"G" came in early this morning on Emergency because she was hit by a car last night. As far as we can tell, she doesn't have any broken bones, but she has really significant soft tissue injuries.
She has a puncture wound over her right eye that made a pocket under her skin that goes back to the level of her ears on the top and all the way over to the left eye. We're managing that wound conservatively with bandages for a while before we really close it up in a few days.
She also had a pretty big abrasion on the front of her right front leg. We're doing the same bandage song and dance on that one.
The big story is her left hind leg which has what we call a "degloving injury." Think about when you're wearing a glove and you peel it off at the end. It's like that, except skin instead of a glove. The skin from her ankle to her toes is missing. There are exposed pieces of muscle and bone. We could manage this with bandages for 3-4 weeks and probably save the leg, but that would cost the owner $6,000-$8,000. Instead, tomorrow we're going to amputate her left hind limb.
I'm really looking forward to the surgery! And I think that she'll feel a lot better once the dead/dying foot is gone.
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