Severe pelvic fractures following road accident

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My JRT was run over today. He has 3 fractures of the pelvis and one of femur. The car wheels ran over him flattening the pelvis. fracture of the pubis and the ilium. His spine not fractured, tail still wagging, he had fluid in the chest cavity attributed to shock oedema which as now dispersed. He was stabilised and 12 hours later he is pain medicated, sitting up and drink water. He is wimpering and wagging tail. Vet thought internal bleeding may cause death within hours but it seems that is not happening, as his respirations and heart rate is improving.

So anyone else experienced the same thing and what was your outcome?
Any advice info would be much appreciated, I am reading loads but not a lot on internet so your experiences may help me to help him.

Vet says orthopaedic surgeon will be called in the morning if he is making good progress still and he may need operating on.

Lots of good vibes please for my darling doggie, he means everything to us.
 
Oh my Gosh - you poor thing and poor dog :(

I have no experience of this whatsoever but I really do hope that your dog pulls through. How awful for you :(
 
How awful :( did you see what happened or was he off on one of his solo runs?
He's fit and healthy and that will stand him in good stead.
I *think* Heidi123 or something similar, on here, had a lab who was pretty smashed up in a car accident but who has recovered fine.
My own dogs had broke a leg and dislocated a hip respectively in a car crash, the former dog was younger, had it pinned and bounced right back.
Older female was also fine for another few years until her unrelated death.
Hope he pulls through - and I hope he is insured! x
 
So sorry to read this. A friends JRT was run over & had to have his femur pinned. After several weeks crate rest he made a full recovery. Fingers crossed for him. x
 
A whippet I took on shattered her pelvis when hit by a car on the way out of the dog track, it took 3 months of helping her to the toilet or to be mobile via the aid of a towel:D and her bladder had to be expressed at first and faeces would run away from her, but slowly she regained full bladder function and became mobile, her pelvis was left to heal without any operation but this was 10 years ago, we have some fantastic orphopedic surgeons, wagging his tail is a very good sign, is he able to pass urine and faeces as usually with this kind of injury there is temp nerve damage or obviously sometimes perminant, it can be very time consuming helpeing them out in the early stages with support and def strict crate rest to keep them immobile and urine pads as they can seem incntinent also until they regain control of the bladder and the swelling of the sorrounding tissues subsides.

Huge vibes, I hope everything turns out well xx nice to hear he is waggy his tail:)
 
Firstly hugs to you it must have been equally traumatic for you, they mean so much to us.

My YO's labrador went to sleep under a lorry parked at the yard while the owners went off XC schooling on a hot sunny day a few years ago. Unfortunately when they went to go home he didn't wake up and the lorry ran his rear end over - broken legs, pelvis & badly squashed boy bits. He was a total mess, but the vet said he could save him and YO wanted to give him a chance.

It was a long time before we saw him at the yard again and when he did appear he was a shaddow of his former self with very wobbly back legs and withered back end. However he was a young dog when the accident happened and with gentle exercise and plenty of TLC you would now never know he'd had the accident. He has also sired a litter of puppies (on purpose as his breeders wanted a litter). His legs are a normal shape and his muscles have built up in his rear end and he is a very large lab so has a decent body weight to carry around.

Really hope your little JRT makes a good recovery.

JDx
 
Oh no. :( Hope he heals up ok.

PM Heidi123 on here, her wee terrier was in a pretty bad way after being hit by a car, and is back up and causing mayhem again! She might be able to give you some advice
 
Not quite the response you'd expect, but we had a cat run over like this six years ago. After a couple of operations, lots of pins, splints and the care of a fantastic vet, the cat is like new again. You wouldn't even have known a year later. The hardest part was keeping him still when he was recovering...

If he's got through the first night, and is wagging and eating, I'd say he must surely stand a good chance. Fingers crossed for you...xxx
 
poor little lad, big vibes to him and you. my first ever jrt had the same thing happen (run over at slow speed by a van driver right in front of me as I yelled at him to stop, the cretin) and her pelvis was fractured. She was very very sorry for herself for a few days (lived by the aga, had to be carried outside to do her business every couple of hours, through the night too) but she made a full recovery and could run really well with the others, jump in the horsebox, etc. Vets did not operate, I think it must have been a stable fracture because after x-raying they left it to heal itself.
her back end always looked slightly 'wrong' but it muscled up well and was perfectly serviceable! Hope your little lad comes right too.
 
