A Long 24 hours
Well Ryder has been home for a little over 24 hours now and boy have the been eventful. For starters he came home with NO pain medicine, yup you read that right. I asked the vet and he said Ryder has been doing very well and he really isn’t in any pain and he expects him to bounce back very quickly. So quickly that in fact the morning after surgery he was up walking around and eating and acted as if he was born a tripawd. The morning I picked him up I was informed that when we went to breakfast there was no walking him in fact he dragged the lady that attempted to walk him …yup that’s my rambunctious puppy. Until I did some reading and got some advice from my fellow pawrents I didn’t know that it was abnormal to come home without the pain medicine so for us we didn’t really know any better. Latter that day I noticed he was breathing funny in fact he reminded me of a dog in labor going through contractions. Yup you guessed it I called the vet for answers right away. Well they said to watch him and if it continued to bring him in, happily I can report it only lasted about 10 mins. Latter on in the evening he decide to have some serious panting going on and when I say serious it was as if he ran a mile when in fact he had been laying on the couch next to me the whole time. Since the vet was closed I called the emergency hospital that we took him to before, they suggested taking temp(which was normal) and I could either bring him in and they would check him over or just keep a close eye on him and call vet in the morning. Well the only thing going through my mind is that my poor baby is in pain and I have no way of making it go away, this is the worst feeling ever by the way. So I monitored him for a bit and was actually able to calm him down and somehow we made it through the night, a little sleep deprived in my case but we got through it. By morning he was up doing better ate his breakfast and I thought well today is a new day so we will see what happens. Ryder took a little nap and when he woke up oh boy another issue. He started vomiting so I called the vet and back we went. On a good note he wasn’t in any pain still as the doc was able to touch his incision without even a flinch from him he didn’t even stop wagging his tail. Well we came home a short time later after getting a shot for vomiting, a shot for diarrhea and finally some pain medicine for home. The vet says he is having a tummy issue possibly intestinal but nothing to be concerned with. So I sit here wondering tummy issues really hello last time I checked you took his leg not anything in his tummy so immediately I think the worse. I worry there is another issue from the accident that we missed or something cause you know it just couldn’t be the fact that his incision goes along his tummy instead of the typical one(from the neck down)I see in most pictures. Or maybe the lack of sleep is effecting my judgement either way he is no longer vomiting and we are hoping for a much better 24 hours to come.
what a rough night!!! sometimes the surgery and such can do a ‘wack’ to their systems, especially a pup who is so active. we’re guessing you got a shot of cerenia? that works pretty well. probably the best thing for ryder is some quiet confinement (although that’s not what he’d want) so he can heal and get back to his new normal. there’s a reason they call the first two weeks ‘hell weeks’, someone always goes without getting much sleep… when he naps, try to catch a medicinal nap yourself. it does get better, and you will be amazed at what your little tripawd boy has to teach all of you! good luck.
charon & spirit gayle