Dang ! .
You need a Mercedes Diesel WAGON Trish .
Sadly , I know all about the leg pain thing .
-Nate
Trish wrote :
>
> Here's the story....
>
> We have ten dogs. We have them in two groups. The old timers that
> includes Lucky who has been with us since 2000 and is now 13, Sadie, Gabby,
> Bart and Zeke. They have been with us for 7yrs to 4yrs.
>
> Then we have the new comers/puppies...Levi who is a year old now, his mom
> Glory, Bleu & Stephan. The boys are all about the same age and get along.
>
> We had the "big" group out, the old timers, feeding, playing, walking.
> Kevin thought (thinking isn't knowing) he had them put away before he let
> out the next group.
>
> Zeke, border collie has been with us since '08 had gone down to the creek
> or where ever. He came bounding up to be greeted by the others. He was a
> bit freaked out, the youngsters were all "hey let's play". They know each
> other through the fence, but not face to face for safety reasons.
>
> Glory was supposed to be on her tie out. She saw Zeke and Levi so she
> rushed over to protect her son. Kevin and I both ran for her, we were on
> opposite sides. We both dove for her leash, both missed. She dove for
> Zeke, I had an immediate flash back to being bitten 33yrs ago so I threw my
> hands up and sort of fell backwards, not knowing as I did so it thrust my
> thigh forward, right into her mouth! It was done in a blink, but also slow
> motion! She knew what she did immediately and let go, but not before her
> top right canine was buried in my leg, her bottom left canine didn't go in
> as far, her tiny teeth in between didn't phase me, but did leave an
> imprint.
>
> I rushed to the house to wash my leg with blue dawn then peroxide, not
> having a clue how deep it was. Kevin came in and I decided I could no
> longer stand on one leg, so we headed to the shower. Our peroxide has a
> squeeze top so he was really forcing it into the top hole where it filled a
> cavity to my knee and came out the bottom hole and forced raw chicken out
> that she had been eating seconds earlier. Once all the meat was out we
> stared at each other both asking "now what?" I didn't want to go but we
> headed to the local Ennis ER. After 30 minutes we heard someone else say
> they'd been there for 6 hours. Meanwhile they called in a woman with a
> toddler that had nothing wrong with him. He had been munching on soda and
> potato chips, running all over the place, crawling under and over the
> chairs. I said "I'm starved, we're leaving". We stopped at the grocery
> store for fresh raw garlic, one of the best natural antibiotics you can get
> and more peroxide.
>
> I started a new job the next day so I toughed it out all week. I stayed on
> the raw garlic, peroxide (HUGE MISTAKE!!!) Olive Leaf, Oregano oil,
> Grapefruit Seed Extract...all antibiotic, antimicrobial, antibacterial. I
> also took Collidal silver and used it on the wound and used tea tree oil.
>
> Last Sunday I was awakened at 4am with an indescribable pain. It felt like
> there was a hot knife in there and it was a constant pain, not throbbing.
>
> That night, after I had dropped Kevin off at work I sat here at the PC
> wondering "what IS that smell" then it hit me!! Gangrene! Then it all
> flooded back, the pain, the smell, from my Brown Recluse Spider bite in
> '03.
>
> I googled it, and after txting my sister and calling Kevin decided we were
> all too tired to deal with it that night, but I had made up my mind I was
> going to Methodist hospital first thing Monday morning. I stopped by work
> to tell them I was headed to the doctor right then. She was a bit po'd but
> tough. Kevin's brother told us not to go to "big" Methodist, it's in the
> "hood" and always busy but go down to Mansfield. I was happy we did.
> Within 30 mins I was in a room and hooked to IV antibiotics. I went
> through 2 bags of it over 6 hours. They threatened to keep me over night!
> They let me go with the promise that I would get the antibiotic
> prescription filled, if not I HAD to come back! My sister stepped up and
> paid for it and was reimbursed by St Vincent De Paul, who her husband works
> with. I had to go back on Wed, at which point they sucked out the
> infection which was from mid thigh to my knee. They packed it with
> antibiotic gauze and had me come back on Thurs when they repacked it,
> thankfully it didn't hold nearly as much! I just got back from my fourth
> visit and have to go back on Tues! I'm also on 1200 mg of one of the most
> potent antibiotics they could find. They were a bit freaked out by the
> depth of the bite and level of infection and wondered how it got so bad so
> fast. It was the peroxide!
>
> The only thing I did wrong was the peroxide. It kills off the new skin
> cells!
>
> Now the joke was on ME! Someone ratted me out animal control. They had
> been crawling all over the farm for two weeks. Cost me my entire tiny two
> week unemployment check to get a vet to do a farm visit to get everyone up
> to date on rabies vaccination. That was on Tues, I was bitten on Sunday!
> KARMA huh? She would have been quarantined, me given rabies shots!
>
> I haven't slept but 3-4 hrs each night and it was fraught with unrest due
> to pain and pain meds, which I am no longer taking. The doc on Thurs
> explained why they weren't working anyhow, raw nerves inside. Store brand
> advil works better as it takes down the swelling and doesn't make me feel
> weird or give me weird dreams. Now that they packed it with antibiotic
> gauze it's amazing. ONE day and it was so much better. The doc I saw on
> Thur was freaked out by how much the doc got in there on Wed, but she
> wasn't able to get as much in, meaning it IS healing! She says the gauze
> is to help it heal faster and it takes up the space so the infection has no
> where to grow. The doc today didn't put in as much, wanting it to heal
> from the inside.
>
> thanks for the prayers.
>
> Time for a snack and a nap. HOT here! Been having to drive Kevin's F250.
> My car is still down. :( I'm actually supposed to be on here digging up an
> email from the list about switching the fuel filters and bleeding the
> injectors and if there is supposed to be any air! :)
>
>
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