Lilly’s Angel

It’s been an eventful 24hours.  I had my therapy appt. yesterday. I guess it went well.  I always come out there fairly troubled because she’s having me face things that I guess I don’t want to face.  No excuses with her, it is what it is.  I see some very serious changes coming around for 2011. Some will be happy with the changes others might not be so happy.  What is important in this stage of the game is to make ME happy and stop worrying about making everyone else happy and fixing everything. 

As soon as I get home from my appt. I find out that our dog Lilly is missing. I thought she had just gotten loose and hadn’t been gone that long so I wasn’t to worried about it.  I called for her and she didn’t come which was weird but I thought she was off having fun and she would come home when she was done.  I was incredibly tired from having almost no sleep the night before so I took a nap.

To make a long story short our neighbor had hit Lilly with their truck. She ran straight home after she was hit.  The neighbor tried to see if she was ok but Lilly wouldn’t let her anywhere near her.   The last she was seen was at 1:15 that afternoon and it was now 5:45.  I thought she had just been out for maybe an hour. I had no idea. So the search began. I looked all over the property and drove up and down the road then extend my search even further.  My daughter got home and we searched the road on foot and covered all the ground again that I had been through before. Lilly was missing without a trace. She just vanished.  I prayed silently to my Grandpa. He had passed a few years ago and was a huge lover of dogs. I asked him that he keep Lilly safe and to guide us to find her. At this point I just wanted her back, dead or alive. Preferably alive but I had to know. 

I used facebook and plastered her pic every where. Friends put out the word on their facebook. Justin’s gf not only came out in the bitter cold and aided in the search but had her Dad put an ad on the local cable channel.   I called the Sheriff’s dept to report her.  This is a rural community with no animal control so that’s how it’s handled here. They put her in their missing dog log book.  In the morning I called all the local vets offices to see if anyone had brought her in.

Then about noon Lilly just reappeared out of no where. She was toasty warm so she had been somewhere safe. But there had been no traffic on the road. We have no idea how she got home or where she was. We were so happy she was home.  She was injured and I called the vet to make an appt for her. They got her in right away at 1.

Here is a pic of Lilly when we first got her. She looked terrified and she was in pain.

Poor baby had been through such a traumatic experience. She was so happy to see us.  While we were waiting to take Lilly to the vet Liz was having a bite to eat. She hadn’t eaten yet.  We knew Lilly was gonna be ok when she looked at our other dog and wanted to bite her head off for looking at Liz’s food. Lilly is very much the dominant dog.

LIz took Lilly into the vet and they saw her right away. They did a head to toe check then took her to xray. She has a fractured pelvis and has to take it easy for the next 4-6 weeks.  They sent home two weeks of pain pills home with her.  We gave her first one and it’s knocked her out. She’s being really mellow and trust me Lilly is anything but mellow. It hurts her to move even with the pain meds in her.  We are going to keep a super close eye on her for the next few days then slowly let her do a bit more.  We are just so worried about her getting hurt worse. 

She had someone looking out for her yesterday thank the Goddess! We are so very blessed she is home and safe and sound. 

Here is a pic of her all drugged up.

You can tell she’s still hurting. We were trying to get her to eat and drink a little bit. Our poor baby. 

Words of wisdom for today…Hold dear to you everything. You never know when it’s gonna be gone and sometimes you don’t realize how much someone or something means to you until it’s to late.