Sadie had surgery on Friday the day after Thanksgiving to repair a ruptured ACL in her back left leg. We brought her home Saturday. This was an extensive surgery, they cute her bone and then repositioned it and secured it with a metal plate. She is doing OK. She was whining a lot last night so we had to keep her pretty medicated on pain medicine. Matt and I slept in the living room so we could hear her if she started whining, we didn't really sleep. I think I had 1 eye on her all night! We are having to take her outside on a leash and with a sling under her belly to prevent her from putting weight on her bad leg and injuring her good leg. She does not care for the sling as you can imagine. She has yet to go to the bathroom out side but instead she has been peeing while she sleeps, so i changed her bed about 4 times last night (hopefully it is because of all the pain meds and not for any other reason). Luckily after the first time I put a mattress protector over her bed, then covered it with a sheet to prevent her bed from getting wet. Thank goodness we have 2beds for her!
Wish us luck, she has to be contained in a 4x4 gated area for 8 weeks. We have to use the sling for about 2 weeks. No activity for 8 weeks and then very limited for 4 weeks after that. We are looking at about a 12 week recovery period, UGH!
Good thing I am not working I don't know what we would do if I was. I was more worried about the recovery then he was, I had a feeling it was going to be difficult.
We are feeling really bad about all the pain she is in, but we also know that it was the only way to fix it. She was not going to get better with out it. Thankfully it was something that was fixable.
Until she is COMPLETELY healed, she will be COMPLETELY spoiled!!!!
Her gated area she will be in for 8 weeks.
You can see her leg and all the bruising. The incision is on the side of her leg that is against her belly. Looks so painful!
Poor girl!
The night before surgery, cuddleing with Matt! She had no idea what the next day would intail :(
