Cariadus » photo http://cariadus.com/blog by Roger Harrison Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:50:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Miracle http://cariadus.com/blog/2009/03/miracle/ http://cariadus.com/blog/2009/03/miracle/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:21:36 +0000 Roger http://rogerharrison.co.uk/?p=39 In full flow
It’s almost exactly six years since our greyhound, Tim, was run over on the road outside our house. He lost so much blood he almost didn’t survive. His right foreleg was so horrifically broken I was sure that he would lose his leg. I was amazed when the vet said he could fix it. The caveat was that it would be a long process, it would be expensive and there was no guarantee that he would have full use of the leg afterwards. Even if the bone healed nerve damage could render the leg useless. Amputation would be quicker and cheaper. It didn’t take us long to decide that if there was any chance of the leg being saved it would be worth it.

Tim had to endure six months of painful treatment and many times I wondered whether we’d made the right decision to try to save it. The vet, Stefano Susanna of West Farm Veterinary Clinic in Cowbridge performed a minor miracle in saving the leg, including an operation to pin the bone and fit a metal frame to the leg.

Throughout this time we had much-needed moral and financial support from Greyhound Welfare.

And now to see Tim run through the water on the beach with a look of pure enjoyment on his face, or striding across the sand, you would never guess that he came so close to losing his leg. A miracle indeed.

Tim

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