[nagdu] Small injury

[Lisa]

Hi everyone,

thanks for all your suggestions!
So yesterday evening I had a sighted friend come over to check on Taylor. By 
that time, he was behaving completely normal and also had stopped licking 
his leg. My friend examined both his forelegs carefully but couldn't even 
see the cut anymore. So it must have been tiny.
After the incident and when I noticed he caused the wound to start bleeding 
again, I put a bandage on the leg to protect it a bit from his licking 
attacks. To my own surprise, it stayed on and he left it alone after a while 
and went to sleep. So I was sure there was no new blood coming. When my 
friend was here, I removed it and well, as I wrote, everything was 
perfectcly fine. So I've learned that there can be some blood without a 
serious emergency. That was important for me. :-) So next time I won't be so 
shocked.

Raven, that nose injury sounded painful. Poor dog! Your vinegar solution 
sounds good! I had been looking for something like this to keep in stock.

Lisa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raven Tolliver via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Cc: "Raven Tolliver" <ravend729 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Small injury


>I would spritz 50/50 apple cider vinegar and water on the wound. That
> is my solution for all wounds because it is phenomenal at healing
> things quickly and without infection.
>
> One time, my dog somehow bashed his nose open, there was a 1 inch by
> 1.5 inch section of skin gone on the top of his nose. Must have done
> it rolling around on the carpet and banged his nose on one of our cast
> iron chairs. Anyway, after I got the bleeding to stop, I applied 50/50
> acv and water to the wound every couple hours until it scabbed over.
> He would occasionally rub it on the floor because it was irritated,
> but I would make him stop and clean it again, then gently rub at it
> with a dry paper towel and some coconut oil to ease the itchiness.  It
> healed up within 1.5 weeks. And the hair grew back in under a month.
> -- 
> Raven
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>>> On 11/3/2015 9:54 AM, Lisa via nagdu wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> so today Taylor had his first smaller injury since he's with me so I'm 
>>>> a
>>>>
>>>> newbie on this topic and would be thankful for any advice.
>>>>
>>>> We have a low bathroom shelf  and on top of that was a glass. Taylor
>>>> managed to push the glass to the edge of the shelf and let it fall on 
>>>> the
>>>>
>>>> floor. So apparently it broke, I was immediately there and took the dog
>>>> into another room to remove the shards. But then I noticed Taylor was
>>>> licking his forelegs and when I touched them, there was blood on my
>>>> fingers. At first, I was very terrified just because I never 
>>>> experienced
>>>>
>>>> such an incident before. But I washed the legs with a wet wipe and 
>>>> tried
>>>>
>>>> to see if there was a lot of blood or just a bit. Luckily, the latter 
>>>> was
>>>>
>>>> the case. There seemed to be a small cut on his upper leg but the
>>>> bleeding had already stopped. The prpoblem was, however, that he was
>>>> licking his leg continously and caused it to start bleeding again.
>>>> I decided it was definitely no emergency and probably no case for the 
>>>> vet
>>>>
>>>> at all. But still I'm a little insecure about how to handle this. 
>>>> Should
>>>>
>>>> I let him lick the wound (that btw. I can't even  find and nothing 
>>>> seems
>>>>
>>>> to hurt him so it must be very small) and accept the fact that it 
>>>> starts
>>>>
>>>> bleeding again, or should I maybe bandage it and hope that he won't be
>>>> able to lick it then?
>>>> What really makes me insecure is just that I couldn't overlook the
>>>> situation properly. I was so scared at first.
>>>> So, experienced dog owners, what do you personally do in such a
>>>> situation?
>>>>
>>>> Greetings from Germany
>>>> Lisa
>>>>
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