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| Beagle147 (profile) wrote, on 4-26-2005 at 10:11pm | |
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| Sasha had her surgery today. I know that's a good thing, because she hadnt been using her leg, and it was beginning to lose muscle mass, but still.. She's in really bad shape right now. She cried the whole way home from the vet. She was still very much under the anesthesia, but I'm not sure how much pain medicine they gave her. I'm giving her stuff at home, but I dont know that it's enough. She has tons of trouble getting around, and she cries a lot. She can't lie still for too long, but she can't really get up. Her whole back left leg is shaved, as well as about 3 inches on each of her front legs for the IV. And she has a pretty large incision with staples. It's pretty much exactly how it was before, except her back wasn't shaved for the pain patch. I told the vet this morning to have her microchipped, but she wasn't. Oh well. Dr. Boss asked if I wanted it done right then, but I told him no. She looked so miserable, I wasn't about to have them give her another shot on top of it. It just makes me so upset to see her in this much pain. She's like a child. But there's nothing I can do for her. Sometimes she lies down on the wrong side and really gets a lot of pain, but she has such trouble getting up, she'll sit there for a few minutes, lying on her injured leg, until she can gather enough strength to get up to lie on her other side. She's finally pretty sound asleep. There's no way I'm going to wake her up to go to bed, she can sleep in the family room tonight. She gets her staples out next friday afternoon, and then after that I have to start doing physical therapy with her. I really hate that we don't have a pool, because that would be the best thing for her. And they closed the dog beach. There's nowhere she can swim. : ( She will get better though. It will be a few weeks, but she'll be in less pain than she was before, even though she's in so much pain now. It's a normal reaction to the surgery, keeping in mind that they sawed off part of her bone, it's just tough to watch, knowing that I can't really do anything to help her. |
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SeraphimRhapsody | 05-02-05 11:18pm :*( Sasha.....
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