Perky puppy once again

Mystery illness solved and miss pug is back on her three and a half feet again!

She went for her weekly check-up at VOSM on Wednesday and I was a little worried that since she had done a 180 on using her leg that I might get a report that she wasn’t making good progress on her healing. Wrong. She’s doing great. But she does need to now push herself to use the leg to strengthen healing of the leg bones. The recommendation is that she up the pain meds so she feels more comfortable and wants to put pressure on her leg. We’ll use the Tramidol (1/4 tab as needed ) in the evening and (gulp) the Prevacox (1/2 tab once a day– notice how accurate I am on dosage and frequency of the medications?).

We’re done turning the bolts and stretching the bones. It wasn’t bad, I’m just glad it’s one less thing to tend to. Audrey’s new past time now that she’s feeling better is to lick and chew on her bandages. She’s not supposed to lick her wounds – where the pins go into her skin – and I sure didn’t want to keep in the Elizabethan collar. She hates it. I wrapped it in celophane and secured the wrap with a newspaper bag. I asked Lisa at VOSM what to do about it, and because we don’t need to access the bolts, she wrapped around both rings. It now looks like Audrey is wearing a very wide (4″) bracelet or stepped into a roll of pink tape. Only, Lisa decked her out in red tape with a big pink heart on it.

Not with the new wrap, but here’s Audrey and Alice watching TV:

So, what was the little girl’s problem last week? Dr. Canapp believes that it was a natural reaction to her healing from surgery, her body slowing her down from overdoing it the week before, and a reaction to a sudden stop in the Pevacox. She’s continuing on the antibiotic and now the pain pills. I’m glad we figured it out and I”m especially glad to have my practically perfect puppy back.

I also learned that our visits to VOSM will be weekly until the fixator comes off – probably til the end of March. Of course it makes sense but I didn’t know. Or how often xrays would be needed. At $105 per set, it will add a lot of the overall cost. She’ll need xrays about every two weeks from now on.  So we’re pretty close to $4,000 (so far). Best lets not think about the cost.

Just about the pleasure: