Hi everyone. It's me talking but John typing.
Got home from the hospital around 2 PM. Had a terrible day on Thursday. Ran a fever, low blood pressure, and an unbelievable migraine due to oodles of morphine.
My fingers are discolored and really swollen, and I have to keep moving them all the time. I'll need another operation, to remove the pins that are holding the bones in place -- and they don't know what may additionally be needed.
Animal Control is coming over tomorrow at 11 AM to take pictures of the back fence. I just went outside and noticed the neighbor is repairing the spot where the dogs crawled under.
Don't know what happened to the two dogs that attacked me, but the third is still next door.
At the outset, when I first saw the two dogs had gotten through the fence and were barrelling towards us, I headed for the puppy and had to grab it from one of the attackers' jaws. Then,
I put the puppy under my coat and fell over it to the ground. At that point, I must have allowed my left arm to be exposed because one of the dogs grabbed my wrist. I knew I needed not to pull hard on it or I'd lose the hand at that point.
I have to say something kind about my brother Rich, here. He had just arrived home from the bank and something made him look out the kitchen window into the back yard. He saw me on the ground with the several dogs, and heard me screeching at the top of my lungs, and roared out to save his little sister from the monsters. He got the dog, that was holding my wrist, in a head-lock and began punching it in the face. When it let go, he took the puppy I was holding and literally tossed it over the side fence to the gardener that had been working at the side neighbor's yard. The gardener put the puppy into his truck cab and called 911. Richard, I'm sure, saved my life that day. I was thinking only of the puppy, and never entertained the thought I might be attacked myself.
I'll be reading PetTalk, but may not be responding as frequently as usual, having to do this by (edited) dictation.
Thank you, everybody, for your prayers, messages and phone calls. It means a lot to me and you know I love you guys very much.
BTW Miss Klo is AOK, thank goodness, and hasn't left my side since I walked back inside the house. The puppy got a single tooth-wound on the butt, that John treated with peroxide and aloe vera, and was picked up yesterday by his owner's brother and taken to the vet for a check.
love, Karen
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and Hugs your way i really hope you just get better in no time............
Get better soon!
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