It is going to be a good weekend. There is nothing like having a few days of hopefully doing nothing, other than getting stuff ready for Emmas birthday party. She has been driving me crazy asking me to help her with ideas and I am not a party person and dont have such ideas taking up space in my brain. :) I keep telling her to seek the help of her crafty aunts. She has decided on a theme and different things that she wants so that is a good thing.
We had a couple of interesting surgeries yesterday. The first one was a dog that had been run over by its owner six weeks previously and they had just decided to rush it on in because the swelling on the front of carpal joint was about baseball sized and the dog was still lame. It had a luxation of the radial carpal joint with tons of scar tissue build up from the body trying to stabilize it. Worse yet was they were still using the dog to help work the cattle.
I struggled and struggled trying to get it reduced and finally decided to just drill a pin down through it and thanks be to God, it lined everything up very nicely and it all feels quite stable now.
The second surgery was a little dog that came down from phoenix with an abdominal mass. I thought it was a splenic mass as the dog was very anemic and very old and very small, only 5# with the mass. The owners wanted to try so we used Marys dog Harmony as a blood donor, we had saved Harmonys life about 4 years ago when her owners had left her chained up and she ended up with a broken leg that was sloughing off. She was very pregnant and they were going to put her to sleep but we offered for them to sign her over to the clinic and they did so. We amputated her leg and a few days later she delivered 5 healthy pups. Now she is giving back by donating her blood.
Anyway, the mass turned out to be a huge uterine hematoma which was easy to remove but unfortunately, the little dog died in recovery :( I hate it when that happens but it does happen especially with tiny old dogs!
Went to bed early and got up at 3:50 this morning. The hamstring was feeling a bit better until I had to chase this dog that escaped from the clinic and that made it not very happy. I was concerned that it would affect my squats.
squats and deads
squats
*45# for 20
*95# for 10
*115# for 5
*135# for 4
*155# for 3
*165# for 2
*185# for 1
*205# for 1
*165# for 5 sets of 5
The hamstring didnt bother me much at all. I could feel it more towards the end when I was getting tired so I cut out a few sets of the 165#. It does lead me to believe that I am not engaging my posterior chain enough when I squat so when all is feeling better I will be working on that.
deads
*205# for 3
*225# for 3
*265# for 3
*205# for 2 sets of 6
These were a little harder but tolerable. I need to stop thinking so much and just start pulling.
incline situps
*2 sets of 20
I was suppose do 100 lunges but was out of time, bummer. :)
Today has been pretty slow which is typical for this time of year as so many people are gone on vacation or thinking about vacation or returning from vacation and their money is low.
Zac has his swim finals tonight starting at 4pm. He is all stressed about it and was lamenting the other night about how bad he thought he would do. I told him he should swim for Kate the Great,(like her facebook page) one of the Relentless kids from Relentless Minnesota, and he got all excited. He is going to have David (because David writes way way way neater than I) write on his arm Relentless on one arm and Kate the Great on the other arm. Kate sent him a good luck video this morning and he is doing the happy dance around the clinic every time he watches it!
Speaking of Relentless, the donation sites are now up. All the monies raised go to support families of children with cancer or other life threatening illnesses. Please donate a small amount, or a big amount, and help these families. You can click here http://www.youcaring.com/nonprofits/dr-debbie-chapman-relentless-detroit-2014/200369 to donate.
And the very pretty skittles!
