I don't even really want to write about this. So maybe I'll skip my long explaining sentences and hope ya'll understand. I don't want to write but kind of feel I should, in case of possible good advice I may need and cause I could use your prayers and such, so here goes.
Hubby and I leave-pick up check-buy hay-bank- other errands-return home about 3 hours later (about 11am today). Hear our babies bleat as we drive up-all but "Anchovy"- she is "SCREAMING" as we drive up-hubby dives out to run-I follow-he screams broke leg -blood etc. -I approach-he exits massive bushes with her both all bloody-he says get my bag and I say vet-he says no ME(My family thinks I can fix everything but I don't think so) I round up help as I run for bag and start barking orders at boys. THANK GOD girls are gone-he lays her on new milk stand-she had found a spot where the fence (chain link) between the neighbors and our backyard was loosened from the top rail and tried to go over-caught her leg and jerked and jerked til she ripped it open something awful!(still don't know if loose fence wire or brush or what exactly went into her leg and tore it-I start working-panic/stress-oh,my-injury is bad but I've seen worse-almost exactly like the injury the coon just recovered from-coon was worse,she did have broke leg and bone poking out- "Chovy" does NOT appear to have a break, just awful,huge hole-lots of lost blood-huge portion of thigh is scraped and pretty hairless-must be in shock-being so sweet-quiet-motionless resting-just laying on side holding head up like they do when chewing their cud- I have about everything except suturing supplies-drats-I can't get an answer on the phone from my sister the nurse-oh well I have seen my daddy make do more than once with a needle and thread-it does work- it was double threaded and soaked in betadine-stuff starts flying-sodium chloride irrigation-betadine scrub-two sutures far apart just to close it a little-left very open for draining works good sometimes-this is one of those times, I think it's best-antibiotics-gauze-vet wrap-finally breath-breath-yes I made it through this and more important she has-she is still the PERFECT patient-just laying there being talked to and loved but not fighting-kid helping with computer work looking up fiasco site and jeffers to get dosages-decide give 2cc bio-mycin and dose of tetanus antitoxin-mixed some aspirins with powerade and pedialyte and Kentucky sorgram and lasses (she ain't drinking it or nibbling the hay she has all around her but has nibbled at alfalfa pellets, cubes and noble goat.
That's about where I am at this point. Letting her rest some in her new little pen we put together on porch right outside door in dog crate bottom full of hay and with the box fan on her (her daddy had to go to work but insisted she have that fan right in front of her cause it is so hot today). Trying to give her some time to figure out how she is going to act and get my head together to figure out what to do next. Truthfully, I believe I have done about as much as a vet could at this point.
Is that antibiotic going to be sufficient? I don't know exactly which ones to use for what and it is all I have here right now.
PLEASE remember Anchovy if you are a praying person she needs all the help she can get. Ironic when this happened my little Kate was at Vacation Bible School and this is her special goat she picked out for her.
Oh yea, I forgot to mention that she was bred a month ago too. Wow huh? Well, I am much more worried about her.
Thanks for being here!
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They kill me how different they act around midnight. That's when daddy comes home from work(he is a 2nd shift welder at a shipyard-builds Navy ships) and they know it's time. I could NOT get her to drink or eat hay, ONLY noble goat, alfalfa pellets and cubes. So as soon as he got off he called to check on her as he did at lunch and I gave a report then went back out with her. She had stood up and stepped out of the crate and taken at least several more steps to get where she was at and was standing there. YAY! I offered her some plain water and she drank. YES! opened the little pen to see if she would step out any. Long story shortened she ended up walking a lot on my porch and even went down the 2 steps on to ground toward her herd. I was shocked and so happy. She was dripping some blood so we are going to need to add some layers of gauze for a pressure bandage under her wrap. First thing I saw this morning was her face with pieces of hay poking out all around her wiggling little mouth as she chewed away. Hubby and I have decided in comparison with Babytoon' injury and also one that our son Henry had late last year (that was just HORRIBLE), we figure that she is looking at a good month of healing before we can even feel that she is actually healed and then still a good bit of therapy type healing. You know still stiff , sore etc. I hope we are wrong but I don't think it will be any quicker. I just hope that if she is pregnant that it won't be too stressful for her. It won"t hurt my feelings a bit if she didn"t settle, considering. Thanks everyone!
I hope she is doing better today.
{{{ Anchovy }}} {{{ Anchovy's humans }}}
Hang in there Margaret. You have done what you know how to do and that's that. Accidents happen. Now...breathe...
Thank you all so much. Your support means the world to us and as ya'll know that has a great deal of effect on the end result. "Support is a Cornerstone to Success"
I wish I had something to add, other than I'll be praying about things!