Scribbles is not coming home on Sunday, we have to wait until Wednesday!



Phil and Scribbles Jan 2010

Amy and I drove out to Rochester to visit Scribbles tonight.  We made it there by about 4:45, a long drive in the rain and though I'de intended to get out of work pretty early, I ended up there later.  Which is fine, I love my job- why cant I split myself in two on these kinds of days???

The drive was long.  Today was a day just like Oct 1st, two weeks ago.  Kelly came to the barn four times today- me, twice and Amy twice.  We are now afraid of the wind and rain!  Eight visits to check on the horses in my back yard.  Oct 1st just keeps coming back to us. 

It was a windy  and rainy drive, Amy was carsick from not eating today, driving four hours from school, and then a trip out to Rochester.  She was good company though, I've missed her.  Amy baked horse cookies for Scribbles, and the other horses at our barn so Scribbles got a nice home-made treat today. 

Amy thought Scribbles looked better than she imagined she would.  Another family was watching Dr Myhre do surgery to remove bladder stones(- ouch), from their horse.  As we were chatting we told the family Scribbles was our horse.  They thought she looked terrible- put in the nicest way.  I guess it's all perspecive, as we thought she looked tired, but really good!  She has lost muscle tone from the trauma and having to stay quiet in her stall.  She has lots of scabby fur and skin peeling off of her where she had trauma, and on her belly where she had lots of edema.  She's got stitches up the front of her face, with silvadine spray all over it, complimented with the colors of betadine scrub.  A lovely yellow and silver, complimented by the red blood seeping out of her nostril.  All a part of the healing process.

Dr Myhre left a bone fragment the size of my thumb in a sterile jar in the bucket of her stall.  He had removed this, and many bone fragments yesterday in her surgery. I had hesitated about having the surgery done, but after seeing what was floating in her face I am so glad that we had the surgery done.  Dr Myhre was able to make a significant difference in the opening of her sinus cavity on the right side, her eyes are okay and she WILL have a permanent physical reminder of her accident- via a small concavity on the right side of her face.  Dr Vin says this will give her character, stories to tell.  Her appearance is remarkably better.

So the outcome?  Our little patient is doing well, but not ready to come home yet.  Fingers crossed for Wed's !