O'Hanluan Kerries of Alaska

Unadulterated straight talk from a one-handed hunt & peck…

 

 

Sunday evening – dog bite L forearm

 

 

Monday morning – Urgent Care

• Redness outlined & dated; Photos of injury
• Dressed arm placed in a splint
• Antibiotic injection in rump & oral Augmentin
• Work release for Monday & Tuesday
• Planned recheck Tuesday morning

 

 

Tuesday morning – Urgent Care for recheck

• Clean/dressed wounds
• Referral to hand specialist
• Work release for Wednesday thru Friday.

Tuesday early afternoon – Hand Specialist

• X-Rays w/o fracture
• Prescribed additional antibiotic Doxycycl & Epsom Salt baths BID
• Recheck scheduled Friday morning

Tuesday evening – Home on Rest

• 1st Epsom Salt soak in bucket
• Ibuprofen continued to be my friend

 

 

Wednesday – Home on Rest

• Explosive diarrhea
• Epsom Salt baths in bucket x2 (forearm, of course)
• Silver lining in cloud: 1st shower.  Wounds remain open & draining.  Tapered back on Ibuprofen.

 

 

Thursday – Home on Rest

• Persistent diarrhea
• General aches & pains from too much bed-time added to specific aches & pains
• Persistent question: how to rearrange my life for zero % chance recurrence
• Silver lining in cloud: Tolerated OOB all day!  Returning appetite.  Sense of humor grossly intact

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moral of Story; aka WARNING: DO NOT keep two intact male terriers and an intact bitch within the casual home environment. This may quite probably require a serious kennel setup.

 

Instinct trumps training.