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Hi, and thanks you guys for checking in on Ellie and me.
With help (so there would be 3 hands instead of just 1!), after Ellie had been splinted and bandaged for 3 weeks, we removed that stuff on Wednesday (it took forever to oh so carefully cut everything away witha teeny tiny scissor - she was flinching a lot and I didn't want her to get cut). Her middle toe (the dislocated one) is deformed, fat around that first joint up high on the toe and kind of wobbly there. I don't care what her toe looks like, only that she not experience pain or be compromised in speed that may be crucial to have some other time.
The vet said to keep the bandages on for 2 weeks minimum but to try for 3, and so she had that stuff on for the full 3 weeks. Now she is holding the foot up a fair amount - maybe some cramping from having been wrapped up that long, I don't know. Will watch to see if that improves with the bandage off a awhile. I feel so badly for her. When she is interested in stuff, she uses the foot fully (when it was bandaged and since) to get where she wants to go but then in an idle moment she seems to need to rest it. After the attack on May 13, her foot looked okay at first - it was over the course of the next handful of days that the dislocation became extremely obvious - it got worse and worse as the days wore on. I'm hoping this will not be the case now, or all that time bandaged wil be lost - and it WAS NOT EASY keeping them indoors everytime the ground was wet, which around here seems to be all the time in the past several weeks and in the next several days to come.
Me - I'm in a removable cast/splint now as I am supposed to do exercises 45 minutes a day to try between last week and the end of June to be able to make a fist. So far the fingers will not bend and they scream if I try! Doc said if I can't make a fist by the time I next see him, then I will have to have physical therapy and there goes the summer and all that was supposed to get done (or dare I say, all that I also wanted to do...).
Lawyer - I wrote him to ask for copies of any correspondence. I then received 2 very brief letters the firm wrote the dog owners and their insurance company, saying only that they were representing me in this matter. I asked the attorney whether I could reasonably be assured that costs for things I can't do myself right now (e.g. mowing lawn) would be covered so I know whether I can hire folks for some things that are getting way way behind. The response left me with questions ("Any monetary cost that you are expend is capable of being reimbursed to you from the settlement of your case") but he did say to keep records. I know he doesn't want to attempt to settle too soon, because the longevity of my injuries is not yet known but other than that, I have no info.
Will be back with any updates as they develop.Thanks so very much for everything - the concern, the advice, keeping me company...
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JJ
With help (so there would be 3 hands instead of just 1!), after Ellie had been splinted and bandaged for 3 weeks, we removed that stuff on Wednesday (it took forever to oh so carefully cut everything away witha teeny tiny scissor - she was flinching a lot and I didn't want her to get cut). Her middle toe (the dislocated one) is deformed, fat around that first joint up high on the toe and kind of wobbly there. I don't care what her toe looks like, only that she not experience pain or be compromised in speed that may be crucial to have some other time.
The vet said to keep the bandages on for 2 weeks minimum but to try for 3, and so she had that stuff on for the full 3 weeks. Now she is holding the foot up a fair amount - maybe some cramping from having been wrapped up that long, I don't know. Will watch to see if that improves with the bandage off a awhile. I feel so badly for her. When she is interested in stuff, she uses the foot fully (when it was bandaged and since) to get where she wants to go but then in an idle moment she seems to need to rest it. After the attack on May 13, her foot looked okay at first - it was over the course of the next handful of days that the dislocation became extremely obvious - it got worse and worse as the days wore on. I'm hoping this will not be the case now, or all that time bandaged wil be lost - and it WAS NOT EASY keeping them indoors everytime the ground was wet, which around here seems to be all the time in the past several weeks and in the next several days to come.
Me - I'm in a removable cast/splint now as I am supposed to do exercises 45 minutes a day to try between last week and the end of June to be able to make a fist. So far the fingers will not bend and they scream if I try! Doc said if I can't make a fist by the time I next see him, then I will have to have physical therapy and there goes the summer and all that was supposed to get done (or dare I say, all that I also wanted to do...).
Lawyer - I wrote him to ask for copies of any correspondence. I then received 2 very brief letters the firm wrote the dog owners and their insurance company, saying only that they were representing me in this matter. I asked the attorney whether I could reasonably be assured that costs for things I can't do myself right now (e.g. mowing lawn) would be covered so I know whether I can hire folks for some things that are getting way way behind. The response left me with questions ("Any monetary cost that you are expend is capable of being reimbursed to you from the settlement of your case") but he did say to keep records. I know he doesn't want to attempt to settle too soon, because the longevity of my injuries is not yet known but other than that, I have no info.
Will be back with any updates as they develop.Thanks so very much for everything - the concern, the advice, keeping me company...
JJ
