay to leave for a couple of hours so Kismet can go to the big indoor dog festival with her little buddy Milo. I'm thinking there will be long waits because there's still limits on numbers indoors, so I was going to cance;. But I know Kismet would have a ball and she has been good for a bored teenager. Must remember to dig out a mask. Even though we are Covid free here and don't need masks now, Sydney (4hrs away) had a small outbreak and I can't risk getting sick with Tully sick.
 
Caro said:
Trini I wish I was closer too, I'm exhausted.

The good news is Tully has worked out that she can put the splinted leg down and she peed! Yea! She even plodded over to a favoured spot to pee. She'd pee then plop down, pee then plop down, but she did not want my help so I just had to let her work it out. Straight after she peed she finally had a drink, first time since it happened. I don't care what the vet says, Tully knows drinking=peeing. She threw up her supper last night, but I wonder if that was because she was so dry and had reflux.

I did have a scarf wrapped around her but she wasn't happy about it. Now she has her flyball harness with the handle on - at least that will help me pick her up.

I think Tully may even be okay to leave for a couple of hours so Kismet can go to the big indoor dog festival with her little buddy Milo. I'm thinking there will be long waits because there's still limits on numbers indoors, so I was going to cance;. But I know Kismet would have a ball and she has been good for a bored teenager. Must remember to dig out a mask. Even though we are Covid free here and don't need masks now, Sydney (4hrs away) had a small outbreak and I can't risk getting sick with Tully sick.
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Very happy to hear Tully seems to be working it out...she's a tough cookie! Did you get the results yet of the X-ray? Praying it's not a bad break!
 
I spoke too soon. She had explosive diarrhea just as I was leaving! I was getting dressed and came out to find her pen empty. Running around calling her and panicking, eventually I found her at the bottom of the step in the laundry, obviously trying to get to the back door to poop (I did put pads in her xpen). Must of fall trying to get down steps because she just lay there, defeated, but luckily unharmed. She also managed to hang on until we got outside, what a good girl she is. She also decided to jump off the couch at lunchtime! So she's locked into the xpen now, before she hurts herself and gives her mum heart failure!

This evening I took her outside at dusk and let her sit in the backyard while I did a bit of weeding, she was happy to sit outside for a while. Otherwise she has been sleeping, but is very nauseous. Hoping it's the residual of the pond and the rancid chicken and it will settle.

I still took Kismet to the doggy fair, she loved it, so many puppies. We met up with her puppy playmate who is now about 5" bigger than her. It was hilarious seein the two together.

Oh, and I forgot to say, the xray showed nothing, which was no surprise. He said the bones are so fine and compacted in that he couldn't see. I knew that would happen because even in humans you often can't see a fracture in the bones of the feet until they start to calcify. Bit of a waste of $, just showed that it wasn't a bad break, but I didn't think it was. The big issue is the loss of ligaments which will require screws and surgery - a fracture alone would have actually been better.
 
OMG! I would be totally grey haired after this recent episode! Poor dear Tully! I sure hope her tummy resolve s itself soon! No fun for her or you to deal with diarrhea especially with the cast! I wish surgery was not necessary. Please give her a soft pat and lots of cuddles! Thanks for the detailed updates!
Glad Kismet had a good time!
 
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