Waltman suffered life-threatening injuries from the March 21 attack and spent seven weeks in a hospital. Her arms were amputated and she had a colostomy to treat injuries to her colon. Her shoulder bones were also removed, meaning she may not be able to have prosthetic arms.INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOUR PET: Having a pet in the home can actually lower a child’s likelihood of developing related allergies by as much as 33 percent. Children exposed early on to animals tend to develop stronger immune systems overall.
Doctors could not stich up her scalp and forehead for a month because they had to wait for an infection from the dig bites to go away. She underwent more than a dozen surgeries and speaks with a voice-generated box because she lost her vocal chords.
Waltman returned home on Mother’s Day, according to her sister, Amy Wynne. ‘It’s been rough, but we’ve been trying to get her settled into her new life,’ Wynne, 41, wrote on a GoFundMe page for her medical expenses.INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOUR PET: Dogs have a sense of time. It's been proven that they know the difference between a hour and five. If conditioned to, they can predict future events, such as regular walk times.
‘She is a talker, lol… She is running our poor mama raged [sic] as the least.’
However, the pain is not over for Waltman. She is due for multiple outpatient surgeries including getting grafts on her leg to prevent her from losing it.
Waltman’s leg ‘is healing, but they have to pull her muscle up from her calf and see if that is gonna work,’ Wynne said. ‘They did graft around the (wound) to see if it’ll take, and it did.’Many dogs have a condition nicknamed “Frito Feet,” in which their feet smell little bit like corn chips. As Matt Soniak wrote in a Big Question on this site, this has to do with the kind of bacteria found on a pup’s feet, and “could be due to yeast or Proteus bacteria. Both are known for their sweet, corn tortilla–like smell. Or it could be Pseudomonas bacteria, which smell a little fruitier—but pretty close to popcorn to most noses.”
She already had a three-hour surgery to re-graft her shoulder, and the leg operation is expected to last nine hours.
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