hi - and thank you all for your uplifting, helpful notes
i am going to read them again closely asap to make sure i answer any questions that you kindly took the time to ask. thank you also for knowing just how i feel about my babies and being just as frustrated re: how irresponsible and outlandish the people involved have been so far.
a little update - i have renewed concern about ellie as it
appears her middle toe on the foot she's been holding up is broken/dislocated .. some swelling too. HOPING ITS NOT AS BAD AS IT LOOKS, THAT IT WILL IMPROVE and that the vet did not miss this -even though the look of it is not right and she's holding her foot up a lot. getting ellie back in a carrier with only one hand is pretty impossible, taking her all the way back to the vet, and worse, after losing days i wonder what hope would there be for proper healing? the toe seems to have 2 'bumps' that i don't see on the other foot's middle toe, at approx 1/3 and 2/3rds up and it seems to kind of wiggle to the side when her middle toe on the other foot stays steady,,,she does walk using the troubled foot when necessary but i imagine it really hurts. so i wonder.what can be done days after the fact if it isbroken or dislocated (if that's even possible..)...
i worry that herability to move fast when the need arises may be forever compromised.. hopefully it's just really angry but not broken/dislocated.
the aco left a message friday that she was delivering 2 tickets to the dog owners (dog at large and not sure about the other one - maybe re: my injuries) - unfortunately, given her attitude i am concerned about what she said to them and hope it wasn't 'dogs will be dogs, they were just chickens, and she shouldn't be taking it this far'. her message said she also wanted to drop something off to me aswell as relay something. i wasn't home (was being driven on a couple of errands) but returned her call promptly, got voice mail and said she could just leave the info for me. but i never received anything.
i have attorney appt tomorrow - pulled their number out of the book pretty randomly - not sure the best choice but we'll see, having never sued anybody before i didn't really know who to call.
i do know that my hand is fiercely angry - precious little sleep since this happened wednesday..and so little getting done......yet so much needing to get done. unfortunately my good job ended a few months ago (a nonprofit that lost its funding) and i've been temporarily in a very low paying nonprofit job looking for the opportunity to get back to decent pay so if my current salary is used to figure any loss of work, it's going to be strikingly insignificant. murphy's law.
more later - thank you thank you - eager to reread posts asap...
jj