Ewwwww

This dog's eye popped out. Obviously.

And Dr. C fixed it. Obviously.

Cuterebra - Gross (Cool) Case of the Week

Anyone ever heard about when a fly lays an egg under the surface of your skin, and a maggot grows underneath the skin? There was once a case of this on the discovery channel where a woman had a huge maggot growing into the side of her head. This pooch had one growing under his cheek. Pretty graphic pictures, but kinda' cool. At least we think so. :)

Ole Freens.....

Well, Freeney is causing havoc again.....

When we moved into the new house, he just didn't seem to be adjusting well to the move. At all. He was pretty much spastic, and was all over the place, knocking things over and jumping on things, etc. We could tolerate the jumping and being spastic part....but the ONE thing that we were NOT willing to tolerate was him tearing up our new house. Hey, it's a new house, right? And it's really nice. I wasn't really fired up about having scratches everywhere. His new thing that he found to do, (note: he has never done before) was to jump up on the door frames as if he was going to crawl up to the ceiling. Of course, he doesn't have front claws, so his efforts weren't very successful. However, he DOES have back claws.....so upon finding a place to gorge them into the wood, he would then slide down the trim, leaving cat claw marks all the way down our trim. Yeah. No. Not happening. So, upon realizing that he's done it to two or three doors, he promptly went to the clinic to have his back claws removed as well.

The first time that we declawed him, it was because of a lot of the same reasons, but it was our couch and comforter at the old house. He didn't do so well with it. His declaw sites all came open, he chewed on his feet, and he ended up having to wear his bandages for a LONG time, and it didn't heal all that well. (I blamed the veterinarian.) We thought that perhaps he was too young. Well, the same thing happened THIS time.

I went to pick him up at the clinic last night (where he has been for a week now), and when I picked him up out of his cage (with his e-collar on), it was covered in blood, and all of the declaw sites were open with bone showing. He sat there for the whole day shaking and chewing at his feet, and even managed to get them around the front of a 12 inch e-collar. So, to sleep he went again, (of course temporarily) and this time, Dan actually put STITCHES in his feet.....two or three per site. So, now Freeney has stitches in ALL of his back toes, pink bandages on them, and is staying at the clinic longer now. What a pain. Why does our cat have to be a troublemaker? Nothing is easy with this guy. Here are some pictures:

I think he was a little ticked off about his injection here in this picture.

One foot down, one to go......

All finished, with his pink bandages. And yes, those are all of his nails sitting there next to him.

With his little e-collar on. That he somehow managed to get his feet around to chew on them. Crazy cat.

Hopefully he'll be able to come home here in the next couple of days. Dan's colleagues are probably getting tired of babysitting him. :) Stay tuned for details.

Warning.....

Do not put flea and tick medicine on cats. This is what happens.......

Gross case of the week....

This is what happens when you try to save a few bucks on a spay. Intestines. Protruding right out the incision.......

Freeney is no longer a man.......

Freeney has been getting a little on the wild side lately, and starting to act like a Tom cat. He has been biting people (ie: Marcus, Beth, Dan and I, my niece, etc.) and howling and growling. He wants to run outside all the time, too. We were afraid that he was going to start peeing on everything in the house. So, Dan took him to the clinic with him last night. This is a picture of him in his cage. That is my black and grey sweater that is laying there with him. He loves to lay on and smell my clothes, so Dan thought he would take something along with him that would remind him of "mom". Later in the evening, I got the following email with photo attached:

Dad,

Can you put those back, please? I'll be good, I promise!!!!

Love,
Freeney

Well....that's it. He's no longer a man. He's an "it". :) And yes, I do agree that it's a bit morbid and gross that Dan would take a photograph of our cat, half sedated and crying, laying next to and looking at his own testicles laying on a piece of cotton. However, I was so inclined to share. :)

Weird Case of the Week.....

