Dog Bite, New Problems

RSKY · Jul 19, 2019

I posted about a month ago about the young lady who had the stray dog come in the house and bite her. Well she now has another problem. Bear with me on this. I am reporting what the mother has said and neither of us are medical professionals. So the terminology or descriptions may not be accurate. This is all second hand info. Doing the best I can.

The mother was changing the bandages and cleaning the wounds when she noticed a place that didn't look right. So she took her to the family doctor. He cleaned the leg completely and found another similar spot a couple inches from the first. These places are in the largest of the four muscles on top of the leg that were shredded in the attack. For some reason there is a tunnel connecting the two wounds! The doctor immediately sent her to the would management center in the local hospital. They examined the leg, summoned some more doctors to look at it, and told the parents that they would have to do a procedure on it. It will set back her therapy for at least a couple weeks and be fairly expensive. Told them it could take up to fifteen days for the insurance to approve the procedure. It was late in the afternoon so the family went home. Early the next morning the wound center called the mother and basically said to heck with the insurance, if they don't pay we will eat the cost. Bring her in immediately. Cannot say for sure what the problem is other than two spots in the muscle have a tunnel between them. Can't cay for sure when the procedure will be or what it is but the mother said that the nurses were extremely concerned.

This is going to turn into a year long ordeal for the little girl.

RSKY

Diggin It · Jul 19, 2019

Infection?

ovrszd · Jul 19, 2019

Thanks for the post. Please followup with the results. As said, would assume some type of infection. It has certainly alarmed the medical staff.

jeff9366 · Jul 19, 2019

Its could be the dreaded, spreading, flesh eating bacteria. Treatment requires surgically removing all the infected material.

ovrszd · Jul 19, 2019

Yeah, I fear that as well. I believe the infected flesh rots away.

oosik · Jul 19, 2019

The only good part - the mother recognized it as a problem.

thekkfan · Jul 19, 2019

oosik said:
The only good part - the mother recognized it as a problem.

Not so. At least the doctors wanted to move forward, not waiting for insurance.

turnkey4099 · Jul 19, 2019

Are the dog owners (if known) ponying up any of the cost. IIRC a couple of girls corraled the dog and ran off.

Diggin It · Jul 19, 2019

turnkey4099 said:
Are the dog owners (if known) ponying up any of the cost. IIRC a couple of girls corraled the dog and ran off.

Based on the previous thread, owner has not been identified.

atsah · Jul 19, 2019

RSKY said:
Told them it could take up to fifteen days for the insurance to approve the procedure.

What insurance is that?

Sounds like emergency surgery to me..

RSKY · Jul 20, 2019

Clarification.

Daughter talked to the mother this morning. Well, she talks to her three or four times a day. They teach together and are best friends. They are putting a 'wound vacuum' on the leg. Don't know exactly what that is but a lady in our neighborhood with diabetes had to have one on a place on her leg that wouldn't heal.

Also the people at the wound clinic said that the insurance would SOMETIMES take up to fifteen days to approve the machine. I don't have any idea about how their insurance has handled it. I haven't talked to the mother since last Saturday so once again everything is second or third hand info.

Daughter was shown a picture of the girl's leg right after they got to hospital. Said it looked like the pictures you see when a grizzly bear claws something, four long wound channels. The femur was visible.

The wound did not bleed. And Malley never cried. At least until they gave her the rabies shots which went straight in to the wounds. I thought they went into the stomach but that is not true.

RSKY

Alan W. · Jul 20, 2019

Terrible setback for an innocent child already suffering from one ordeal.

Insurance companies have their own rules.

We will continue to keep her and family in our prayers.

JamesHW · Jul 21, 2019

The brave little girl will be in our prayers.

