PAPILLON PIPPIN(from Baltimore, Maryland)

Day 5 Post Surgery

Pippin peed twice today.   That’s a first since she broke her leg 3 1/2 weeks ago.  Ate only a few tiny pieces of boiled chicken.  She wouldn’t eat it until I put some chicken broth on it.  I can only get her to eat when we get up because that is when she is the least dopey and due for meds.  She walked a few steps today too on the bedroom carpet when I got her out of her kennel this morning.  Uses her hips more today.  Overnight the cyst like spot that developed yesterday started oozing so I made an appt. and saw the vet tonight.  He said it was probably a reaction to the sutures or rubbing.  It didn’t seem infected.  We are to put some warm compresses on it twice a day and some peroxide.  She got her pain patch removed today as well.  Didn’t mind getting the staples out.  Found out today also that her tumor that we had removed during her amputation was a benign fatty tumor.  Thank goodness!  Was so worried over that.  That incision is healing well.

We went and got her a new elizabethan collar at Petco.  It’s a blow up ring.  So much better than the cone.  She can move her neck more and feels a lot more comfortable in it.  Although she didn’t seem to mind the cone, this one is much much better.  I highly recommend it especially for small dogs.  Plus I don’t have to worry about it getting caught in her kennel like I did with the cone.  It also helps a lot when I give her the laxative.  She can’t move her head as fast and all over the place with the ring on so the laxative gets in her mouth and not all over her hair so much now.  Before I had to remove the cone to give her the laxative.

I ordered her some traction socks and boots as well as Cosequin (joint supplement) and Welacton (Fish oil).  Glad to see that the Cosequin is in soft chewables so hopefully she will like it as a treat.  She is really tired of me shoving pills down her throat twice a day.

Pippin also wagged her tail today for the first time.  When I got her out of her kennel this morning and when Mike (hubby) came home.  Even though I’m laid off, I’m so happy I can spend almost 24/7 with her for her recovery.  Worst part is me trying to get some sleep because I worry about her so much.  I think that will get better though because she is healing well.  Just worried about that one spot, but it doesn’t seem that bad.

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