Hi everyone today my dog got disemboweled. Seriously. Come inside and I'll tell you all about it.
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So I'm sitting at the computer, as usual, when I hear the most disturbing painful screaming coming from outside. It sounds like the usual beagle scream that sadie usually makes except about ten times worse. It's coming from the front yard though so I didn't think it was her. This goes on for about 20 seconds seconds while I listen and am pretty sure that's the sound of a dog dying
Suddenly, the front door slams shut and I hear "BOBBY! GET DOWN HERE". I run downstairs to find my mom laying on top of sadie who is continuing this god awful death scream.
Apparently what had happened was this: My mom had taken sadie outside on a leash in the front yard to use the bathroom. Sadie just got spayed two days ago so she was taking it easy. The neighbors dog was also outside, about to take a shit in our yard while their owners watched, as usual. Sadie is a pretty antisocial dog so she starts screaming at it and it runs away. This is when it happened. Dear god. She starts to scream and bam, the incision opens and her guts start to come out. My mother instantly grabs her and runs inside, where I come in.
She tells me to hold sadie down on the front door rug while she gets a blanket to wrap her in and the car keys. The entire time she's doing this, sadie is continuing the screaming. The worst, most horrific sound I've ever heard. I can barely stop myself from crying while I'm laying on top of her trying to hold her intestines in.
We wrap her in a blanket and run to the car to go to the 24 vet 20 minutes away, through rush hour traffic on the highway. The entire time I'm holding sadie in my lap trying to keep her calm. Every bump, acceleration and lane change brings more pain-filled screaming.
And the smell. The smell was worse than the sound. Dogs intenstines have a very distict, very foul stink. Combine that with shit, piss and blood and you can imagine what my pants smelled like. I could barely stop myself from vomiting.
So we got to the vet and admitted her. They immediately rush sadie into the operating room while I handle the bill and my mom is crying uncontrollably. Apparently we had an outstanding bill. Thank god for credit cards.
The surgery lasted an hour, which my mom and I spend watching WWE Smackdown with the volume turned all the way down. They had midget wrestling, which helped to lighten the mood a little.
I had to wear scrub pants since my sweats had shit and piss on them and my boxers were soaked in dark red blood.
The doctor comes into our holding room and tells us that she had to remove 5 inches of intestine that had died and filled our dog full of synthetic blood.
I got home and immediately took a shower. I could still smell that awful stink as I went to the convience store to buy beer. And now I'm drinking corona, typing this, trying to forget everything that happened today, but I doubt I will.
Oh yeah, sadie will be hospitalized for a few days and should be ok after a week. There's still a chance she could face another surgery or even die.