We lost my little sis to an aggressive staph infection in her leg after a severe traffic accident. She was flown from a rural road to a hospital where two teams of surgeons worked on her leg and head simultaneously to try to save her life. She survived but in a coma for almost a year and the infection would cause her temps to rise, returning her to the ICU and setting back the small signs of recovery until finally we had to let her go. They used all sorts of ways to fight the infection including putting antibiotic pebbles into her bone, but in the end her body was not able to fight it off and she could not consciously fight it due to her coma. That was 20 years ago.

I myself was hospitalized w/ an aggressive infection in the skin on my knee after bumping it at work. They were able to kill it off using penicillin even though I was allergic to it, I was able to abide it and the infection was eliminated and only had a not too serious reaction after three weeks of the stuff. Doc said if I had ignored it for 24 hours they would likely had to have taken the leg.

1010 · Jul 21, 2019

Thank heavens she's getting treatment.. Prayer sent for the young lady!

95XL883 · Jul 21, 2019

Our thoughts and prayers for the little girl and her family. It痴 good to know the mom took her in as soon as she suspected something. May her recovery be swift and complete.

Alien · Jul 21, 2019

Very sad for the family.
There have been a couple of nasty dog attacks in Australia recently resulting in death and serious injury to others trying to stop the dogs. The last 2 were American Pit Bulls. One suddenly turned on his owner who loved the dog dearly. Very shocking and sad.

shooterdon · Jul 21, 2019

Very sad to hear and prayers for her.

Any aggressive dog on my property will be shot immediately. There will not be a second chance. If I am walking on state land....same outcome.

One advantage of living on 20 acres backing onto 4000+ acres of state land, with the closest neighbor 3/4 miles away and the closest dog owner 2 miles away. There should not be a dog near me, but if there is, it better be a "good" doggy if it wants to live.

I had friends who lost their dog when a farmer who shot it. They let the dog run free and were very upset when the farmer killed it. That dog loved them to death, but they could not know what mischief their little buddy may have got into on his own. If you own a dog, control it and keep it on your property. If it gets shot, it is your fault.

ovrszd · Jul 21, 2019

shooterdon said:
Very sad to hear and prayers for her.

Any aggressive dog on my property will be shot immediately. There will not be a second chance. If I am walking on state land....same outcome.

One advantage of living on 20 acres backing onto 4000+ acres of state land, with the closest neighbor 3/4 miles away and the closest dog owner 2 miles away. There should not be a dog near me, but if there is, it better be a "good" doggy if it wants to live.

I had friends who lost their dog when a farmer who shot it. They let the dog run free and were very upset when the farmer killed it. That dog loved them to death, but they could not know what mischief their little buddy may have got into on his own. If you own a dog, control it and keep it on your property. If it gets shot, it is your fault.

Yep, I agree.

Sigarms · Jul 21, 2019

shooterdon said:
Any aggressive dog on my property will be shot immediately. There will not be a second chance. If I am walking on state land....same outcome.

1 - "Aggressive dog" can be a subjective term. Is the dog barking at you, standing "it's ground" aggressive?
2 - If you're walking on state game land and you shoot a dog and the owner is near, I'd have no qualms if the dog's owner was in fear for their life and nueturalized you.

Point being, when you're off YOUR property, you can not hold a strange dog to the same standards to which you consider it "agressive" and shoot it without running a higher chance of repercussion.

On your property, do what you want and don't say anything. Off your property, you WILL be held to a higher standard, worst case, by the law.

Don't be stupid.

ovrszd · Jul 21, 2019

Sigarms said:
1 - "Aggressive dog" can be a subjective term. Is the dog barking at you, standing "it's ground" aggressive?
2 - If you're walking on state game land and you shoot a dog and the owner is near, I'd have no qualms if the dog's owner was in fear for their life and nueturalized you.

Point being, when you're off YOUR property, you can not hold a strange dog to the same standards to which you consider it "agressive" and shoot it without running a higher chance of repercussion.

On your property, do what you want and don't say anything. Off your property, you WILL be held to a higher standard, worst case, by the law.

Don't be stupid.

Are you saying it's alright to kill a human because they killed a dog?