Rockwell Family: A Week from HELL

The title says it all! This week has been a week from hell! On Wednesday night we went up to my parents house for dinner. Ted gets home first, calls me up and tells me that Misty hurt her leg. I get home, assuming that its no big deal. But I take one look at her back leg and I know something is not right. We then called all the vets in Tooele to see if anyone would come in to see her (Its around 8 PM). No one answered, so I called a 24 hour animal hospital in Salt Lake. Ted had to stay home with Dylan to get him ready for bed. I drive Misty in to the hospital. We get there and have to wait about 30 minutes for the doctor to come in to see us. He takes one look at her and says that its broken, he's just not sure how many bones she broke. He then proceeded to tell me that it would be $75 for the visit then $230 for one x-ray and more if they needed more than one image. I start freaking out, but tell them to go ahead. He shows me the x-rays and I immediately could see broken bones, and not just one, MANY! He then tells me that she will have to have surgery. I just start bawling! He told me how much the surgery would cost- then start bawling even more! I call Ted and I am a total wreck! Poor Ted, not only did he have me bawling, but Dylan crying too. The doctor said she would either have to have the surgery, or probably be put down because without surgery she would be a three-legged dog with no quality of life. Having the amazing and loving husband that I do, he said to go ahead with the surgery. She stayed overnight and then had surgery the next morning. After the surgery was complete the doctor said that she broke it more than he originally expected He said it was like a jigsaw puzzle, that bone fragments were everywhere. But he said that he is confident in his work, and that its as close to perfect as he could get it. I was able to go in and visit her for a few hours. She was able to come Friday. We were doing great.... until today.... I had to go into work and I was gone about a hour. I come home to find that she chewed off her cast. Stupid dog! So then I had to drive her back to the vet and get it re-casted. Ohh what's money right? Lets just pull it off our money tree growing in the back yard. Some people might say- shes just a dog. But she isn't, so is OUR dog. She is a part of my family in every way. It was so lonely to not have her here those few days. So now she has a cone to keep her from chewing it. At least I get some comic relief from her with the cone. She runs into everything and gets stuck quite often. I find it hilarious! Hopefully all goes well and no more emergency visits to the vet. Here are pictures of her x-rays, crazy stuff!