Husband Got Attacked By A Dog And Ended Up Spending A Week In The Hospital.

Hey all, just looking for some advice on how to best proceed after my husband just got out of the hospital. Apologies if this is a long story, TLDR at the end.

My husband and I live in Washington DC and I am currently deployed overseas. My husband and my dog went down to North Carolina for the new years and stayed with some friends. Two of the other friends brought their dogs as well, one of whom we later learned tends to be “weird around other dogs”. On the morning of 30 Dec, the other friends left their dogs at the house unaccompanied, and as my husband and my dog were walking upstairs, the other dogs ran up and started attacking my dog.

My dog was startled and tried to defend herself, but the other dogs flanked her and started to attack from both sides. One latched onto her neck and the other latched onto her front leg. My husband was caught in the middle of it and tried to get the dogs off her, at which point the dogs both started taking bites out of him.

After he was able to fend off the dogs and another occupant of the house locked them up, my husband was rushed to the ER with wounds to both hands and my dog was rushed to vet. My husband was stitched up but was warned about possible infection. The dog was stitched up as well. My husband drove back to DC that night with the dog.

On NYE, my husband woke up in extreme pain. He went to the ER for pain meds, where they proceeded to check him in and schedule him for urgent surgery the next morning to clear infection and repair tendons in his right hand. He spent the following 5 days as an inpatient being constantly monitored for infection. All the while, we’ve had some great friends who helped with the dog, and I just got home on Friday from deployment on emergency leave to help take care of him for the next week or so.

When all is said and done, my husband has now endured stitches, surgery, a hospital stay, a series of rabies vaccines, and tends of thousands of mgs of antibiotics. My dog had one emergency surgery and now is living her best cone life. I’ve had to fly home from a deployment to ensure they’re both ok. The owners of the dogs have yet to reach out and, as far as I’m tracking, have been traveling up and down the east coast since the incident.

My husband is in his final semester of commercial flight school, which he will now have to postpone as he doesn’t have full use of his hands. He’s also had to take time off work.

I was planning to reach out to a personal injury lawyer today on his behalf, but I wanted to check here first to see if there was anything else he and I should be considering. I’m hoping this is an easy process, but I’ve never dealt with something like the before.

TL;DR: Husband and my dog were attacked by two dogs, husband subsequently spent 5 days in the hospital and will now likely have to delay graduation by 1-2 semesters. Dog and husband will be ok, but looking for advice on how to proceed.