Okay so I got a bad case of the itchies yesterday and chewed into the stitches. Well I didn’t see what the big deal was and I was leaking drainage so I was cleaning it up. … but Mom got really irritated! She put an ace bandage on me and I pulled that off. Then she taped it on me and I managed to get that off by this morning when she was in the shower. Then she used the athletic tape on me… That I couldn’t chew off and I itched! So she drug me (or well I drug her, even with my three legs how can she just NOT keep up?) to the doctors office again. The Doctor bandaged my stump if he didn’t re-stitch it. He told mom I had “Only” chewed out half of my stitches and the hole wasn’t that big. Mom flipped out at dad later saying “Dude it was the size of a half dollar, if it’s that big and I can see inside it, it’s not a little hole.”
Good news is it’s draining in a good way, not puss or anything, so I’m healing good. Doc was very surprised by how well I am doing compared to what I looked like right before the amputation surgery. Mom forgot to put the baby gate on the stairs (SCORE!) and she apparently decided to nap so I decided to nap with her. So a tripawd or not, stairs still don’t phase me!
I made Daddy Happy though. He came home from work and decided to knock instead of just opening the door. I wasn’t sure it was him and I sure wasn’t just gonna let anyone in! He said I was a vicious killer… But… I didn’t kill anything I just yelled at him.
July 14th, 2012 at 9:46 pm
Hi Cocoa and welcome – i must have missed your earlier posts. Sounds like you are doing good if you went up the stairs and also yelled at the potential scary intruder!
(If you post in the forums, probably more folks will welcome you… the blog posts disappear off the main page kinda quickly and if folks don’t see it, they don’t know to say hi.)
Hope you continue to recover well! Would love to see some pics of you!
Jackie, Angel Abby’s mom
July 14th, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Hi Cocoa and family! I’m just catching up on your story here. Any word on the diagnosis yet? I hope it was just an infection and not cancer. And you’re a labradane? I can’t wait to see pictures! I bet you’re beautiful! Where do you live in Indiana? We live just a little north of Louisville KY along I-65. Do you live anywhere close? We’ve had that horrible heat wave too. But the last few days have been so lovely temp wise! Anyway, hope your recovery goes smoothly….and leave those stitches alone!
July 15th, 2012 at 12:05 am
Cocoa, you gotta be careful with those stitches! If you keep chewing on them, you’re gonna worry your Mom! But I’m glad to hear you’re doing so much better!