[Ag-eq] Dover Update

[Susan Roe]

Nella,

I think Dover is feeling the effects of finishing his pain pills.  Not that 
he is in pain, but now he is a bit more restless and definitely deciding 
that being a house dog is not the glamerous life he had been picturing.  LOL

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
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Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Dover Update


>
> Susan:
>
> I'm glad to hear that poor Dover is getting better.  To bad about all the 
> set
> backs.  I'm with you, I don't know how a broken neck can't be to bad!
>
> He is a lucky dog to have survived this and to have you to care for him.
>
> Take care of yourself.
>
> Nella
> Quoting Susan Roe <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>:
>
>> Dover is still hanging in there, but has suffered a slight set back as of
>> last Thursday.  At the base area of his staples, he developed a pus 
>> pocket
>> that openly drained and had a horrible smell.  Matt took him Thursday to 
>> the
>> vet and they had to do surgery on his neck because the infection was not
>> being cleared by his antibiotics.  The infection had gone down through 
>> his
>> torn and seperated neck muscles all the way down to his neck bone.  If it
>> were to penatrate into his spine, then it would turn into miningitus 
>> (sorry
>> for the spelling) and we would have to put him
>> down.  They x-rayed his neck and decided he had actually broken his neck, 
>> but
>> not bad?  How can braking your neck in a beaver trap not be bad!  It 
>> seemed
>> that it chipped a piece of bone.  They sewed the muscles back in place as
>> best they could, scraped away the infection, sewed him up with stitches 
>> not
>> staples
>> and put in two open drain tubes.  These open drains were no fun with him
>> inside and we had to wash his neck with antibacterial soap once a day. 
>> Once
>> he's back outside, I'm gonna really have to scrub my floors.
>>
>> So, with all of his new medications including pain pills that had to be 
>> given
>> every 8 hours, he had to be brought inside out of the elements and 
>> insects.
>> Someone was up with him 24/7 because there was no place inside we could 
>> close
>> off just for him and he was not crate trained even if I had one big 
>> enough
>> for him.  All of this was done while Matt still had to pull his four 
>> 12-hour
>> work shift.
>>
>> Matt took him back to the vet Tuesday morning and they removed the drains 
>> and
>> were extremely surprised how well he was doing and that he was able to 
>> lift
>> his head up above his shoulders.  The stitches still stay in one more 
>> week.
>> I do believe that the novelty of being inside is starting to ware off for
>> poor Dover.  LOL  He is not an inside dog and has never delt with a leash
>> until he came here.
>>
>> We have been keeping strange and difficult hours because
>> of being up with the dog 24 hours a day/night.  I have been doing Matt's
>> hours, going to bed with him at 9:30 a.m., getting up at 4:00 p.m., and
>> staying
>> up all night in order to wake Pattie up while she dozes downstairs, 
>> whenever
>> Dover may need to go outside.  He is just way too much for me to handle 
>> him
>> outside, so I keep watch and nudge the others when I think he needs to go
>> out.  Hopefully, this will only be for one more week.
>>
>> It is not easy getting all of us on a schedule that works for each of us 
>> and
>> bennifits Dover as well.  He'll take his last pain pill at 2:00 a.m. on
>> Thursday.  I have a feeling he's gonna get a bit more wrestless without 
>> the
>> pills chilling him out.  If he wants my attention, he just basically puts 
>> one
>> paw on my knee, then my stomach and then proceeds to look at me nose to 
>> nose
>> as though he's looking into my eyes saying, "Hello in there, can't you 
>> see I
>> want your attention!"  LOL
>>
>> Susan
>> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
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