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Originally Posted by LilMissy

I don't know how much more of this I can take. Poor Missy.

So it's been 7 weeks since Missy's leg surgery. The last few days I've been noticing that I can feel the head of the screw in her leg starting to stick out. She needed follow up xrays done anyways, so I called the surgeon and had him change the appt to yesterday. It seemed to me like the screw was coming out more and more each day since Friday. So yesterday they had to sedate her for the xrays. He said that the screw needs to come out immediately, so he scheduled her to be dropped off this morning. He was going to just take care of it yesterday while she was under sedation but she started to wake up, so he couldn't. I just got home from dropping her off there to get that screw removed and I'm crying my eyes out! I've been pretty strong through all of this medical stuff, but I'm starting to break down. Now, she will have to be sedated again today. Yesterday she was a mess for the entire evening from the sedation, and today she has to do it all over again. She was shakey, tired, weak...very clingy which is totally unlike Missy (she's not very snuggly). She gets very upset about having to go to the Animal Hospital now, so that makes it even harder. It's tough to leave her behind when she's crying and shaking. I'm doing my best to stay strong, but every time she goes through something like this I'm worried that she won't make it through. She's just so small, and this is now the 4th sedation in 6 weeks time. How much more can her little body take? The vet wants me to spay her soon on top of this all. I don't think that I can do it. I think that I just need to give this poor little girl 3-4 months to just be a dog and run around playing, not constantly cooped up in her ex-pen or in my lap. She needs to be confined to her pen for 3 more weeks.

Thanks for letting me vent. I'm just so upset and I needed to talk. I can't wait to get the phone call to go and pick her up today. As soon as I know that she's awake, I'll be happy.

I don't envy you at all, I hope you get good news soon from the vet and both can take a break from all this.