Beatrice had her surgery on tuesady morning.We brought her in early and left her for the night. The surgery was very succesful, I was mistaken it was only one broken bone, the larger of the 2 in the right front leg, just above the wrist joint.They put a metal plate on the bone and attached it with 3 screws at the top and 2 screws at the bottom.He showed us the x-rays of it after surgery...wow ! I said it would be like doing surgery on a chicken wing, she weighs only 3.1 lbs, she'll be 1 on October 7th.
They padded and bandaged her very well, underneath are the stiches. We have to bring her back 4 weeks from the date of the surgery to have the bandage removed and the stiches .At this time they will xray her again.Now she is on the morphine pils twice a day and the anti-inflamitory at night.
The hardest thing now is keep her from running and jumping, basically trying to keep her quiet. She must be feeling better, because she wants to play and she hasn't slept much today, yesterday she slept pretty much all day.
So basically I'm carrying her around as I do things and if I'm sitting down on the sofa or at the table she's on my lap, she's becoming quite clingy. Otherwise I put her in her xpen.I only leave the collar on her when we're both gone or at night when she's in her pen.So far she's been great about not licking or biting the bandage.
I will post in another week to let you all know how she's doing....so far...so good !
