i am so mad....hurt and devastated as to my Sh!t luck lately...
i cannot even comprehend the implications of it all...
car trouble's galore...financial troubles that you wouldn't believe
and now THIS on top of it all....
what happened is this.... my dog and i were out in the front yard
and i was moving my whole car load of plastic pots out of my car to the upper barn... then i threw the 6 inch rubber ring for my fantastic queensland blue healer named star,and she is a STAR in every way.
poor thing... i am soooo destroyed over this... and feel so stupid and guilty thst you cannot even imagine it...
i threw the ring where i normally never throw it, because the greenhouse materials are in the way of the regular retrieving path ok... and i didn't want her to get hurt running into the lumber.
i only threw it once but thats all it took... i heard a blood curdling yelp and she stayed yelping as i ran to see what happened and i thought she had broken a leg....at least....with that much pain.
well it was even worse... she ran full boar at around 40 mph into this friggan property marker stake and peeled the skin right off her chest like a banana...and as i approached her i saw something hanging down but wasn't registering what the hell it could be.
it was her skin...around 8 inches of it...a 2 inch wide strip...and she only weighs 34 pounds so for a dog her size thats allot... well then the blood started to flow and i was just freaking out and carried her into the house to wrap her up and to stop the bleeding as fast as i could. My van has a brake valve that leaks so i couldn't just jump in the car and drive her to a vet... so in panic mode i dialed 911 and they sent an officer and the dog officer to rescue us...
1 minute later the wife pulls in and we scrambled down the road
hoping to intercept the dog officer en route to a vet..and we had no idea where to even go. then we see the cruiser with the blues on..and flag him down...
he has us follow the dog officer to the nearest clinic two towns over and we get her bandaged up but then have to drive to the emergency animal hospital in Springfield because she's gonna need anesthesia
and a pro surgen to fix this wound right and someone whos up all night too.
now we have to drive all the way to Springfield and its another 40 minutes to get there...on the way we are stopped by the cops for driving too fast with the flashers on... and we explain hey emergency situation man... and he lets us go right away... thankyou SIR
fianlly we get to the hospital and it takes another 30 minutes or so to finally see the Doc who was more than excellent. they hit you up on the spot for 50% of the estimated cost which is over a grand...
yeah like us poor farmers have that kind of dough in our pocket at 930 at night....give me a friggan break...
so luckilly i was able to call my greatest brother and we are able to pull it off with an American express card for now...
the dog can be saved....it'll take time to heal her up but shes absolutely my best friend and my only child ..... kinda..
we cannot afford this disaster..plain and simple... it's a real bad situation... to say the least... i'm a wreck...never have i experienced something so unpleasant ,gory. and sickening.
it smelled just awful like cleaning out a duck after shooting it..
you hunters know what i mean...
shes in good hands but the poor dog has a long tough road ahead of her...thats for sure...
here's a picture of this idiotic metal stake she ran into...
i'll jack it out of there in the morning with my high lift jack and a chain... it was the boundary marker... instead of a wooden stake.
this is an awful thing to have happen.... is all i can say as
tears are welling up in my eyes just thinkin about it all....
gotta go now... dammit to hell
