Jade's Recovery Process

Jade came home from surgery last Wednesday and has been doing pretty well. She was stubborn the first day taking her medicine, which made it frustrating for mama to get her to take them. Good news from the vet is that I got to keep my tail and they did not have to do anything to my left leg for now unless I do something else to myself. It looks like most everything shifted back into place when they moved my right hip back into place.

The next day, mama gave me my medicine with wet food to make it easier to take than just swallowing it without anything. We have a good routine going now. I take my meds without any issues and I get to eat my yummy wet food mixed with kibble.

Jade is still not putting down the leg. Mama has been helping me but gently pulling it down while I'm eating to let me know that I can put my leg down. I just don't feel like I'm ready to put pressure on it. However, it's only the beginning of week two of the recovery process. It will just take me some time to get use to using my right back leg again. We still have another 7 weeks of recovery and physical therapy to get me back into walking properly. I feel like I'm doing better and able to get up and about. I want to just run around and be free but I know I should be resting per the vet's orders. I'm being stubborn and don't just want to lay around doing nothing anymore. These next few weeks are going to feel like torture not doing anything besides rest and limited mobility. Although, I know I will get better and be able to play with my little brother again!

Next week mama will be taking me to get my sutures removed.

I will update you more with my recovery process later.

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