When it rains it pours. Last night at the hotel the dogs got away from me (they spend the days in the backyard at the house and nights with us in the hotel. At any rate, I couldn’t get them to come back and Adam and I drove around and around trying to find them for quite some time. Amazingly Holly found her way back to us at the hotel. We never did find Kalia. We looked and looked and went to bed sickened that we couldn’t find her. We decided to leave the gate to our backyard open in case she found her way home.
At 6:30 this am Adam drove to the house to see if she found her way home and she had. She had also gotten through the doggy door and up the four steps into the mudroom. Adam walked in and her tail started wagging. But, her leg was hanging.
Kalia got hit by a car sometime during the night. She was dehydrated and in shock. She has road rash all over and a pulmonary contusion on the right side (bruised right lung). Both of her leg bones in her front left leg were broken very badly and poked through her skin. Adam didn’t realize this at first he just knew her leg wasn’t right and he scooped her up and put her in the car and came to me at the hotel. We didn’t even take her out of the car…he just took off for Lincoln to the Veterinary Medical Center we use.
Our vet could not treat this severe of a fracture and initially talked about sending us to K State’s Vet hospital (ugh!!!) but there happened to be a K State Orthopedic Surgeon that is board certified in Omaha today! So she called him to find out if he’d see Kalia and she came in to tell us the estimate of what it would most likely cost. This is kind of when I finally decided to lose it. The poor vet, I just cried…dripping all over Kalia’s head. It just seems like one thing after another right now. And, financially my gosh!!!! Well, what do you do…we went to Omaha and he is awesome. (note: right about now my sister is probably thinking to herself, you two need to have a kid) He really wanted to do surgery on her today but because of the dehydration and her lung could not. He is quite concerned about the risk of infection with the bone having gone through the skin. She will have a plate and 6 screws placed hopefully tomorrow if she is stable enough.
Resting (or shall we say drugged) in the backseat on the way to Omaha
We are in awe that she found her way home. What amazing instinct these animals have. And, her tail…Adam says she was just a wagging it away when she saw him come to her.