Check-up For Cody

We had the vet out yesterday for Cody's check-up.  He cleaned it up really good and wrapped it back up.  Cody is once again stuck in a stall until his next appointment.  Dr. Chris doesn't seem real hopeful that it didn't hit the bone.  He seems to think that Cody was kicking at something (like a fly) and his leg hit the fence.  He thinks the fence may have hit his bone and that's where the infection originated.  If that is the case, we'll have to choose between surgery and euthanizing him.  He told us yesterday that the surgery is expensive.  (we already knew that from the last visit though)  He says it's still just a waiting game to see what happens.  We have to make an appointment to have his leg x-rayed in a week or so.  He was a real pain in the ass yesterday so I can only imagine how he'd be with an x-ray machine.  (they had to sedate him TWICE) For now we have to give him tons more antibiotics, try to keep his bandage from falling off, and keep him quiet.  None of those things are proving easy, especially now that he knows what the antibiotics taste like. 

I just heard about the newest hostage in Iraq.  He lives within miles of me, literally.  I feel awful for his family.  You know they'll never let him come home alive now.  On top of knowing that he's probably going to die, they're going to have to hear about it on tv everyday.  Especially once he's died.  They'll have to watch those videos of his very last moments.  I get that the news has to report what is going on in the world and that it's even bigger news if it's happening to someone that lives within the viewing area of the broadcast but I hope they take the families feelings into consideration when they're showing awful things like that.  I know I wouldn't want to sit there and see guns held to my dad's head over and over again throughout the day.