Poor Poor Puppy

So on Saturday Jon and I went to a barbaque with some friends. We had a lot of fun, but when we got back, we noticed that Molly was wimpering a lot. Some of our neighbors were shooting fireworks, so we thought she was just afraid of those. Later that night, I noticed that her eye was swollen and icky and stuck shut! Well, it was midnight, so I decided I would look at it in the morning when I could give her a bath and rinse her eye off good.

We get home from church on Sunday, and after washing Molly off and getting her eye to open a little, I see something big and green in it! I quickly found out that it was a fox-tail burr! I tried to pull it out, but it had attached itself to the inside of her top eyelid! Poor girl! Everytime she rubbed it she would yelp. Anyway, I figured that it would probably do more damage for me to pull it out, so I found a few vets that are open on Sundays and called around. I got ahold of three of them, and they all agreed that it was imperative to get the burr out right away or risk her eye getting more infected and possibly going blind or losing her eye all together! So while Jon and his parents were fixing our water softener (it had started leaking over the weekend too, of course!) I rushed Molly over to the Pet Care Center in Taylorsville/Murray area. They rushed her back there and ($216 later!) we were able to get the burr out of her eye and give me some meds to take home with her. So now she has to wear a funny little collar so she won't scratch her eye and make it worse. At first, she just stood there and wouldn't move, but finally today (Tuesday) she even went up the porch stairs! She's doing lots better now, and as long as we keep the meds in her she's not in any pain. Here's some pictures of her:

She's so depressed, this is right after I brought her home.