Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Injured

We fell on some hard times at the Tester house last weekend. It involved hot lava. LOTS of hot lava.
It all started when Orcey the Orca broke his right flipper because he go too close to the edge and immersed it in the hot lava! Ouch! We worked quickly and diligently and were able to save and wrap his flipper in a cast (black of course).  We think he will be fine in about a week or two.


I thought we had it under control and went back to my work making some salt dough in the kitchen. But before I knew it, the other animals were not paying attention and they too found themselves victim of that lava!

Cheetey the Cheeta got his tail AND bottom in the lava.
 
Ouch! That's gotta hurt!


 

Poor Kitty landed in the lava on her side and needed to be wrapped up on one side.
Lionel may have gotten is worst of all as he did a BELLY FLOP into the lava!  Poor guy - he required multiple bandages arranged very strategically to help him.


 

 
Lionel will have to lay off the belly flops for awhile. 

 
the stuffed animal wing of the hospital was at full capacity

Oh what a day. Thank goodness we were able to open the hospital and get them all bandaged up.  And their best friend Curtis has been very sweet nursing them back to health. He feels really bad for them and is making sure they get lots of rest.  Maybe the saddest part of all is that it was Orcey and Cheetey's birthday and they couldn't have any cake because the Doctor said they couldn't have any food for a week.  All they wanted was to eat some sugar! Life is so unfair.

I am happy to report that Kitty seems to have made a full recovery and all her bandages have been removed.  And Orcey is almost healed as his cast has started to come off.

And don't worry, they all are now equipped with hot lava proof clothes and shouldn't have this problem again. Whew!

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