Day 9 – Slow progress is still progress

We’ve gotten past the one week mark!  Although there is still quite a bit of resting going on, Sadie’s normal personality is beginning to return in small spurts.  She’s moving around the living room quite a bit more now … beginning to follow my every step again.  Her incision has quit leaking fluid/blood, so that’s one less thing to worry about.  She did have quite a bit of fluid build up earlier in the week … but I’m happy to report that the fluid seems to have all gone down.  We’ve made an appointment to get her staples out on Thursday, which I’m looking forward to!  If nothing else, once those are gone I’ll feel more confident about helping her up/down the stairs … which means I can leave my nights of sleeping on the couch next to her behind and return to my bed!

Our potty breaks still require quite a bit of support from the towel sling.  She seems to be strong on the trip out, but starts relying on the sling to hold up her weight more and more on the trip back in.  She just seems to tire quickly.  I’m hoping that her age, those few extra pounds (we’re working on that!) and her lack of endurance prior to surgery (she had gotten a little lazy in her old age) doesn’t hinder her recovery too much … but I do think it’ll have an effect on the time it takes for her to get back to being able to move around as much as she used to.  We have some balance to work on and some strength to build … which we’ll start on once those staples come out.  I look forward to the day we can take short walks around the neighborhood again.