It is 7pm now (11 hours after he went in for the surgery) and we have been home for an hour. Bruno is resting quietly now. No matter how prepared you think that you are for this it is quite a shock none the less.

The surgery went well, there was a student and professor in the OR along with the primary surgeon which I was fine with. About 6 hours after he went in they gave him back with a good briefing for his home care.

The written report shows that they performed a scapulectomy and removed the auxillary and the prescapular lymph nodes.

The report states that they administered Acepromazine, Morphine and Carprofen, as well as a perioperative drip of Morphine, Lidocaine and Ketamine, prophylactic Cefazoline and did a nerve block with lidocaine.

He has a Fentanyl patch on his hip and they gave him a compression bandage with an active drain system. He still has a catheter in his front leg and another in his rear leg. The surgeon said that I can remove the catheters tomorrow as long as he is eating and drinking properly but so far he has not taken any water, still early I guess.

They gave me 10 days worth of meds and said that will be enough although I was asking for 2 weeks or more. He has Firocoxib to be given 227mg once daily for a week. He has Tramadol to be given 150mg twice daily with instructions to increase to 3 times daily if needed. He has Gabapentin to be given 300mg twice daily and Cephalexin to be given 1250mg twice daily.

Finger crossed that he has a peaceful night and will eat and drink in the morning.

He was good until about 5am when he started whining but would stopped when I pet him. I gave him water with a syringe as he was laying on his side and he was eager to drink. About 6am he was trying to sit up but it was awkward for him so I helped him and placed some small cushions behind him to help keep him upright. I gave him his antibiotics at this point and he drank from his bowl.

About 30 minutes later he was really moving around a lot in his bed so I gave him some canned food and his first dose of Gabapentin and Tramadol. I just removed his two catheters as he is definitely eating and drinking well on his own.

Thanks Sally.

I think that we are ahead of the pain meds as he is resting nicely now but I am not looking forward to tackling his wound dressing and drain tomorrow morning. He has a substantial compression dressing on the wound with an active drain system that I was not expecting but I have all of the necessary supplies so it should not be a problem once he is able to sit up and let me wrap his chest.

I have been taking photos for my family and friends but have not figured out how to post them on here yet. I don't have FB or IG or any other public photo hosting site so I guess that I will go figure out how to add them to my empty blog.

These are the week before the big day:

Here I am waiting for my CT scan at the Small Animal Teaching Hospital at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok

Daddy is making preparations for my recovery at home. He made me a little lawn on the balcony but I really am not interested in peeing on it.

So he tried Astro Turf....still not going to do it but I will catch some rays on it