This is one of those crazy things. We’ve seen lots of dogs with severe wounds that needed help, lots of nasty messes. Officer Petix has posted pictures of a lot of damaged animals. What is it that makes a particular case “speak” to people? Why does this guy generate 300,000 shares and an outpouring of […]
Category Archives: Wound Care
My uncle used to be in the law enforcement profession. He told me stories of prisoners being stabbed with a “shiv” and not even being aware of it until they weakened due to internal bleeding. Something like an ice pick makes a very tiny hole, and when you stab someone in the back, it’s not […]
This is Ling Ling. She’s some kind of a Collie mix, or something. Sweet dog. Her picture here was taken a few years ago to illustrate her owner’s great idea for bandaging the elbow. Who doesn’t have old socks lying around? I use this technique all the time now. Last summer, she came in for […]
Five weeks, and Dizzy ate on his own for the first time. When he continued to do so for a few days, it was time to pull the feeding tube. I've unwrapped the bandage (we've changed it weekly) and you can see the tube going into the side of his neck, into his esophagus, and […]
Two more weeks of nursing care (four weeks total so far), and it looks like the infection is all under control. I'm thinking it's time to try to repair that upper jaw, and try again to re-attach the inner cheek surfaces to the gums and cover up that naked mandible bone. So, it's sleepy-time for […]
So now we're a couple of weeks into this mess. In this picture, you can see that his tongue is healing well. Some of the stitches have already dissolved, but a couple of them are still hanging in there (the purple things). You can also see the wire that is holding his mandibles together, and […]
And the diagnosis is: I do not know. One thing seems evident: it wasn’t a hematoma (ruptured blood vessel). Things really changed in the next two days after I posted last on my poor hand. The swelling became greater, the finger more red, and a spot near the first bend in my finger started turning […]