Category: Background

Tomorrow will be the fourth week since I went out to feed in the morning and found that Lily had suffered a very nasty puncture / laceration on the front of her right leg.  The sutures came out last Friday, but her vet wants her to be restricted while the last of the wound closes.  The bottom of the sutured flap did not take hold, so I am still bandaging the area until it finishes healing.  After I apply the relatively small pressure bandage, I put a large bulky wrap to protect the area from being knocked when she gets up and down.

The vet did give her okay Friday to extend her stall with corral panels, so she has about double the amount of space to move around now. Fortunately, Lily is a doll to handle while she is in her stall.  When we tried to take her out of the stall Friday so the vet could remove the sutures, the silly fool was trying to do airs above the ground, so we moved her back into the stall before proceeding.  It is going to be a challenge to reintroduce her to the great outdoors without her trying to kill herself all over again.