Butch is really frustrated with his lampshade, and really wants to go at those itchy stitches, but alas we cannot have any of that so lampshade it is. When I am not doing anything distracting like writing a post :) , I have been taking the lampshade off, and watching him. He has gotten so he will forget about it for a minute, then all the sudden, he lunges for the stitches, and I have to lunge for him, or make a loud distracting noise. He has gotten a little irritated at these tactics, and has started growling at me every time I tell him not to bother his stitches. If I did not feel so bad for him, this would be extremely amusing. I am sure it will be one of those things that I can laugh at in a few weeks, but right now I feel too bad for forcing him to wear a lampshade! He has such a hard time figuring out how to see, and walk with it on, I have a short video of how he has not quite got it. Sorry about the wigglyness of the camera...I am not too good at keeping her steady! He has learned to walk pretty good with it on hard surfaces, but take him out on the grass, and he does head dives, then steps on it, and falls over. We now take it off before he goes outside, and just go out with him!
Friday, January 9, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Rough Night
Once again, poor Butch.
I feel so bad for the little fella. Landon picked me up from the airport around 11:30 last night, and had no choice but to bring Butch along since he was still all drugged out. It seemed that the jostling of the road was hurting him, because he started to whimper, and moan. It is so hard to hear him make noises that mean he is in pain, and there is nothing that we can do.
Butch is a dog that sleeps with us in our bed.
Circumstances as they are, we had to make a bed for him on the floor since he is still wobbly, and has that giant lamp shade around his head. We did not want to jostle him while we slept.
We finally got to bed around 2:00 , and about 3:30 Butch woke me up with his whine, and I did not know how to help him.
So I gave him some water, and then I guessed that he did not know what to do not sleeping with us, since he always has.
I made up a little bed for myself on the floor next to him, so I could give him some comfort since I did not know if the pain meds were wearing off, but I did know that we could not give him more until the morning.
So I slept on the floor. And not 5 minutes after I got settled, he wobbled over, and laid down beside me, turned out, he just wanted the warmth and comfort. Poor little guy.
The doctors told us that the surgery went well. They had to make the groove in his leg bone deeper, and said that there was quite a bit of wear and tear on the ligament, so they expected down the road that he will develop arthritis in that leg. I feel bad that we did not catch it until now since that meant that this had been going on for sometime.
I feel so bad for the little fella. Landon picked me up from the airport around 11:30 last night, and had no choice but to bring Butch along since he was still all drugged out. It seemed that the jostling of the road was hurting him, because he started to whimper, and moan. It is so hard to hear him make noises that mean he is in pain, and there is nothing that we can do.
Butch is a dog that sleeps with us in our bed.
Circumstances as they are, we had to make a bed for him on the floor since he is still wobbly, and has that giant lamp shade around his head. We did not want to jostle him while we slept.
We finally got to bed around 2:00 , and about 3:30 Butch woke me up with his whine, and I did not know how to help him.
So I gave him some water, and then I guessed that he did not know what to do not sleeping with us, since he always has.
I made up a little bed for myself on the floor next to him, so I could give him some comfort since I did not know if the pain meds were wearing off, but I did know that we could not give him more until the morning.
So I slept on the floor. And not 5 minutes after I got settled, he wobbled over, and laid down beside me, turned out, he just wanted the warmth and comfort. Poor little guy.
The doctors told us that the surgery went well. They had to make the groove in his leg bone deeper, and said that there was quite a bit of wear and tear on the ligament, so they expected down the road that he will develop arthritis in that leg. I feel bad that we did not catch it until now since that meant that this had been going on for sometime.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Happenings of 2009 Already
When I have not been at my Parents house during this vacation that I took to support my brother at his wedding, I have been at my sister’s home with her 4 children.
I have enjoyed so much being able to spend time with my nieces and nephews and with my sisters and brothers. I know that I said this in my last post, but I do miss being close to my family, so when I do have a week or so to spend time with them, I try to make the most of it.
My brother’s wedding was beautiful, and his bride outshone everything. It was a very nice wedding, and reception, which they put together without very much help from anyone.
They planned most everything, and did a very good job.
I hope only the best for these two as they embark on their lives together. I know that they will have struggles just like the rest of us had, and continue to overcome, I only hope and pray that they can get together to figure out how to stay together!
They are a very cute set, and it is so good to see my brother so incredibly happy.
Now onto another topic...life.
Landon plays tonight, and still has to make it home by 7am to get Butch to the doctor to have his surgery. I am very nervous about this as my little wee dog is like my child, and it is a surgery. So I am freaking out! :) But I am sure that everything will go well, and my little tripod fella will be a tripod hurting fella with a lampshade on his head for a while until the stitches can come out. In the meantime, Butch is going to be left home during the day by himself while I go to work, and Landon goes off to play.
I was hoping that Landon would have a week or so where he was not working quite so much, because I would have felt so much better if someone could stay home with him for his first week after the surgery, but alas, he feels he need to go play, and bring home some bacon. I cannot take off either since I have just had a whole week off. So until he can get up and around this will be fine, but the vet said in a week or so when he needs to start his physical therapy I will probably need to come home from work during lunch to get him up out of his kennel, and walk around to get the leg working again. This is going to be tight as it takes about 35 minutes to get home from work without traffic. And it will be during lunch when there will be some traffic, so I hope that I can do it. I sure do wish that Landon was home….oh well.
Here is to the first test of the New Year to see how we handle small hardships!
I hope we pass!
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