The aftermath of the accident
A week after the accident, we thought Milo was doing well. He was hopping around pretty quickly on three legs and not screaming as much as before when we were changing his dressings. But when we took him to the vet for a check-up, Milo’s report card wasn’t as pretty as we thought it’d be. He had a displaced and fractured shoulder, which explains why he hadn’t been using his left front paw. This, of course, complicated matters and lead to a series of changes in my household.
The next day we went to Veterinary Surgical Associates which specializes in orthopedic surgeries. Talking with the surgeon and getting the estimate cost of the surgery was mind-blowing because the surgery was so expensive. After much consideration we decided to go along with the surgery, in spite of the four-digit cost.
Family: My sister and I have to wake up earlier in the morning now to carry Milo out into the backyard to go potty, feed him his medicine, put a warm pack on him for 10 minutes with physical therapy, following him and feed (or coax) him to eat breakfast. This morning routine is the reason why I have been late to school recently. On the days my sister and I are not home, my mom has to do these things for Milo, and it does not help that she is also injured/recovering. She, too, has a regime of physical therapy of her own.
The way we do things in the house has to change now. We’ve learned to work our way around his needs, but it’s definitely given us a new perspective on life: as a family, we really do need to look after one another.
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