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Thank you all for your kind words and support.  

So, we are day three since surgery (it seems so much longer....).  Ted is up, walking (hopping), can go unassisted up the two stairs from the family room to the kitchen and also up to the porch to get into the house after going outside (i don't let him go down on his own).  He has become my shadow again - good but also a bit precarious.  He can actually poop without assistance .. 🙂  He ate a big bowl of food tonight and last night he came upstairs and slept in the bedroom like he normally did before.  He is a happy camper.  I am a happy mom.  fingers crossed this continues...  

Eurydice,  thank you for your post.  You are probably wise to say that.  I do have his meds going on a regular basis and he is/has been tired after his little jaunts outside.  I will watch him and heed your advice.  Thanks so much.

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Thank you....  I am really making sure he doesn't over do it - and so far so good.  Last night he insisted on coming up the stairs to the bedroom to sleep with us so I helped him.  That's a done deal now - and that's okay, it makes him happy and he sleeps really well in our room.  

Now for the interesting part of my day.  My vet is great and she's told me to shoot pictures to her and she will call me if she has concerns, etc.  I shot her pics of Ted's incision this morning just to make sure I'm not crazy and all looks well.  She called and agreed that all looks well.  She also told me the pathology on his lymph node came back - completely negative of any metastazation (sp?).  Holy cow.  I'm thrilled but cautious about what that means?  She said we should continue with the periodic chest X-rays and watch his breathing, etc. but she was completely shocked too.  Wow. Today is a really good day.

Thank you for your post!  I'm pretty happy about the pathology report and am being cautiously optimistic.  Because of what I read on this site prior to his surgery, I declined the Fentanyl patch for Ted.  He had morphine prior to and I think during the surgery and our vet sent us home with a morphine syringe the first night (same day of surgery) along with Tramadol and Gabapentin.  He has done very well with the meds and I've been home with him all week so I've been able to get a really good rhythm going on the medley of drugs.  

I have been letting him decide what he wants to do and he's been pretty good at taking breaks.  He had surgery on Monday afternoon and didn't really sit up and start trying to get moving until Wednesday.  After he did that he really started moving.  He's doing two stairs up on his own (I won't allow him to do any down stairs on his own yet) we are taking him out in the yard and his his hopping around on his own and doesn't need help peeing or pooping and he wants to be with me (like he always normally has) wherever I am.  I have helped him upstairs into our bedroom where he normally sleeps for the past two nights - and he wants to do that.  I have been prepared to sleep on the couch to stay with him but he had other ideas!  I'm anticipating a wall, and if it happens we will deal with it.  For now, I think he's been doing a pretty good job of letting us know his limits.

I hope Milo continues to improve - he is adorable.

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