"Degloved" Dog Tail... Helpful H....

So let me tell you what can happen if your toddler decides to open the house door and let the doggies in... you know... being helpful and all.... he is such a big boy after all....

 

H decided to open the door and let our dogs in the house... well... that's great and all... I really appreciate his help... BUT.... not when he decides to shut the door reallyyyyy fast when our 89 pound, 9 month old MASTIFF is running in the door....

 

This is the scene moments later at our house... except I won't show too many pictures of all the blood but let me tell you that it looked like we had murdered something in our house! There was blood almost up to the ceiling in some places...

 

Yes... this is the tip of our mastiff's tail...

 

H shut the door on her tail... she was running the house... the door jerked into the door frame... almost 2 inches of her tail is "degloved".... 

 

For those of you who don't know what "degloved" is, I don't recommend googling it unless you have the stomach for it... I'll save you the time of looking up what it means by telling you the definition according to Wikipedia...

"A degloving injury is a type of avulsion in which an extensive section of skin is completely torn off the underlying tissue, severing its blood supply. It is named by analogy to the process of removing a glove."

 

There was nothing but bone making up the tip of Bay's tail.... no skin, no muscle... nothing but bone & blood...

 

Blood on the walls... the carpet... the couch... the kitchen cabinets...the fridge...  (our carport door which is what was slammed on her tail opens into our kitchen)....

 

So of course daddy was at work with no cell reception while all of this was going on...of course blood continued to go everywhere while I gathered supplies needed to clean and bandage her tail... plus trying to keep a 3 year old little boy out of my way... all of this together = Mental Breakdown....

 

Of course I let her back out that door later after bandaging her tail so I could have a moment to continue to clean the blood off of every surface in our house, only to realize that she took her bandage off her tail while she was outside.... When I called her to come back in what's the first thing she comes in contact with....my car....Of course the bleeding hadn't stopped completely yet

 

Soooo since this was Saturday at noon, we didn't have a vet to call... to stop the bleeding I had to use flour (really good home tip for stopping bleeding right) - BUT of course I didn't HAVE any flour... Making a phone call to Mamaw was the only option at this point... "MOM HELP!!! H SHUT BAY'S TAIL IN THE DOOR AND THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE!!!!!"

 

So after what seemed like 10 hours of bandaging, mopping, Clorox wiping, and scrubbing everything around the house.... we have a bandaged tail...

 

First thing Monday, Bay had a trip to the Vet... They chopped off a few inches of her tail and stitched up the end with 2 big stitches....

Can you imagine the "fun" we've had trying to keep her from tearing out her stitches.... 

 

Bay goes back to the vet on 11/5 for removal of her stitches... let's hope my mind still sort of functions by that time....

So once again... my life with a toddler gets alittle.... interesting....