Retirement with No Problem

Moored Denford, River Nene

It rained for most of the morning, then by lunch time the sun came out again, the weather sure did look fair, so I decided to take a stroll..

I couldn’t open the gate.. a five barred steal gate.  I climbed it and tapped the wooden fence beside the gate, but she didn’t listen to me and followed her friend Molly.. the leggy jack russell through the gate, jumping high to go through the top bar but one.. EEK!

Head, body and rump went through OK, but Lucy left her back legs out behind as she dived through.. one of them got caught and took all the weight of her body as she hung for a split second before landing in a heap and squeal.

It was obvious it wasn’t going to ‘walk off’ and we were some mile and half away from Denford.  Ann and I were looking at the map wondering what to do for the best… “You OK over there?”  shouted a voice.. The farmer wondered why we were hanging about on the footpath beside her farm… we explained … “Jump in the car.. I’ll take you to the vet”

Within 10 minutes Lucy was in the capable hands of Renee at The Best Friends Vet Group in Thrapston.  As soon as I went in Renee the vet came straight to her and began examining the injury. “I don’t think its broken… she hasn’t dislocated the hip..”

Lucy is back home.. we caught the bus back from Thrapston to Denford and she painfully hobbled back to No Problem.  The vet gave her some anti inflammatory drugs and pain killers and we are due back there tomorrow morning.  If she still isn’t standing on her leg then it will be x-rayed etc.  Renee is expecting her to be putting weight on it tomorrow.. I just had her out for a wee, and she is not putting any weight on it yet.. oh dear..

I definitely have not had a good day today.. Mr Tesco phoned “Are you a real person?”… prodding myself, I re-assured him I most certainly was!

I needed a few bits and bobs to tide me over while we are waiting for the river to go down a bit so asked for our delivery to be picked up outside the pub.. “Very odd delivery place, I wondered if it was a hoax” says he “I live on a narrowboat, and unless you can come up the river with your van, oh and by the way don’t even try, its in flood, then the nearest you will get to me is that pub”.. He was happy enough when he arrived..

More news on Lucy when I get back from the vet tomorrow..