Bad News- My foster puppy, Ranger, age 8 months, got out and got hit by a car Sunday evening.
Good News - As of today, Tuesday, he's going to be ok.
SundayI took all four of my dogs out the gate to visit DoggyKamp. With 310 pounds of dogs pulling on me, I forgot to close the gate behind me. When I came home, hours later, I came in through the breezway, and let the dogs out into the back yard. A minute later, I found the backyard empty. Earl, Kendra, and Dudley were three houses away. I got them home a minute later.
I saw Ranger four houses away in another direction. A young lady and her mother were following him, and said he had been running like he was on a mission, when he darted into the street. She hit him before she had a chance to stop.
Ranger is at VCA Betline under Dr Marta Guevara's care. Nothing is broken. He has a nasty laceration on his front right leg and a small abrasion above his right eye. Xrays showed air in his chest cavity ( pneumothorax ) Dr Guevara has him on oxygen, and drained 2 liters of air out of his chest. She said his color was better, and his second xray at 9:30 looked better, but was showing more brusing on his lung(s). He did walk himself around to go potty.
MondayRanger's condition did not change much overnight, but Dr. Guevara thinks he's stablilizing. He was panting again, so Dr Green tapped his chest again this morning, but only got 1 liter of air this time, and his color is good. He went to the bathroom outside, his blatter was so full, Dr G thinks part of his breathing problem might have been
discomfort from the blatter.
TuesdayThe report on Ranger was very good today. The oxygen in in blood was almost at normal levels. While he still has some air in his chest cavity, it is continuing to improve. Dr Green is still not comfortable with knocking him out to repair the laceration on his leg, but it should be able to be fixed tomorrow, and then he can come home.
Thank you to everyone who has sent me encouragement. Now, please send me stuff to put in a garage sale to pay for all of this medical attention. If you have anything, please bring it Saturday to the AAP. Kids clothes and denim jeans sell great.
Please hurry, the look Cindy keeps giving me for spending SPIN money has me scared!
(FYI. Cindy is former President of SPIN, and current treasurer. She is the original Scrooge, unless it comes to doing something for the dogs. She hoards all of SPIN's scheckles, but this will test her patience. If anyone can help, please help me survive her wrath)
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