Thread:Suhonenm/@comment-31527938-20170506222430/@comment-31527938-20170507231704

Not good, but better then last night.....I've stayed in the barn with him and haven't left him. Where we live there isn't an emergency vet and the closest one is 45 minutes away and not open on Mondays. Left repeated voicemails. We called out vet we use for our livestock and horses, but he only deals with large farm animals so he doesn't have an office like a normal vet. But he came and checked for warning signs (because there was no blood, there many possible serious issues) and gave us instructions on what to for and gave him something for the pain. I could see in his eyes the pain and he kept seizing up and numerous times through the night I thought I was watching him die😢😢😢. His back legs weren't working well, one is not even usable so it's probably broke, and one front leg. So I prayed and prayed. This morning, gave him more pain meds this morning and he drank and used the bathroom (which was extremely important we were told and there was no blood so even better). Now he is walking around quite a bit to different places to lay down and it looks like his front leg is fine (well he can use it) and it looks to be like the worst thing is that one back leg because he can use the other one, but from watching it might not feel good). But, he doesn't have those eyes that scream pain and when he's sleeping, his body doesn't seize, or rather stiffen out like what happens when animals die. So I'm very relieved about that.  The vet said if he had internal injuries that he wouldn't make it through the night, and gave him enough pain killers to make him comfortable, but it was so excruciatingly painful to watch him not knowing if he was dying, if he was in a lot of pain, was I/we being selfish for letting him continue in pain.  I had brought my tablet out there so I could distract myself because he was in a state of shock so I didn't want to keep petting him, just wanted him to know he wasn't alone. But, he looks so much better now and he survived the night so I think he will make it to the vet. That's one of the few reasons living so remotely has a huge disadvantage but thank god for our livestock vet that came right over last night.

But, honestly, how do you not tell us that you hit our dog and keep going? He is 180 pound dog so he's a big dog so you would know if you hit him, because it's important to know where he was hit, how fast the car was going, etc. So, I can breathe better now, but still feel guilty that there could have been more we could do and are we still doing the right thing. But I'm being optimistic that he's going to pull through!