Gnasher Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Excellent news - hope she is home soon enjoying her spoiling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clare Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Just checking in, hope Flora had a comfy night and is ready to come home today :flowers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtychicken Posted April 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 (edited) really pleased she had such a successful op and will be coming home today , how long before she is back to normal ( or better than normal really ) She'll be on 6 weeks of solid crate rest with onlead and assisted toilet breaks initially, then follow up x-rays, then another 8 weeks of crate rest with 3-5 x 5 minute onlead walks a day, then another follow up. At that point she gets totally reassessed to see what the next part of the plan is So we have another 14 weeks before we get anywhere near "normality" but I'm looking forward to having a dog that I've never had because she's had pain to some degree or another for as long as I've had her which may well explain why she has sometimes been a bit picky about which dogs she likes and which she doesn't. Just checking in, hope Flora had a comfy night and is ready to come home today :flowers: I called earlier but all of the consultants are with clients, so I'm waiting on a call back. They did say "lunchtime" but that's a fairly wide scope and besides, I was ready for my lunch at 9.30 today Edited April 9, 2009 by dirtychicken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddyboy Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 assisted toilet breaks initially, Oh the picture that phrase conjures up!!!! Bedpans for dogs! Please make sure it is ultra soft loo paper for her little bottie. (I do know what you mean really!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurel n Hardy Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 woooooooooooooooo great news so pleased for you and for gorgeous Flora too just a few things to show and express how I feel and not forgetting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne Grose Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Is she home yet??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantan Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Is she home yet??? Yes is she, is she Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celeste Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Perhaps she's being picked up now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherlock Bones Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I is reliably informed she is home.. and pics are en route. (MRS HEN HURRY UP) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackmagic Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Oohhhhhh yes, hurry up. Her public are waiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtychicken Posted April 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 The photos that I've been waiting to post for sooooooooooooooooo long My brain has been running in parallel lines again for the last few days and I was fully aware that she should only be feeling post-op surgery pain and not the awful gnawing hip pain that she's been putting up with for so long, but I was also thinking that she'd be struggling to walk when we collected her so prepared with a sling and a blanket to carry her in (she's not allowed to "do" steps for the next 8 weeks and we have a few steep ones leading up to the house). I wasn't quite prepared to be dragged out of the hospital by my beautiful steam train She managed to bleed all over the room as we were talking to the vet because she was *so* excited that she sent her blood pressure sky high and squirted blood out of the hole left from her canula We had an uneventful trip home (and a much slower one than we had going out there ) as she led in the back with her head on Sophie's lap and she is now in her crate snoozing and snoring Time for Mummy to have a little relieved now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonny Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 So glad that she is home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abby Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Yay Good to hear the Floradozer spirit is alive and kicking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherlock Bones Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 She can walk ALREADY?! Wow brilliant!!!! (she looks more like the dirtychicken than you now with that baldy chicken leg ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddyboy Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I was expecting a massive wound (having seen a human hip replacement) but that looks fairly compact!! Have you got calomine or lavender oil or similar to dilute for when the hair starts to grow back and itches (sorry, I know you have enough stuff to stock Boots, Superdrug and then entire Holland & Barratt chain).... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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