The ride home

The technicians went over so many details with us about the recovery over the next 12 weeks that my head is swimming. All I can remember is that for the next two weeks we are to keep him quiet. Cone on at all times, no walks and lots of medications. On day 5 we are supposed to start the at home exercises. I'll worry about that in 4 days. Right now I'm trying to keep him comfortable. He opted to go into his crate an hour ago and I took the cone off so he could get into it. However, I'm sitting here watching him to make sure he doesn't roll over and go after the staples in his leg. He's sound asleep and laying on his bad leg - so I think I'm safe as long as he doesn't JUMP up and switch sides. One of the best things that I did to prepare was to put rubberized rugs all over the first floor so he wouldn't slip on the wood floors. That's working very well. The other thing that I did was to make a "sling" to help lift his rear leg off the ground when he goes down one step to go outside to pee. They said that it isn't unusal for them not to poo for 5 days - so I'm not too concerned about that. When we got him home from the hospital, he must have had to pee every hour. He was given fluids over the night and they warned us that he'd have to go alot. They sent him home with Tramadol for pain - give to him for 7-14 days to keep him comfortable. Oh crap, I forgot to do the ice thing on him 2-3 times a day - I KNEW I'd forget something.