My wee doggie Dicky took a turn for the worse at 2am and died shortly after.
I am in pieces. Vet said he was improving at 8 pm when we saw him last, he was sitting up and I gave him some water. He seemed distressed because he was in a cage and although we cuddled him we had to leave him. The nurse switched out the light.
I should have remembered how distressed he was at the kennels when we had to leave him. I think he was in pain, in the dark and alone and frightened and I wasn't there with him.
I think his little body couldn't take anymore and he slipped away.
I feel terrible. He was everything, my world and I am heartbroken.
 
im so sorry to hear that, im sure you must be devastated, its such a shock to be told and to see they're doing ok, then suddenly get the call a few hours later that the worst has happened

i think i know whats going thro your mind at the moment, torturing yourself that somehow you're to blame for 'leaving him to die alone'. my sweet jrtx died, after a sudden illness, at the vets last year and altho rationally i know i did the best thing by leaving her there for treatment, i still wish with all my heart that id been with her when she died, and wondering if, had i taken her home to nurse, she'd have survived. You had no option but to leave him at the vets tho, you did what was best for him and you have to keep reminding yourself of that.

Miss Finley knew how much i loved her and your Dicky knew too how much he was loved. They are with us for a relatively short time, their passing causes as much grief as would any other family member but during their lives they bring us such joy, unconditional love and have unlimited zest for each new day and in time you will be able to remember him at his best.

Again, im so very sorry for your loss
 
so sorry to hear that Storminateacup, but you had to leave him there, because that's the only place they could give him the kind of treatment he needed. I'm sure he would have gone to sleep and just slipped away if he felt that weak... don't beat yourself up about it. He knew you loved him, and you did the best thing for him. *big hugs*
 
I'm so sorry to hear this, but I completely agree with everyone - you did your absolute best for him and he was in the best place possible for him to be. Please try not to beat yourself up over it (I've been there too, it's tough) and remember everyone in here is brilliant if you need some support, it really helped when we lost our spaniel. Big hug from me too x

Rest in peace Dicky x
 
I am so so sorry to read this, after a positive report from the vet it must have come as such a shock to lose him. But, as everyone else has said you did your very best for him.

Hugs to you and RIP little fella.

JDx
 
I am ill with grief, my husband is distraught too. Dicky was our baby. We meet late in life and bought Dicky the following year, we were too old to have children. We buried him yesterday at mother in laws croft. We were due to move the horses there at the weekend and Dicky loved it there so much and he would have had every day to run, and chase rabbits and small things in the grass. We had been preparing the farm for the horses for the past two weeks and had spent a fortune on new post and rail fence, and a tractor and mowers and hay and now I cannot bear the thought of going there ever again. I feel incapable of looking after the horses. I am terrified the youngster will get sick or injured there and I cannot handle it. Sadly I had just had my first hack out on him on the tuesday, he has just been backed and he was sooo good. I was looking forward to being able to take him out on the forest rides near the croft with Dicky running free along side us and my hubby on my old cob.
We had a series of bad luck in the last month , ranging from me having terrible toothache for two weeks a fortnight ago to our 4WD needing £2000 worth of repairs and endless pitfall and financial disasters in getting equipment and timber to the farm in time.
Losing Dicky at the end of all this was the final straw, all our plans and hopes and dreams seemed to have been blown apart by his terrible death and I am inconsolable.
 
I am so sorry for your loss. Nothing anyone can say or write will ease your pain at the moment. Don't feel guilty, you did everything in your power to save him & the life he had with you was filled with love, what more could a little dog wish for.
 
So, so sorry to hear your news .........:(:(

I can only echo what all the others have said - you did your very best for him and above all else, you loved him like no other. Don't feel guilty about greiving. It's perfectly natural, so let it take it's course. Both of you have had a hard time of it lately, but let time help your healing, no matter how long it takes. Sending some (((((hugs))))) to be going on with.

And don't forget - we are all here for you, with incredibly waterproof shoulders, should you need them............

C xx
 
Oh Hun, I've got floods of tears running down my face after your last post. Why does s**t happen to the nicest of people, sometimes life is just so unfair.

Please please look after yourselves, time will help as I'm sure you know, but for now just let it out if you need to and remember everyone on here is thinking of you.

Take care

JDx
 
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