Sarah just recently asked if I had ever worked on these.....and the answer to that is HELL NO! I got to work yesterday, and this bat had been euthanized by my co-worker, for rabies testing, due to having bitten a child. Otherwise, had it not been already dead, I would have NOT been caught touching it!

By the way, it is a bat. :)

Worth a picture.....

Two separate cases. The large dog was HBC and had a dislocated hip and more. The small dog was dropped on it's head and had a fractured skull. We were just so busy I was working on both at the same time and was on the phone with the small dog in my hand standing next to the large dog. When I looked down the big dog was licking the small one. Worth a pic.

What are the odds??

Dan and I have been MIA for about two weeks. No blogs, haven't left the house much, we're pretty pathetic. This all started almost 2 weeks ago now. On Thursday, I came to work as usual, and my eyes were really irritated. I washed my contacts off several times that day, but they were burning, irritated, and itchy. I got home, and hopped in the shower, where I took my contacts out and was going to resort to my glasses. Well, no more than I got my contacts out that I realized that something was seriously wrong. I couldn't open my eye, it was sensitive to light, and felt like I had a handful of sand in it. I laid all night on the couch with my eyes shut, and got up and went to bed around 11:30. At 4:00, I woke up, and my eye was hurting soooo bad that literally, no kidding, I was screaming in pain. I wanted to cry, but my eye hurt too badly. Finally, at 5:30 a.m., Dan couldn't stand to see me in such pain, so he took me to the emergency room. The ER doctor on call did confirm that I had indeed scratched my eye, put some good ole' tetracaine on there, and numbed it up. I felt sooo much better. He prescribed me some antibiotic drops, and some heavy duty pain meds, and off I was. Dan had a house call in Monticello, so he stopped off there and did his house call. While he was in there, the pain meds started to wear off, and I was in just as much pain again. The doctor wouldn't give me any of the numbing drops. Well, lucky for me, I live with a doctor who would rather give me the medicine than he would listen to me whine. So, off Dan was to Lafayette to get a bottle of tetracaine. (Yes, in the same class of drugs as COCAINE.) To make a REALLY long story short, the scratch got infected, and then turned into an ulcer, and it took me over a week to recover. If you have never scratched your eye, let alone gotten an ulcer in your eye, it's the most painful thing I've ever experienced. I have been hit in the face with a shotput, and it didn't compare to this. I'm really really lucky to work in a place that is so understanding and great about it. I was off for a week, although I did work remotely for two days last week, although I'm back, and feeling much better now.

Now,......on Friday night (yes, the same day that Dan took me to the ER in Monticello) he called me and informed me that he himself was on the way to the emergency room in Lafayette, as he had just gotten bitten by a dog. The little chihuaua bit him right on the pinky finger, and bit clear through his finger. You could see his bone. I rushed in there, although to discover that it wasn't quite as bad as I had expected, but still felt terrible, because although I've never personally been bitten by a dog, I have heard that it's incredibly painful. So, we were both in the ER in the same day. What are the chances of that?

We're both healing nicely, me probably a little better than him, if you can believe that. His pinky is infected and swollen, and he can't straighten his finger out. It's gotta be painful.

So......here's the picture. Living proof. Our hospital ER bracelets. Priceless.

Cat Case

This guy came in from Brookston this morning. Was outside and when he came in, the kids noticed the wound. Of course he wouldn't let them, or us, take a good look at it so under gas anesthesia he went...

After clipping and cleaning. No idea how he did this...

Nice huge flap in the worst spot. Here we go...

Inserting a penrose drain and taking a break...

47 stitches and an hour later.

Not verry happy and ready to go home.
I'm sure he'll LOVE taking his medications...

Have a good week.
Dr. Dan

Don't let this happen to Bogey!

This little guy's eyeball fell out....but he's all put back together, and good as new!

There's another one in there!

An xray to confirm, a little oxytocin to induce, and a little twist and tug. I could have delivered Baby Gage. :-)

Dr. Dan