My Story- as told by my foster mom

Bosco is an owner surrender after an “accident” left him in desperate need of surgery. No one is quite sure what happened, but his owners took him to the vet with a broken leg. They did not have the money to have the leg set, so the Veterinarian agreed to wrap the leg and explained how to care for him. Three weeks after the initial vet visit, he was taken back to the vet because the leg now “smelled funny”. The owners did not do as the Veterinarian had instructed them to do; the wrap was left on for the entire three weeks! When the Veterinarian removed the bandage he discovered it was severely infected. Gangrene had spread through the entire leg. The only option to save his life was amputation. That’s where ABR came in! After the mention of a call to the police about animal abuse, the owners surrendered him into ABR’s care. We approved the life saving surgery and a specialty surgeon was called in to remove the leg. But since the leg was so badly infected the specialty surgeon would not do the operation because he did not believe Bosco would make it. (HA! Was he wrong...) Since Bosco was already under anesthesia another Veterinarian agreed to do the amputation. Because he was not a specialty surgeon, he was only able to remove the leg, not the leg and shoulder. This means that Bosco will need to undergo another surgery to remove the rest of the leg and the shoulder. (He currently still tries to "use" the leg which results in the occasional tumble.)

Bosco Pre Surgery June 6, 2008

Hi All! This is me right before I went into surgery. I was all wrapped up by the nice ladies at the vet clinic. They were so great! Everyone was worried I wasn't going to make it, but obviously I did just fine! This is what my first foster mom, Pam, said when she met me: "Here is our boy. He was pretty engaging this morning when I visited him – a sweet, quiet dog who didn't show he had been running a fever yesterday. He will go into surgery this afternoon. He is very skinny. Although he weighed in at 30 pounds... In any case, the vet was very impressed with his compliance and calmness during the examination of his obviously painful leg. He is optimistic about our boy's recovery and his office will call this afternoon after surgery."


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