5
Apr
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Welcome to yet another “A Dog’s Blog”
Two weeks ago, I would be the last one to tell you that having my leg amputated was a good thing, but given all the pain I must have been in, it may very well have been the right move.
To give you an idea of how this all went down, please read my prior posts about my stupid under-the-fence manuveur. Really bright move for a smart dog (duh!).
Anyway, with 48 hours after my operation – scars can be seen in the picture, I was startign to come down from the pain meds and I was sure I was going to be screaming. But… believe it or not, all of the pain I had had for the previous 10 days was gone. Sure I had new pain, but nothing like the daily pain I was feeling on a moment-to-moment basis.
I know my parents were waiting for a sign, and I was more than happy to give my dad one. I wagged my tail like crazy and I could see the smile on his face immedately. It must have been the first time he smiled with me in more than two weeks. I got up – well, I tried to get up, and that didn’t quite work yet, and I was pretty unhappy that something was missing, but if he was smiling and I was in less pain, then maybe everything was going to be alright after all.
Before we went to bed last night, he gave me one of my favorite treats and I ate the whole thing. Maybe I was even getting my appetite back.
I hope so… I’m starving.
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16
Mar
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After the surgery
Welcome to yet another “A Dog’s Blog”
Wow! It’s been a while since I wrote to everyone and I hope that you don’ t mind my being scare – but I had my reasons… less than a month ago, I snuck under my backyard fence and I was struck by a car.
Yup – struck by a car – and lived to tell about it. I have to admit, I am hugely lucky considering my 17 pound weight compared to the ton and a half car (at least that’s what I’ve heard my parents say). Think about this – I get caught up in the back wheel when my sister yells my name after she sees the car about to hit me. So – like a deer in the headllights (sorry fellas), I freeze – and yup, the car runs over my foot and I take a trip around the wheel well.
Lots of blood, but I guess I’m okay enough to make it back under the fence, dragging my leg. And then it’s off to a series of vet trips. First overnight, then each day to get my bandages changed. Every day for about 10 days – but the pain was tremendous. I didn’t eat, didn’t play, didn’t do much of anything. Even had a morphine patch.
Finally, after 10 or 11 days, they said the best thing to do was to take off the leg since I now had an infection and it looked like I would not be able to keep the pad on my back left foot. I had already two of the toes.
My parents said yes, and they did it. They waited the weekend, and they did it. Just like that. They took the leg on a Monday afternoon.
I’ve lots more to tell you about next time.
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16
Feb
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Welcome to yet another “A Dog’s Blog”
OK – I”ll be the first to admit that when I first looked out into the backyard and saw all that snow coming down – I couldn’t wait to get outside. It was like someone had taken the entire ouside and put it in a snowglobe and shook the place up – big time. (I guess that’s whay they call them snowglobes).
Anyway, all that fluffy white stuff looked so good, I scratched and scratched until someone finally let me out into the artic tundra I call our neighborhood over the past few weeks. I flipped out, ran out, rolled out, and slid out into the big backyard and made my way to my favorite spots … but, they were all gone.
No problem – dig ‘em up right? I started to dig, and dig and dig and dig – and guess what – with 8 inch legs, it’s really hard to dig through two feet of snow. And it was suddenly cold out. And I suddenly couldn’t see very well because of the ‘blizzard’ condition. And I realized – big time – that maybe, just maybe – this snow looked much better from the inside.
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Welcome to yet another “A Dog’s Blog”