You can't keep a good Corgi down...

We are now done with week three of the healing process. We've had three more vet visits - only one of them planned, and one of them was another ER visit (ARGH!). On Tuesday the 7th Dash's stitches were removed. The first thing Reggie noticed was that we had a new cast - so we explained our ER visit of the 22nd. Dash is healing well, but has a sore spot at one end of the incision site. So we traded in the gold cast for a Carolina Blue one again - just in time for the ACC tournament. Dr. M. got ribbed abit about the color, but defended himself by blaming it on me... far better than the first splint with the DUKE blue... NC State Red would be okay in a pinch. (I've searched the internet and cannot find FSU Garnet - or I'd bring in my own.)

Thursday (the 9th) Dash spent the day "cleaning" the tape off his cast, and ate his way into the bottom of the cast. Joy. I'm due to leave early on the 10th for a scrapbook weekend - apparently by way of the vet's office. I did get a walk-in appointment Friday morning to check to see that he hadn't done any damage. We then returned home to rig a bottle to the bottom of the cast - to protect his foot from sticks and dirt... In hindsight, I should have asked that the bandage be changed as the sore spot was worse than I thought - and Dash pulled the stuffing that was protecting it out. Dash could hear Dr. M. in the back and was cocking his head in attention. In spite of the indignities he has suffered he LOVES to visit his friends at Triangle.

Sunday night, I returned from my weekend away, to be greeted by an exuberent puppy. So much so, that in less than 1/2 hour he knocked the blue cast out of whack. So I called the Pet ER to let them know we were coming (He did it Again???...), finished unpacking the car as they warned me that they were expecting four other pets in the next 20 minutes - and we are 40 minutes away, and stuffed the miscreant into his crate. Everyone commented on how well he gets around in his cast... A little too well if you ask me. I cannot slow this boy down! We came home with a teal cast covering this time. While there, I got to help by holding him, and attempted to take a picture of his wound - but forgot to save it on my phone (that is one piece of electronics that just mystifies me).

Monday Gus and I celebrated Dash's recovery by buying him his very own BiteNot collar. It is an improvement over the E-collar which was driving all of us a bit nuts. So now my Corgi looks a bit like a canine giraffe. Thursday we have a bandage change appointment where we are going to learn how to do it ourselves - so that hopefully we can heal the little guy - and prevent more visits to the nice vets at the ER.


X-Rays are next Tuesday! Yippee! I'm hoping for lots of good bone growth so that we don't have too much longer in the cast!