Poor Rosie:かわいそうなロージ

I decided to write the blog in Japanese today, for some reason. An English translation follows. (And a googlation)

かわいそうなロージ。昨日正ちゃんの会社のバーベキューに行ったら、ロージが子供たちとサッカーして遊んでいました。とても楽しそうにはしゃいで、ボールを追いかけまわしていました。遊び疲れて、私と正ちゃんのもとに戻ってきたら妙に歩き方がおかしかったし、ものすごくヘロヘロで歩きにくそうでした。私はそれを見てとても不安になって、「ひょっとしたら骨が折れたんちゃうか」と心配して、バーベキューを早退して、動物病院に連れて行きました。

動物病院について、足裏をよくよくみてみたら４本の足とも肉球がひどく切り裂けていて、爪も何本かかけていました。おそらくコンクリートでいっぱい走っていたせいでしょう、ああなるとは絶対に思っていませんでした。ロージちゃんが本当に辛そうでかわいそうでした。でも獣医さんに相談をしたところ、ガーゼを巻いてもそれが気になって自分でとってしまい、よけい悪くなるケースが多いと言われ、結局、抗生物質だけをもらって帰りました。

今日もまだとても痛そうに歩いていて、自力で公園まで行くのも無理そうだから、正ちゃんと私が交代でだっこして持って行っています。手押し車にでも乗せてつれて行こうとも思っていたんですが、一度入れてみたらすごく嫌がってもう手押し車に近づいてくれません。

このかわいそうな我が娘が早く治ることを祈ります。

update:今朝は少しマシになりました。

Poor Rosie. Yesterday we went to a barbecue at Sho-chan's company and Rosie played soccer with some of the kids there. She looked like she was really having a good time running around like wild and chasing the ball. But, when she finally got tired of playing and came back to where Sho-chan and I were sitting she was walking kind of strangely. She looked really exhausted and like she was having trouble walking. I got really worried when I saw that, thinking that maybe somehow she had broken a bone or something, and we left the BBQ right away to take her to the animal hospital.

When we got to the hospital and took a good look at the bottom of her feet, we saw that all four of her paws were badly cut, and some of her nails were broken. Probably from running around on the concrete, but I never would have thought that could happen. Her paws looked so painful and I felt so sorry for her. When we asked the vet what to do, she said that in most cases even if you bandage the paw, the dog will just be bothered by it and pull the bandage off by itself, just making things worse, so we just got some anti--biotics and took her home.

Today she's still walking really painfully and it seems like getting to the park to pee under her own steam is going to be impossible, so Sho-chan and I are taking turns carrying her. We thought about using a wheelbarrow or something, but when we tried to put her in it, she totally freaked out and now she won't even go near it.

I hope our poor daughter will recover quickly.

update: She's doing a little better today.

Google version:

Rosi poor. Yesterday her company's positive, you want to barbecue, low. The kids and playing with the soccer. Mirthfully very fired up, chased the ball around. Play tired, and I go back under her positive when it is OKASHIKATTA walking strangely, it was extremely difficult HEROHERO walk. I was very anxious to see the "chances are that her bones were broken," and worried about the barbecue to leave early and went with animal hospital.

Animal Hospital of feet, it is often common in the four ball feet with a badly cut meat Resona tear, and the nail was also some time. Perhaps full concrete I ran because it was, I think it is absolutely not. I'm sorry I really spicy. But a veterinarian's advice to him, gauze wrapped around it on one's own is taking her six-worse in many cases it is said that, he went back to get antibiotics only.

Today it is still very painful to walk, and the park on one's own is not likely to go of the positive and I take turns on her lap to take. In a wheelbarrow accompaniment of a lift and thought I'd go, but once I really hate it wanted to cart approached me.

The poor can heal our daughter is quick to pray.

update: this morning a little BETTER.

Just call me Ol' Broken-toe

So, I just got back from my visit to the States the day before yesterday (Thanks everyone, I miss you already!) and things were going great! I had my first lesson, distributed some o-miyage and had dinner with Sho-chan's family. Then I did a very stupid thing.

I'm sure everyone has experienced this; you wake up in the middle of the night and you have to pee, you take a step out of bed and your leg collapses because you were lying on it funny and it went numb. You probably haven't experienced this though; you try to stand up but your foot is too numb to feel, so you put it down exactly wrong and break your pointer-toe!

Exhibit A


Go me! This is probably the stupidest way to break a bone ever.

At first I didn't even realize it, I just went to the bathroom and then went to get back into bad, but I when I walked I noticed my foot was hurting like hell, so I turned on the light to have a look at it. Sure enough, my pointer toe was bent at a crazy angle (see exhibit A) and hurt like a bastard when I tried to move it. I've never broken a bone before, but still I was pretty sure that's what I'd just done.

Luckily Sho-chan was there and drove me to the hospital even though it was 4:30 in the morning. They took some x-rays and all of the nurses and the doctor were very nice. They even let me take a picture (exhibit B) of the x-rays so I could put it up on this blog! (One of the nurses asked me if she could have the blog address to see what I wrote, so if she's reading this, I'd like to say: 「三田市民病院救急室の皆さん、ありがとうございます！」)

Exhibit B


As you can see, I busted the 3rd bone in my right pointer toe, right at the joint. I just looked it up online (and you can too: http://www.bcfootandankle.com/footanat.htm) and apparently this bone is called the 'Second Proximal Phalange'. Anyway, they took the x-rays and then the doctor told me he could probably realign it by hand, so they gave me two shots of local anaesthetic and the doctor pulled and poked and prodded the Second Proximal Phalange piece back into place. Then they took another x-ray (exhibit C) to see how it looked (The Japanese at the top BTW means 'after repositioning'.)

Exhibit C


As you can see it turned out pretty OK, so they decided I didn't need surgery, gave me some pain-killers and sent me home.

Exhibit D


Sayonara and Goog Morninger

This is Ol' Broken-toe signing off!