...not home 24 hours from my last trip when Diamond decides to break her leg. Yeah, you heard me. She decided that it would be a good idea to slip on her way up some wooden stairs. The dumb part is that she was at the same house on the same stairs she had been on for the last 2 weeks. Anyway, she was running back up the stairs when she lost her footing or something and slipped in between two of the stairs (since wooden stairs don't have a vertical backing between connecting one to the next like indoor stairs do). Needless to say she plummeted about 6-8 feet down to the snow packed frozen ground.
She did quite a job too. For you medical types, she gave herself an oblique fracture of both the Ulna and the Radius in her right foreleg. Basically she broke clean through both bones in her forearm. I immediately picked her up and could see it was bent while she screamed bloody murder. I call it a scream because her whine is so high pitched it might as well be a scream. I carried her inside where my friends also have a min pin and when she heard Diamond she decided to join in the misery. It took us about two minutes to get them to stop.
Well, long story short, I took her to the pet emergency room, they knocked her out, took x-rays, splinted the break, and gave her pain meds, and I spent my entire tax free from my trip to the desert. Oh, well, that's life I guess.
Anyway, now you know why I haven't blogged since I have been back. Here is a picture of her in her cute pink splint...it has hearts, but you can't really make them out.
She is getting around much better the last few days, but the vet is going to put an even longer splint on on Friday so that the joint above the break will be immobilized too. Apparently, since the emergency vet was a girl, and couldn't have been a boy scout she never learned that both the joint above a below a break must be immobilized for proper healing. (J/K!)
Kilroy was here!
