Time to celebrate! On the night of Day 7, when I put her down outside, instead of making herself as flat as possible on the grass and then standing up right there to relieve herself, she three-legged-ran across the lawn to pee, did #2, and then did the little backing up marking the grass with the paws thing. I almost cried I was so glad! Then she slept from 1:30-6:30, not waking up for her 4:00 pain meds. She's definitely starting to feel better. She is a bit constipated from the pain meds, but a little canned pumpkin should fix that pretty quickly.
In the morning, when she saw me packing up the bags to head to the mountains, she got all excited, ran through the house, out the front door, and onto the lawn (all three legged of course). What she didn't realize was that I was dropping her off at the vet's for the day. She actually did really well there too! She didn't even cry when I dropped her off, and when I picked her up, she was scrambling all over the place, trying to jump off of the seat to run out the door. Dr. Bagley walked in with his cute little daughter. He wasn't working, just dropping in for a second. At first when he saw me he was worried that something had gone wrong, but then when I told him I was just there to pick her up, he agreed to look at her really quickly just to make sure everything looked good. It did. He's such a great vet! I could seriously do a commercial for him.
I got her home and she went to the water and had a nice long drink. Then she went to the back door. I was SO glad! Took her outside, and once again, she ran across the grass to go. Yay!!! The only thing is, after she's done, she lays down and waits for me to go get her. Normally not a problem, but in the dark, with no shoes and little poopy landmines everywhere? Not so good. Fortunately we made it back with no incidents. She went to sleep in her crate on my bed and slept ALL NIGHT LONG. 11:00-8:00. She didn't even wake up for pain meds.
I'm so glad to be out of the serious pain stage and into the rehab stage I could just do a happy dance. It's a good day.
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