bae
4-26-11, 2:50pm
My Basset Hound uses her nose as a tool. A lot.
A couple of years ago, she managed to tear a blood vessel inside her nose, and was shooting blood all over with every heartbeat. Holding an 85 pound Basset down to apply direct pressure to its sensitive nose with gauze, somehow allowing it to breath, while driving to the vet was a challenge, as was holding it down while we cauterized the injury. I had to burn my clothes afterwards, essentially.
The vet told us it was likely to happen again, and gave us a couple of BloodSTOP veterinary-grade hemostatic gauze packages to use the next time.
Well, last night, about midnight, as I was letting the dog in, it basically exploded in our mud room. It looked like a bad scene from Dexter, blood was spraying everywhere - it was much worse than last time. To make matters worse, my wife and kid were away, and I was basically one-legged, because I sprained the heck out of my ankle this weekend, and am still not really walking.
Luckily, I had the BloodSTOP product prepositioned in the first aid kit in the mud room, as well as a mountain of gauze. And I remembered to strip down to my skivies before diving into the blood. I popped open the package, only to find a very small strip of gauze, about the size of a small bandaid - 1/2" x 2". I thought this wasn't a good sign, but I wet it as directed, and then wrestled the dog down, and placed that little bit of gauze up inside the vast Basset nose with a Q-tip, and held it for a bit.
Amazing stuff. The high-pressure spurting stopped within a few seconds. I held pressure a bit with some cotton gauze to be sure.
Of course, at just that moment the door opens, and there is my wife, viewing giant Basset being wrestled by nearly-nekkid husband, with blood everywhere. Perfect.
Dog seems fine now, no bleeding still, the vet says I probably don't even need to recauterize the nose.
A decent product.
A couple of years ago, she managed to tear a blood vessel inside her nose, and was shooting blood all over with every heartbeat. Holding an 85 pound Basset down to apply direct pressure to its sensitive nose with gauze, somehow allowing it to breath, while driving to the vet was a challenge, as was holding it down while we cauterized the injury. I had to burn my clothes afterwards, essentially.
The vet told us it was likely to happen again, and gave us a couple of BloodSTOP veterinary-grade hemostatic gauze packages to use the next time.
Well, last night, about midnight, as I was letting the dog in, it basically exploded in our mud room. It looked like a bad scene from Dexter, blood was spraying everywhere - it was much worse than last time. To make matters worse, my wife and kid were away, and I was basically one-legged, because I sprained the heck out of my ankle this weekend, and am still not really walking.
Luckily, I had the BloodSTOP product prepositioned in the first aid kit in the mud room, as well as a mountain of gauze. And I remembered to strip down to my skivies before diving into the blood. I popped open the package, only to find a very small strip of gauze, about the size of a small bandaid - 1/2" x 2". I thought this wasn't a good sign, but I wet it as directed, and then wrestled the dog down, and placed that little bit of gauze up inside the vast Basset nose with a Q-tip, and held it for a bit.
Amazing stuff. The high-pressure spurting stopped within a few seconds. I held pressure a bit with some cotton gauze to be sure.
Of course, at just that moment the door opens, and there is my wife, viewing giant Basset being wrestled by nearly-nekkid husband, with blood everywhere. Perfect.
Dog seems fine now, no bleeding still, the vet says I probably don't even need to recauterize the nose.
A decent product.