Another New Year of Medical Maladies Begins!

Poor Boom, he has a wonderful 8th birthday with many presents (thanks, DFF!) and musical e-cards and then New Year's Eve comes. Boom's least favorite day of the year is Independence Day, but New Year's Eve comes a close second. Fireworks, suburbanites, disrupted sleep -- a veritable party pack of things we don't like.



So you would think that the poor boy had suffered enough. Nope. While out walking yesterday afternoon, Boom was unsuccessful in avoiding the many, many, MANY broken beer bottles on the sidewalks and cut his paw. Tough guy didn't let on and continued his determined pace for another 20 minutes, even pretending his knee wasn't sore either.



So when I returned to the kitchen after he drank his post-walk gallon of water, I was shocked to see the bloody prints all over the kitchen floor. It was kind of like there had been an armed skirmish between very little people and all that was left was the smears of blood where the bodies had fallen. (And just think, I don't even play video games. My imagination came up with that all by itself.)



So I followed Boom back to the living room with a wet paper towel and discovered that there was a small chunk missing out of one pad on his rear paw. To make matters worse, this is the paw attached to the leg which does not have cruciate ligament issues, so it bears more weight than the other. Although the pad had stopped bleeding, the wound reopened each time he walked on it that day.



Medical MacGyver to the rescue! It is quite something what I can do with a sock, a hair elastic, and a baggie. Really. See for yourself:





He got the sock off last night, but has worn it all day today without complaint and the paw seems to have not bled since this morning. Such a good boy.



This makes a complete trifecta of Boom issues: strained knee/ligament, cut pad, and the ever popular 'section of skin rubbed raw by constant obsessive licking.' Oy. It has been nice, though, to spend just about every minute of the past 4 days with him. Work on Monday is going to be harsh.



Tell all your single friends, show this post to the CSI team if they ever search my house for evidence.





XO, JamieSmitten