Finally! What a relief!. The drama is almost over even though the vet said it will take a while to get better. I took Sparky, my beautiful labrador, for a follow up visit for a change of bandage and the vet said it is healing! He said it is bleeding which is a sign that it is healing. Sparky kept licking the wound for six months so it wouldn’t bleed. But now with a thick splint as hard as a cast, there is no way that he can take it off.
The vet said for the next month the bandage has to be changed every five days as new skin starts to form on the wound, he will be scraping off the old skin. And as time goes by, the time in between to change the bandage will be lessened.
I have been talking a lot about our inner wounds in the last six months in this blog as a mirror of the financial meltdown. It made me think of what the vet said today: “It needs to bleed to heal.” Ironic right? This financial meltdown for some of us who lost major income during this time felt like a bleeding to death. I really have never experienced anything like this. So now the pain is lessened and I am moving forward. I have gone through the worst part.
And now hopefully our economy too is on its way to recovery. The worst may be over, but it will take time, probably several years to heal.
One last thought. I realized when I did my slide show of the entrance and exit sign, I forgot to include the picture of the exit where I had my crash. I mentioned it in the post the other day. The exit looks different because that too has been changed and renovated. It is past and I am moving forward and much has been healed. Maybe one day, I’ll post it, but for now it is not important.
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