Broken Leg @ MindSay

Okay, so today, I worked in the Pet Resort walking dogs.  Was having fun actually.  Was feeling better.  And it was busy to the point where it wasn't "pull my hair out" busy.  So, that's always a good thing.

Well, we have this puppy, a husky, staying with us.  Poor puppy had broken his leg a month ago.  So, he was in a splint. 

It was really dirty, and slipping off his leg, since it had rained last night and we didn't put a bag on his leg because he was the first dog we walked and I didn't realize how bad it was until we got out there.

WELL, I called over to the hospital (which was across the street), and told them I was bringing the puppy over.  I drove over, like I had done millions of times before with other dogs. 

I lifted the dog out of my car, so he wouldn't have to jump down with his broken leg.  Had ahold of the leash.  However, when I turned around to shut the door, he saw something and booked it.  The leash slid right through my hand.  Now, there is no leash, and my job is RIGHT on the busy road.  A VERY busy road.  He started running towards it.

Slow at first.  I sped up, and so did he.  I almost had his tail so that I could grab it and then jump on him, but my foot hit the curb wrong and I went HEAD FIRST right into the cement/road.  I didn't hit my face, but my arm, elbow, and right leg is messed up pretty badly.

Luckily, a client was walkign his dog and saw me fall.  He came to the rescue and the little puppy went to them wanting to play.  THANK GOD.

I grabbed the leash and took him inside and collapsed on the floor in the treatment room.  After they asked if I was okay and if the dog was okay, they all started bustin' out laughin at the situation.

Crazy day...crazy crazy day...haha.

I finished reading Touching the Void, by Joe Ball, a phenomenal true story of two climbers in a remote mountain range in South America.  They were low on oxygen and food when an accident occurred, resulting in Joe's breaking his leg.  When this occurs it almost certainly means that a climber will perish as there is no way of getting down a mountain safely.  But they tried.  I didn't understand the technical terms but at one point Joe was hanging on the rope about to pull his partner, Simon, off the mountain.  Simon had to cut the rope, and Joe fell down a crevasse.  He survived!!!! but was unable to climb out.  So he abseiled down further, incredibly managing to find a way out of the crevasse.

But at this point he was a long way from camp so for the next two days (with some sleep) he managed to crawl or hop across the glacier, then eventually on a rocky section.  He found some water here, but still hadn't eaten.  By the time he got to the camp, where Simon had stayed an extra night, he was just a centimetre away from death.

There's too much to explain in this blog, but what i learnt is that the human mind is able to push the body to incomprehensible extremes.  He could have fallen to the ground and given up, but he kept fighting and fighting for his life.  It was an incredible story.