Two weeks post op ...YEAH!

Alright so not a lot of posts this past week but we have made it to two weeks post op!!! Molly did well with her compression dressing last weekend (her pink/red leg). The dressing did slide down but we were able to leave it on until Sunday night. At first because the dressing slid below the seroma it didn't look like it help much. Then the next morning on Monday the swelling was down a lot! The leg looked great.


Our vet called to check on Molly Monday morning and wanted us to come in and have her seen. Dr. Gallagher was pleased with the decrease in swelling in her leg and we were too.


Molly continues to put weight on her leg. We have to make sure when she is out of her kennel that we keep her on a leash. She is an 18 month old dog that wants to just 'take off' sometimes. Her fur has grown back a lot as well.



The challenges have been her taking her medications now. She used to take them no problem coated in peanut butter...now she it spitting the back out after she gets all the peanut butter off. What is up with that:) She has finished the antibiotic and it now on anti inflammatory, pain medication and joint supplement. It was funny this morning she sat there and let me give her the joint supplement, the anti inflammatory but then got scared of the two little white pills (pain med) and turned away from me. Ummm time to get the hot dogs and try that trick.



Oh and Molly knows that we can let her out of her kennel if we sit there with her and hold her leash...so the whining of wanting to get out of the kennel has increased. We just don't trust to let her roam yet...she will try to run up the stairs and jump on the furniture.



We will go to the vet today and Molly will get her staples out. We will get more instructions on exercises for Molly. We have continued her ROM exercises and she is doing great with that.


Here are some week 2 (day 14) pictures: