So, she is well on her way to mending. We’re still lugging her 60# self up and down stairs and up and down stairs but otherwise she is getting around pretty well. She is supposed to be confined to a space no more than five times her body length so she is restless to say the least. I took the dressing off and that is when we had to put the cone on as the licker then went to work. Below are better pictures of her fractures that the vet actually surprisingly emailed us. If you want to be grossed out more just click on the photo to enlarge.

So I went to the hospital in Omaha this evening to pick up Kalia. They all loved her, at least they acted like they did while I was there! After I settled the bill with the promise that they get to keep my first two children I got to see her. She whimpered for several minutes straight and was just so happy to see me.

Surprisingly she is walking really well. She has a big bulky dressing on that I can take off next week and we need to keep her corraled, no stairs, etc. She has a duragesic pain patch on that I am supposed to take off on Saturday and get this: the dose is 75mcg!!!!! For those of you that do not know, that would put me out for several several days. I’m thinkin’….no wonder the dog can walk she has no feeling what-so-ever! And, they tell me…”she’s eating soft food ok and hasn’t had any problems with her pills but is a little nauseated from the pain patch”. Hmmmm. Well, a piece of ham, a piece of cheese, a piece of bread and a can of puppy food later……I still had to jam her pills down her throat.

She is lying there whimpering and you can hear her stomach rolling and she is urping…yes, urping. I’m going to let her sleep tonite comfortably and the patch will have to go tomorrow. They gave me some pain pills to give her too so we’ll just have to switch. That is just what I need, an urpy dog that has to be forced fed, watered, etc when I can’t even remember the last time I actually was able to cook a meal for my own husband and myself!

Her little whimpering and sad little face do make me feel bad though. I am a schmuck owner for even allowing a situtation to occur where this happened. So, here we are way more money later than is legal for me to post on here and I have a hurt puppy that needs a lot of tlc and help for EIGHT WEEKS! Did I mention she can’t go up and down stairs ~oh~ and that we have A LOT of stairs in our home and out to the yard as well?!!!!