Here we are…..1o days after surgery and, while things are not super easy, we have had some huge improvements:
– Cookie (a.k.a. 3LC in the hip hop world) now gets up on her own to go potty and will wait by the door until “someone” notices….all things are finally regular so that is a big relief compared to the first few days where she didn’t have it in her to go out for a no.2 just for the sake of it.
– we are slowly weening her off the meds and that is having a big impact on mood and desire to be mobile. We are trying to do it gradually tough just to be on the safe side and to make the meds last just a little longer without having to buy new ones.
– some of the stitches are starting to come out on their own and I was kind of surprised when V. found a metal staple in 3LC’s bed. So now the FrankenScar is healing well but we can say that our dog was kind of stapled back together in some of the less important areas. Not sure how I feel about that, but I know that if I go to the hospital I’d probably hope I didn’t get stapled back together.
– 3LC is back to guarding duty: she still barks at other dogs and people walking by but does it for now from the comfort of her bed, confident that the neighborhood knows her bark and that “evil beings” will stay away just by hearing her..
The most beautiful thing though is when we stay with her in the evening. We will all be together and last night, as we were watching the Lance Armstrong/Oprah special, she fell asleep and started dreaming. It was obvious she was in some type of field running, but the sweetest thing was watching her dream as a QuadriPawd: she was running and jumping but you could clearly see she was moving all 4 legs, even the one that’s not there……..so we took a photo of her new “resting” pose and superimposed it on an old one:
Everybody knows it’s not there…..but it doesn’t hurt to dream and be happy like a QuadriPawd…..
I’m so happy to hear your girl is feeling so much better. It’s amazing how well dogs adapt to an amputation. Honestly, before you know it you’ll catch yourself trying to remember what it was like when she had 4 legs! And that is a great photo of your girl, then and now!
so nice to hear you all are going back to normal! Have a lovely weekend! hugs 🙂
Thank you so much guys!!
Cookie’s finding her new normal, and that’s a good thing. Well, guard duty is obviously the most important job, but after that is the other stuff. Including napping, running in her sleep and dream yipping. So glad to hear she’s finding her way!
Shari