Rosie's Rose Garden – Life!

 

 

 

Rosie did it!  Here is my little girl upon seeing her for the first time she came walking (hopping) in the room with her blue baby in her mouth and a pretty scarf around her neck to hide her incission.   We picked her up on Friday March 19th, at noon.  She was so happy to see us.  She was full of energy we were so suprised to see her walking right in the room happy as can be.  What a relief.  We were very encouraged to see how well she could walk.  The picture of her with her doctors at the University of Florida Small Animal Hospital in Gainesville, Florida.  Dr. Sarah Lyles on the left of her was her Oncologist who monitored her Chemo so well, and her Surgeon, Dr. Nick Bacon immediately to the right of her did all three of her surgeries.  He did such a great job with the surgeries very neat and clean and straight cuts.  And to the far right was the Student assigned to take care of her – Cole Carter he fed her, walked her,  gave her all her meds while she was at the hospital  he was her Daddy  for a few days! They all did such a fabulous job taking care of her!!! We are so happy to have her at  home again.  She crashed last night when we got home, slept solid all evening and night.   But today she is doing really well.  She woke up happy and grabbed her baby and walked around with it in her mouth! 

We took her outside with the sling.  She attempted to walk down the fence line, which is quite a walk, but she tried to do her routine!!  Amazing.  She seems less painful than I thought.   I can tell her face is a lot less painful looking than before.  She’s just tired, but not a painful look.  Her pain is GONE!!!!  I can’t believeit!  What a relief this is for all of us to know she is not in pain anymore.  She is trying to figure out the one leg thing.  She breathes heavy, but as she gets used to it she will get stronger.   

She was on 16 pain pills a day!!  Now she only has 8 pain pill a day until Monday and then she will not have to take anymore pain pills!!!!  And she has antibiotics too, but after Monday no more pills!!! Except vitamins!  I can’t believe it.  That alone is such a relief.  This seems easier than before as we were giving her pills every time we turned around.  This has been much easier care than before.  And she was limping so bad before I had to watch her every step.  So this is actually not bad. I think the 2 weeks will go very well.  All that worry.  We hope she does well.  They said that usually dogs who have amputation do well at the hospital and show good signs and then when they go home they crash when they get in their own environment and get kind of depressed.  But she hasn’t done that yet.  

We’ll keep you posted.  But the Little Girl has her life back! And we’re so proud of her for all she went thru. 

Rosie’s Mom – Relieved!