DOG BITE UPDATE

I've been through a week of pain and lethargy. It's amazing how much energy one can lose through pain. I have stinging/throbbing pain now as I'm writing. My Vicadin is running low, so I tough it out.

It turns out that Jimmy the dog owner, according to his testimony, sent his dog to Utah with a friend the day after it bit me. I told Animal Control I didn't think that was legal--that I thought the dog had to be quarantined. They agreed but said they can't extradite the dog.

Here are a couple of photos four inches above my ankle on my swollen right leg that show what "Patty" did to me.

A Quick Cure for Poison Ivy

I've been suffering with a bad case of poison ivy this week, but last night for a few hours the poison ivy misery vanished. The pain of a dog bit overcame it. I was walking along the road passing a house 2 doors up-river when a pit bull suddenly rushed across the wide lawn and clenched his teeth into my leg right through my jeans. The owner has an electric fence, but this dog is her boy friend's and apparently does not have a collar for the fence. Blood started spurting from my leg, and John rushed me to a med center. They took me in ahead of those in the waiting room and a wonderful doctor fixed me up after an x-ray showed the bite had not gone to the bone. There were five puncture wounds, only one really deep. He put a needle in each one twice to get me numb and then pumped a saline solution into each wound. So I'm on vicadin and on the mend. Such incidents have to be reported. Hopefully this dog will not be around to do other people in. The doctor said mine was an easy case in comparison to some children he's had with chewed-up faces. If this incident, now reported, will prevent a child from such harm, I'm very thankful it happened to me.

THE MIGHTY GRAND RIVER

This was posted by a friend yesterday. YES, he's referring to us.

We're back in flood mode, yes, for those that were wondering. We've been getting emails and calls due to the inclement weather we've been having. Everything is tied down and picked up so that we can leave for the weekend with a light heart and a clear mind. Not all are so fortunate: friends John and Ruth, upriver, returned home yesterday after a few days gone to find their Pontoon boat WITH the dock gone, lifted up and out by the rising waters. Fortunately, neighbors a mile down River saw the dock and the Pontoon passing by, lassoed them still attached by their lanyards, and secured them to a Tree. Hooray