Follow me on Twitter I walked into the animal hospital today with a bandaged foot and ankle, and a splint – and I walked out of the animal hospital with just a bandaged foot and ankle! I feel so happy I could run a mile.
Except that I’m not allowed to walk more than a block in each direction.
No splint, just bandages. View of my paws and ankles, from behind.
In fact, Jane and Phil are still keeping me on my short lead whenever we are outside and I’m still on the lead when we go up and down stairs.
In fact, in some ways I’m more limited now that the splint is off. Since I now have more pressure on my leg and less support, I have to be more careful than I’ve had to be recently. With the splint I was going up the stairs and down the stairs numerous times a day. Now they only let me upstairs once – to go to bed for the night – and downstairs once – to go out in the morning for my morning walk with my dad, and I have to stay downstairs all day.
Still I feel lighter and happier! My leg is getting more air and there is less irritation.
Many people look at my leg and still see the bandages which are currently bright blue (to humans) but to me – do you remember? – is a pale blue. They can’t tell that the splint is not there under the bandages. But it’s not there!
Dr. Bill, my doctor was leaving the animal hospital and moving to another city and this was his going-away present to me! He was going away but he gave me the going-away present. That’s the kind of doctors I have.
Joey-
Congrats on getting your splint off!!! I recently broke my wrist and after several visits, I went to the doctor and he surprised me by taking off the cast (FOR GOOD!) and giving me a sports brace.
It actually hurt me more at first because the cast was supporting me. This happened before too when I broke my other arm several years ago and – it really hurts more at first.
But then you are free!! I could shower and no longer smelled (forgive the expression, “like a sour dog”). Now you can get your mommy to take you swimming at Crystal Lake!!
Keep up your healing!!
Hi and thanks for your good wishes!
Actually, I’m not free and I still cannot go swimming. I’m still all bandaged up and very limited movement. The xrays are scheduled for next week The thing to learn with all of this is patience! Lots and lots of patience! My parents have been teaching me patience and I’m learning it, reluctantly.
Glad you’re feeling better too. With the foot and ankle it’s tricky because that’s where I put all my weight.
The bad thing is that while the cast was covered, my insurance did not cover the sports brace even though I was not allowed to take it off EVER (except to shower).
We need Obama’s health plan NOW
There is such a thing as pet health insurance but since I don’t handle the finances in our family, I can’t write about this matter. My brother cat, Mickey, had a heart condition starting around the time he was 4 years old. My mom brought him back and forth to the hospital every year for checkups and tests and he took medicine three times a day. One day he died. We start out as cute little puppies and kittens and we become cute big dogs and cats but we require maintenance!
Does Obama’s health plan cover dogs?
The second day without the cast usually feels better- is it that way with you too Joey?? I hope so. Don’t worry though when the pain comes and goes. I remember reading when I was a kid that “old people” could feel storms in their bones. It does hurt my old injury when a storm comes on. This also happens when it gets hot and muggy! So don’t worry; it goes away. But it would be cute if the Weather Channel could feature you telling them when a storm is coming. A lot cuter than featuring an “old” or middle aged lady or gent!
Hi again and thanks for caring about me and how I feel.
I felt pretty good right away after the splint came off. I am much more comfortable now. I didn’t have a cast, but a splint. Many people confused the two, my parents did too, so let me explain how they’re different: The splint is more flexible than a cast. When I go in for a bandage change, the splint comes off and the doctors wash my leg and toes and apply antibiotics. Then they re-bandage my leg and put the splint back on and wrap all of that with more bandages. The doctors gave me a splint so that my leg would be able to flex more. I don’t know what you mean by “pain” but I’m not chewing at my bandages and my parents don’t put the cone on me, if that helps. The only time I complain these days is when I am looking out our screen door at the poodle across the street and am not allowed to go out and say hello or socialize with him or her. I’m not sure if that is pain or pleasure because I’m sounding like a cross between a cow and a child’s swing set, but my tail is wagging.