Charlie's Angel

Charlie is doing so much better!  She’s off all the meds and back to her old self.  It’s rare that she falls over…she runs around like crazy!  Today she yelped a bit when I tried to pull her back from going outside, so I think she still has some pain, but nothing like before.  I’m so happy she’s doing well and I just thought I should put a little update on here for all the people who might be interested in how she is doing.

She’s enjoying the outdoors and we will be going on another camping trip this sunday, so hopefully she does well with that.

Charlie is 3 days post-op and it almost seems as though she is depressed.  I didn’t think dogs formed a psychological attachment to their limbs like humans do.  Or are the meds making her apathetic?  She has laid around most of the day looking awfully sad.  I am starting to  doubt my decision to amputate her leg.  I know, logically, it was the best thing to do, but this is all so surreal and I feel bad about the whole thing. I’ve been reading a little on this site and other people have said it takes up to two weeks before they get back to their normal selves.  I hope she becomes the happy, playful dog she once was.  Physically she is doing great but emotionally she is a big sad sac 🙁

We went on a camping trip last week and our little Charlie jumped off the bed and broke her right foreleg.  At first I thought it might be dislocated but the X-ray showed it was a break…a bad one!  We drove 2.5 hours from where we were to the Ontario Veterinary College to have the break further assessed.  Once there we were told that repairing it would only provide us with a 50/50 success rate.  After much debating, crying and talking with our own veterinarian we decided to have Charlie’s leg amputated.

She stayed there for 3 days and we received daily updates on how she was doing.  I suppose with her only being one year old she bounced back quickly because when we picked her up today she ran to us!  She was so excited to see us and we smothered her with kisses!

She is still wrapped up in a thoracic bandage and on Tramadol, Metacam and an antibiotic but she seems comfortable and sets her own limits.  She’s sleeping in her crate as I type and I don’t think she can reach the bandage to bite it off and she hasn’t tried to so I have left the “collar” off her.

I’m just so glad to have her back 🙂

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