Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Injections...

Ella's long bout with an infection that won't seem to go away (as a result of the plates and screws that were in her arms for a year), has had her on antibiotics since last June.

Even though the plates, screws and pins are out now, it seems the infection is not 100% cleared up. According to her Dr., the infection is resistant to just about every single antibiotic in the pill form. That leaves us with only one antibiotic the infection is NOT resistant to which happens to be given by injection only. Yikes!

We could either bring her in to the vet once a day for 10 days and pay $80 per visit, or we can administer the shots ourselves once a day for 10 days and have it cost a fraction of the overall price. Bringing her in to the vet once a week to have her bandages changed is difficult enough, so of course we chose the latter.

And what a pin-and-needles comedy it has been each morning! Let's just say I have a new-found respect for nurses and vet techs, I really do.

Jason has been administering the shots and I have gladly taken a back seat as his assistant. I prepare the syringe then hold her head and speak lovingly to her as Jason injects and shoots her up. Then when it is all-said-and-done I reward her with a piece of bacon.

Three down, seven more to go and hopefully good riddance to this God forsaken infection!

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