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.)

A little scare June 19, 2008

Well tonight it seems I may have gotten myself into a little trouble. MomLaura caught me licking a few too many times. She knows I hate that stupid collar, so she tries to let me have free time without it. Well tonight it seems that I have licked a scab off of my incision exposing a 2 cm hole where I must have previously pulled stitches out. Off to the vet. The only problem was the time. It's almost closing time for all of the local vets. Good thing the Emergency vet clinic is still open. (Not so good is how much they charge!) Well I must have really won them over. They gave me a small discount on the bill: $200-my good looks discount= $27.00. Wow, but MomLaura said that doesn't mean we can do this again!! I think she was scared. I got 5 staples, and they said give it another week to heal.

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