[nagdu] broken ankel and more

[Marsha Drenth]

hi Jessica,
Sorry to hear about your ankle. I totally understand, as I am dealing with a broken rest myself. I hope things start to heal. And that you can start set work your dog very soon. Please keep us updated on how things are going.


Marsha drenth  
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> On Jun 3, 2014, at 10:39 PM, Jessica Roberts via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> Its been a while since I've written.
> I came home with Garbo my female yellow lab on April 10th.
> She is such a wonderful dog and I can't believe we've been home for
> almost 2 months.
> We got back into the swing of things and she does routes like she has
> always done  them.
> She amazes me.
> Unfortunately, about a week and a half or 2 weeks after I got home I
> got very, very sick, pneumonia type sick.
> Just as I was getting over that on May 8th, I was walking my son to
> daycare int eh early morning, my husband behind me.
> My back was hurting as it sometimes does, and I was jsut not doign
> well, my body was jsut tired from being so sick.
> I thought we were at a poitn in our route wehre you have to step back
> and allow the dog ot go in front of you and follow her to the right,
> so I did that, and accidentally stepped too far, was not at the right
> spot, my mistake completely, and fell off a 1 and a half foot drop
> intot he street.
> My girl came to me, even though I dropped the handle, and licked my
> face, whining, she thought it was her fault and it wasn't.
> I cralwed on teh sidewalk, and cried, it hurt so incredibly much.
> Somehow I got back up and somehow leaning on her and my husband got
> Noah to daycare.
> I then got on a bus, you see I was on teh way to take my biology final.
> However the pain got worse and worse and I was about to puke on the
> bus, so when we got to the transfer point we got off and got a cab to
> the hospital.
> The exrays were inconclusive.
> It was so swollen they couldn't see.
> The next week I went to the ortopedic, and they did more exrays, and
> sure enough there was a hairline fracture, along with tendon damage
> and swelling on and around the bones.
> They put me in a brace that goes on my foot and all the way to my
> knee, it keeps the ankel still, and I use crutches or a cane,
> depending.
> Up until yesterday my husband has been feeding, relieving, etc. Garbo
> because I simply couldn't, and still can't to a large degree but have
> started while holding onto him takign ehr out once a day to workon our
> bond.
> She still listens well to me, I'm just hopign she wont' have lost her
> training when I can work her once more.
> TSE said they'd send an instructor and a balance handle out to me once
> I'm healed more.
> She is such a tropper just lying quietly and playing sometimes thorugh all this.
> Does anyone have recommendations of things I can do with her to work
> on our bond or to make sure her guide work doesn't go away?
> Also does anyone have tips for practicing off leash recall and being
> able to enforce it, she comes to me sometimes but only when she wants
> to and that's frustrating.
> Thanks so much and sorry for the rambling.
> Jessica
> 
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