I your followed your advice and then some! I went to Cherrybrook (a large pet supplier about 45 minutes away) and bought "the Comfy Cone" e-collar, extreme boots for outside, self-adhering pressure tape (in three different colors!), then went to Rite-Aid and bought iodine, winding gauze and neosporin. I'll confess to buying Chagall many "extras" at Cherrybrook, including a deer antler to gnaw on and more of his favorite snack treats. The e-collar is SO HANDY, just for letting me clean and dress the wound alone it was worth it! He doesn't like wearing it--no surprise I know--but he's such a good boy he'll slink around in it if he has to. While I'm home, awake and watching him he gets a break from wearing it.
Everyone was so quickly helpful in offering me their experience-based advice, thanks for that. I realize much of this is common sense, and I promise you I DO have a brain, it just needs MUCH calming when something happens to my poodle! I can be, no, make that I AM so neurotic about him! Well now I guess you can just imagine what I put the vet through!!! Would you believe neither of my two previous dogs, who were in my life for a total of 23 years combined, ever injured a paw pad?! I was just so concerned about infection and weight bearing on the boo-boo, but for the moment all is quite well. Whew!