Well I think we've had a setback.
This morning I noticed that the vet wrap around the splint was falling off. I also noticed that the ends of the popsicle sticks had come uncovered and were digging into the sides of her foot. So I decided to unwrap it all and redo the splint. Under the bandage, I realized that the scales on her legs were also peeling off and she had a sore rubbed by her ankle. She fought me the entire time and was kicking with both feet, hissing, and biting. I wrapped her in a towel except for the leg I needed to work on.
So I put a clean non-stick gauze around the leg. Repadded the popsicle sticks and re-wrapped them around the leg with new vet wrap. Just as I had done before.
This evening I checked in on her and noticed that she wasn't standing on the leg at all. I picked her up out of the cage and she's kicking but the injured leg is just hanging limply. She isn't moving it at all. I felt both feet and they feel the same temperature. Both a tad cold. I felt along the entire length of her leg all the way to the hip joint. She doesn't respond at all. Not like anything is hurting her or even just out of annoyance. If I touch her non-injured leg, she will kick at me. So now I'm concerned that one of the following has happened -
1. I wrapped the vet wrap too tight and her leg is numb. But if that were the case, wouldn't she acknowledge touch above the splint such as the hip area?
2. That in her thrashing and fighting me, she dislocated the hip joint.
3. That she re-broke the leg in her thrashing about when I tried to re-splint it.
Sadly I can't get her back into the vet until sometime next week because I'm out of town tomorrow to Sunday.
