Bryce had stayed home with a headache and Robb had decided to work from home, but I didn't know that either of these things had occurred because I had left for work at 5:30. I was sitting in my car eating lunch when I got a call from our neighbor Heather. I thought it was really odd that she was calling so I answered it. She was pretty shaken and told me that she thought our little dog had just got hit by a car. At this time, I didn't know that people were at the house, I thought everyone was at work or school, so I was scared that the dogs had gotten out of the house on their own. I ran back into work and told them that I had an emergency and I had to leave. I headed home as fast as I could. Bryce then called me in tears saying that Scout had gotten hit and they couldn't find her. I was heartbroken. I thought for sure she was dead. By the time I got close to home Robb had called and told me to meet them at the Hickman vet clinic. When I got there Bryce was there sobbing, covered in blood and not wearing any shoes. The vet brought me back and told us that they couldn't save her back leg that it would need to be amputated. Scout looked dazed and sad! She was still conscious and was excited to see me. Poor little pup! Her left back leg had been completely de-gloved and you could see all the bone and tendons. The next piece of bad news that we got was that the Hickman vet was not able to do the surgery because she was too unstable. They started to ask us if we were willing to take her to K State or Omaha. We told them yes and they started making calls. As it turns out, dog ICU beds are in high demand just like people ICU beds. Nowhere in Lincoln could take her and K State was full. I was starting to get nervous because I could tell that they were getting nervous. They finally found a place in Omaha that was willing to take her. The vet gave her sedation and pain meds and we headed to Omaha.
On the way to Omaha, I was worried she wasn't going to make it. We didn't really know the extent of her injuries and she was breathing fast and her gums were really pale, all signs of doggie shock.
I was very relieved when we pulled up to the animal hospital in Omaha. They were great! Not like an ordinary vet clinic it was much more like a hospital. They brought a cart out to get her and took her right into the ER portion of the hospital. They evaluated her and brought us into a consult room to give us a cost estimate. Bryce and I were crying, and Robb was trying to hold it together and be realistic. When they discussed the cost estimate with us, none of us were ready for how expensive this was going to be! Robb looked at me and said I got to decided what to do. I knew that just realistically Robb would of just had her put down and that wouldn't have been unreasonable with the cost estimate that they gave us. Robb also knew that Bryce and I couldn't do that so we decided to go ahead with getting full body x-rays to see the extent of her injuries and sedating her to do that as well as cleaning up the wound and medicating her and stabilizing her. We decided to see what the other x-rays showed before we decided anymore. If she had broken her pelvis then we would need to go forward with putting her down.
We had to go home sad and so nervous to hear what they found. They didn't feel like she was stable enough to sedate until late that night and they called to tell us that the leg was the only bone broken and they didn't see any extensive internal damage. At this point we made the decision to go forward to amputate the back leg to save her life.
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