Day 2: still in hospital

Day 2 and duchess is doing FANTASTIC!

She is a hospital favorite. The nurses love her to bits. She is able to stand and walk almost unassisted (but they help anyways cuz that’s their job). Having trouble laying down “gracefully” so we will help with that when she comes home. She is eating well. She is still wetting the bed and they feel that it’s not medical but more of a discomfort in peeing in front of people (she has been known to be shy about that stuff even at home). Since she has been eating she hasn’t gone #2 yet but they won’t be concerned until the 48hr mark of no poops so still all good.

Tomorrow is the day! We will pick her up in the evening. She has been a champion. We haven’t seen “the wound” yet as all pictures have been covered so I asked tomorrow if they change the bandage to please send a picture so we can prepare ourselves.

Out of surgery

Our girl is out of surgery! All went well, some blood loss but nothing of concern. She will be monitored til at least tomorrow & we will see how she’s doing. I will be receiving a photo tomorrow from the amazing nurse taking care of her. Although the stress of surgery is over I still worry for complications. I really hope my girl does well on 3 legs

WE ARE OFFICIALLY A TRIPAWD FAMILY. Thank you all for support and will keep updating tomorrow

And off she goes to surgery

7:40am we send off our girl to change her life forever. Although this is a good thing for her pain I still feel sad that we are changing her life so drastically. She was definitely anxious last night as if she knew something was happening, she didn’t wanna lay down to sleep without me sitting next to her. I trust this vet team she’s in the best possible hands to take care of this. They will call me as soon as she’s out and update me throughout her time admitted. Fingers crossed

Introducing; “grandma??”

This is Kim, my (Caitlin) mom. She has helped me with Duchess since day 1 when I lived under her roof with a crazy, fast growing pup, to now when she’s in the most need. She loves Duchess as a family dog even tho she was going back and fourth between Milton and her home in Toronto. Our family dogs Buddy and Daisy were around until Duchess was 2 (Buddy passed at 13.5) and recently before Christmas Daisy crossed the rainbow bridge. My mom has been very emotional through losing Daisy very suddenly (even tho she was almost 15) and the idea of amputation was much harder for her to process. It took some time but she now sees it is our best option to get as much time as possible with our girl. She has been housing Duchess since she was a pup, and now is willing to keep her until she is mobile enough to come back to our home in Milton whether that be weeks or months from now. We are grateful for that.