8-22-03: This morning, we called the vet to see what we should be continuing to give him. He said he was doing great yesterday and so he didn't load him up on a lot of pain meds because he appeared to be doing okay. He said to double up on the lower dose of deramaxx until he started feeling better. This morning, my husband gave him another valium and he doesn't want to eat (probably he's a little stoned yet). That was around 0800 hours. Right now, he's starting to cry again and everytime he tried to roll over to have his head upright, he screams. He won't take the deramaxx at all. I'm thinking he's uncomfortable and may has to go outside to pee, but we don't want him to still be groggy from the valium and hurt himself again. We did mention that there was a little swelling on the underneath side of the incision toward his tummy and the vet suggested a warm towel to take out some of that swelling. But it's not hot and his skin is cool. The vet said it would take a good 3 days for that large of an incision to close up so it's not oozing blood.
I think if he would just endure the momentary pain of getting up, and we could get him outside to potty, he might feel a lot better. But I don't know how to get him to do that and feel horrible for forcing him to do it before he's ready. But I'm gonna need 100 valium if he doesn't quit crying and moaning. Geez, why did Syd have to be the poster child for things that can go wrong afterwards. I don't think he's screaming in pain to try and get sympathy. He's a large dog and it was a very large incision, so I know he's in pain. Oh well, I moved my computer into the same small room where the ramp is. I just wish my husband would have taken him into the bigger room where the family room is so that we wouldn't have like 6 dogs including ourselves all crammed into a 8x8 space! I keep telling myself that it can't be much worse, so it just has to get better, right? Right?????? <sigh> |
