Abbey The Great

Post-Surgery4

Abbey has been home for four days (five days post-surgery) and she is going AMAZING!!!!  Thank you all for your support and words of wisdom…it really helped 🙂  She doesn’t even notice that she’s down to three legs!  The very first morning back she was using the stairs (three of them) by herself to go to the bathroom on her own.  I’m sure it helped a lot that she had some “practice” at this (for the past two months she has only been using three legs…the third, “dead” leg was useless).  I’m so proud of her at how she came through this with shining colors and couldn’t have a care in the world.  My husband and I can’t stop telling each other how amazed we are at how “normal” she is already, at how well she is getting around all on her own.  There’s no stopping this girl!

I had posted previously that I was nervous about how I would react when I first saw her at the hospital and I shocked myself…the missing limb did not bother me.  I was so happy to see her and bring her home (and thrilled that she was ok, of course) that I did not even care about the missing leg and the pretty gnarly scar/staples she she was rocking.  Maybe it’s because I had a few months to come to terms with the fact the she’d never been a four-legged dog ever again; maybe it’s because I saw how ok she was with the whole situation that I knew I should be ok with it too; whatever the reason, I am at peace with the situation.  Of course it’s not what I wanted for her, nobody wants this, but after what we’ve ben through the past few months, I am so happy that the amputation is over with and that life is returning to normal for her 🙂  She’s doing so well that I hope to bring her (and her little sister) to see Santa this weekend…she hasn’t missed a photo-op with Santa in her life!

Again, thank you all for your kind words and support 🙂

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