Thanks everyone for their well wishes!
I picked up Madison at 4 PM and he's doing GREAT! They gave him some morphine for pain instead of the usual NSAID b/c of his tummy problem, and they were so sweet, one of the techs said they tried to brush some of the mats out of his hind end where it got messed up while they were doing the surgery.
He's already RUN outside to pee, and has run from one room to the other a couple of times when Max heard something and ran. He's still slightly unsteady....mainly his behind, LOL, but other than that, he's just taking it easy (in my lap at the moment, but we're going to go relax in the family room shortly and he'll lie down on the big bed I have for him on his new blankey
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They didn't even give him any antibiotics; they said he wouldn't need them, and no collar either! I thought he'd be ok b/c he was kind of just resting, but then I saw him licking (it might not have been the incision site, but I don't want to take any chances) so on went a "onesie", and he's happy as a clam
. He doesn't even have any external sutures~ they use a skin bond to close it up and you can hardly even tell! Well, other than he's got a little droopy sac back there, but I imagine that will contract eventually
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I am SO HAPPY it's over!!! He does not seem to be the least bit uncomfortable at this point.
Thanks so much again you all, it made it bearable!