I told you when I started this blog that I may or may not stink at updating it. Surprise surprise it's the first one. But my dear brother informed me that I need to keep posting. And I think he's right. Writing the blog is a fun way to count my blessings and look back on my life. I definitely need to do a better job. I'll work on it.
This summer has definitely been an eventful one. Our cute puppy, turned out to be a total Clutz. She broke her femur after we had had her for two weeks. Two whole freaking weeks. That's it. You can imagine how great we felt... NOT! So we went to the vet and had them do surgery to fix it. They ended up putting a pin through the bone to hold it in place because she had broke it clean in half. She was really snuggly afterwards, which I LOVED! She was my snuggle buddy when Jackson was at work at night.
About two weeks post surgery, she started dragging her foot when she walked. It started messing up the ankle so we went back to the vet and they put a splint on her. It was too big on her so she looked a little funny. Jackson and I called it her hockey stick. Haha we think we're funny.
The whole ordeal lasted for 6 weeks. And we finally got the pin taken out, and the splint off. Finally, we could enjoy our puppy and take her on walks, right? Wrong. We tried taking her for a walk a couple days after they removed everything. And she just dragged that leg. It was so sad! I felt so bad for her. We ended up carrying her home halfway through the walk.
Remember that part where I said she's a clutz? Let's add accident prone to that too. Not two weeks after everything was removed. She broke her leg AGAIN. You heard me right. Only this time it was the lower two bones in that same leg. So we took her back to the vet. They wanted us to do surgery and pin the leg again. I love Oakley, I really do. But ANOTHER surgery? You've got to be kidding me. So we left her at the vet and talked about what we wanted to do. They called us the next morning and told us that they wee rechecking the xrays and she had dislocated her hip as well, and that the best course of action would be to amputate. By now I am freaking out! They want to amputate our 3 month old puppies leg? Heck no. So we went to pick her up to take her to a specialist for puppies. (yes that's a real thing! Who knew?) We stopped to talk to our favorite tech about our options and what she would do in our situation. She said that she has a puppy that had a similar situation and that they did 4 surgeries, yes FOUR, and the dogs leg was no fused together and he didn't use it at all. He just tucked it up when he ran. She said he was perfectly fine. So Jackson and I talked and prayed about what we should do for our poor baby. And decided that amputation was the best course of action to give her a healthy and happy life. She wasn't using that leg after the splint and pin were removed, it was causing her more problems. So we signed the papers to let then cut my poor puppy's leg off. I felt so bad we had to do it. She's just a baby, only 3 months old for crying out loud, but we wanted the best life possible for her. We wanted her to be able to run and go for walks without dragging her leg and bleeding. And it turned out to be the best decision we could have made for her. She had it amputated on a Thursday, and on Saturday we had my family over for a BBQ because my lovely parents gave us their old grill. So we cooked dinner to thank them. Oakley ran up and down the backyard with her 3 legs for 6 hours. Six freaking hours! I was so impressed. She was more active in that day then she had been since the first two weeks we got her. That definitely made me feel better about our decision. She has been the most hyper and happy puppy since then. She doesn't even notice it's not here except when she tries to scratch her head, and you can see the muscles moving where her leg was. It's hilarious! I know it's mean to laugh, but it's kinda funny. And then we go over and scratch her head for her.
Having three legs doesn't even stop her from digging holes in our backyard! You would think it would tight? I wish. So we can't leave her out there for very long unattended or I might not have a yard anymore! She's a rascal.
Moral of the story. No letting puppies do stairs and Make sure you're dog isn't accident prone before you buy/adopt them. Haha but for all the hassle we've had with her, I wouldn't trade getting er for any of it!
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