E 'everything went ok! You should not to do surgery to remove the callus because there is: the problem was not bone, as previously believed, but muscle due to a mild form of MMM disease (a degenerative disease of facial muscles of the skull). In practice could have had, as a puppy, this disease that resulted in this mild form, a strong inflammation in a branch of the mandible, this has caused a great discomfort that led her to chew what was hard. By chance there were two iron spikes protruding from the snow and we got stuck with his head stuck to the ground, and the two reversed needles stuck one behind the palate and the other under the tongue ... ... when I found her the night she was driving with a whimper, ch is not see her now with his brothers. The snow beneath her had melted under the heat of her body and could not move. I stopped my heart and in the dark with only torch I could not understand how it was locked in that position. Even touching it, believe me, I could not understand how he could have stuck that way: the land is gently sloping at that point and those shoes were protruding into the valley but then she must be to climb up and force his head down he started shoving it in her mouth and she slipped, when it are stuck, tipping ... It 'difficult to understand and it was for me then ...
... however, once you understand the position of the bars, the only movement possible (I thought then, in a panic) was to reverse the path that had the knife and had to be done now ... (Only shortly after it released in the cabin I remembered that I had the cutters to bite ...). I had groped three times, returning it to position, but, in the snow and mud, I always slipped. You even have a complaint, the maximum holding his breath if the force a bit '... I had to take all the "courage" that I had to put his fingers in his mouth and guide the knife under the palate with an exit from the meat and then rub in the upper molars and then the other to pull it out from under the tongue ... The result was a rush of blood that I immediately buffered with the snow to stop the bleeding ... I had no idea the extent of damage and if the little would survive.
course was that I could not leave the ì that night. Then wrapped in a cloth of gold as a rescue and crossed the snowy fields on foot with her in his arms, wrapped like candy (hence the name). Already in the zone, just released, tried to drink it is to eat, but the face and jaw was gonfissima blatantly skewed to one side. I thought it was due both to the trauma that the movement that I had to put in place to free her. I felt like a rag knows that I think I did irreparable harm. Today I discovered that what I thought was not correct: that swelling was due in part to mechanical trauma, but the disease primarily MMM, that in these cases it resolves spontaneously within 24 hours.
fact already à home seemed to be better, even if a bit 'dazed, and the next day, the ASL, the veterinarian who has seen it pointed out to me that the mandible had returned to the place by herself (she had enough drink a bowl of water to soak into the nose much to the difficulty of lapping normally, which made her bleed faster the swelling) and we should still wait to see how it evolved the situation. With time and eat candy seemed to have recovered quite normally, even if his mouth had some signs that are not perfectly normal. Those signs which are then blown out with the first plates, after blocking the jaw now, I think, almost a month and a half ago seemed callous marrow (and could be seen the trauma), but were actually muscle injury that had created adhesions between bone and muscle, preventing the proper articulation.
This is blown out today by MRI which, fortunately, and thanks to the attention of veterinarians have done, was done without tracheostomy, with anesthesia in the mood more ù light and oxygen the dog, so that at the slightest hint of adverse neurological reactions, could be deployed immediately in security. E 'Everything went well and the diagnosis is that it has a steroid therapy for two weeks and a constant fisoterapia to make them stretch back muscles Blocked be the progressive force, but gently, his mouth open, at least three times a day for 5-10 minutes at a time.
If there are positives to this EFFETI therapy (even a single millimeter in the opening would be more significant), you will need to continue therapy with a similar (and very expensive) for another six months ...
It is certain that we were lucky: the severe form of this disease does not prevent a life pseudonormal the dog, but can lead to serious complications over time, such that, in some cases, it must even have recourse to euthanasia ... Now Candy
still needs our attention, as well as for our love, and lots and lots to do gymnastics with her mouth (we'll have a good supply of good things to chew to practice). Medical expenses have been discounted further by the team of veterinarians that are following, but are not over ...
all for now and will add something, if anything, Beatrice soon as you connect, just in case I forgot something.
Meanwhile, I thank you all for being there and sati close for the good that you also want to candy. Thank you all!
I ♥ candy! ...
Uncle Bernie
