Clyde's Story

I haven't up-dated the blog for awhile.  We have just been enjoying the time here at home, and working like crazy to get ready to go to Salt Lake. We did receive notice of Curt's next appointment up at Huntsman.  We will be going up north on the morning  (early)  of the 25th.  Curt will have a full battery of tests that day then meet with Dr. Zangari the next day.  Well on to Clyde's story.  On Sunday we had some friends over for a BBQ.  They have two small boys and we had a great dinner and visit. At around 9:00 P.M. Clyde usually comes around to the front of my chair and I ask him if he wants to go out.  He gets very excited and does a little bow.  I let him out the front door with Joplin  (Tishanna's dog).  They started for the street then started to growl and started to run over by the boat and car. I called them back then heard Clyde bark and whimper and saw him just sitting on the lawn.  He tried to get up but couldn't move.  He had broken his back right leg just above the ankle.  We got him into the house and checked him out.  He let me touch his leg but he was very scared.  I could tell that it was broken.  We calmed him down and he actually slept a little that night.   We were just going to have him stay downstairs to sleep but he wanted to go upstairs so we let him.  On Monday we took him to the Vet.  They sedated him and splinted his leg.  We were glad to find out that the Dr. could splint his leg and not send him to La Vegas! I picked him up at 6 and took him home.  At first he had problems maneuvering  around with the splint and he would whimper a lot.  The Vet had given me some meds for him so I gave him his pain pill and he spent Monday night down stairs. Tuesday, we went  down stairs and Clyde was doing fine and has been improving all day.  He sort of goes in a circle to lay down so he can drag the splinted leg around and lay down.  He went outside  lots too and is doing much better today.