Happy New Year everyone! Aeryn certainly has been on a roll lately! Thanks to those who expressed concerns & well wishes over her cut pad. 10 days later and it continues to be a nuisance. The gash was deeper than originally thought (at 2:00 a.m. I wasn't exactly seeing straight!). The pad is cut clean through, full thickness, but right along side the nail bed so that it was impossible to suture. Keeping the girl off of it has proven a challenge! After 6 days of daily bandage changes and each time finding the wound still open and oozing blood, I had to resort to splinting the leg. Now she's peg-legging it around like a pro. Not that it slows her down! Last night I noticed that she was walking far too normally ~ the little madam had managed to break the splint in 2! At re-splinting, the gash is finally showing good healing with a nice healthy bed of granulation tissue.
Christmas Day afternoon I went into my bedroom and found an empty package on my bed (Aeryn always takes her stolen goods & devours them in the comfort of my bed ~ makes for some interesting crumbs in the bed!). Oh great ~ the package had contained 1 lb. of black licorice. YIKES! we like to call that "Christmas Rush". And sure enough, Boxing Day morning there were all kinds of gifts under my Christmas tree, and none of them pretty! I started my day with 2 hours of carpet scrubbing and still haven't gotten all the stains out. Bless her heart! She's been good since then, a whole week without an incident. Makes me a little scared to think of what she'll come up with next! just anoth chapter in the on-going Aeryn Chronicals! sue(Aeryn aka hoppy, with Devyn & Rowyn who have been very good boys!)
