Blunt Trauma

(From the mind of me)



I was walking Zaba yesterday on a trail, all by our lonesomes. Zaba was leashless and running free and he started to get a little bit too far away from me. I called him back and he proceeded to charge me. He now weighs 60 pounds and is very fast- so him jumping into me at full speed was not a happy thought. When he neared I picked my knee up to discourage the jump. This only partially worked. He did a half jump, while at the same time turning his head. This caused the side of his face to hit my knee. He was moving pretty fast and that stopped him completely. He was apparently not hurt and continued to run down the trail.

When we got home I noticed that his right eye looked kind of funny and his third eyelid was coming up from the bottom of his eye. It returned to normal somewhat quickly so I thought nothing of it. Sometime later, after I returned from Asheville, Zaba's eye was looking bad again. I became worried and took him to the vet. At this point I hadn't connected the knee to the face with the eye problem. The vet talked me through possible causes of his pupil being constricted and the third eyelid rising up. He then said the most common cause is blunt trauma, which helped me remember that I did in fact knee my dog in the face (although it was partially his fault). To make this already long story come to an end soon, the vet gave me eye drops with some antibiotics in them. We only used them once and his eye has returned to normal.

The amazing thing I learned from this is that I was very concerned about him. I had been frustrated with him earlier that day, but all that was gone as soon as I saw his eye. I can only assume this is what it would be like to have a child. I'm sure they can be extremely trying at times, but when something important happens you put aside your own self to do everything you can to help them. God continues to teach me many amazing things through the Zaba.