Thanks for the welcome Jerry and Benny55!

She came through the surgery but she was very infected. So they had to remove all her fat under there. Luckily the infection doesn't seem to have gone any further. 

I had the option of picking her up last night but I asked the surgeon what she would do if it was her baby and she said keep her in the ICU to make sure all is well.

I'm to call at 10 am to check in and see if she's ready for discharge. There were no calls in the night so no news is good news. We will stay up here at the lake so that she can rest (without a busy city house of people and a big puppy jumping all over). I need a break too!!

She probably should have been sent home with antibiotics after the amputation surgery and had a drainage tube... And when I brought her to my vet on Friday, they should have said take her to the ER now. It's so hard to trust what the vet says when your gut is screaming 😱😱😱 at you!!

But the Emergency surgeon says she got it all out and Lily was on IV antibiotics all day yesterday which for sure should help.

They did take a sample which will be picked up by the lab today, will know if she has something resistant by the end of the week. We are up in a rural area at our lake home so things move a bit slower than in the big city. I can't remember if our vet took a sample on Friday. Hopefully they did so that we might have results earlier.

How did she get to three legs? Up here at the resort there are plenty of open spaces for the dogs to walk. We have a 10 month old Border Collie too and he loves to play catch, so Lily and I joined my husband and the puppy in a field. Lily wanted to sniff around so I made the stupid mistake of letting go of the leash so she could wander a bit away from me. She walked into some tall grass and then the grass stopped moving. She had found a groundhog hole and she lost her mind and went straight in and down. Yorkie owners will understand that crazy bred in the bone hunting instinct. She has it bad.

Now the rest is a blur. We tried to call her out, she's barking and I couldn't tell if it was her excited hunting bark or "I've encountered a furry creature and we're fighting" bark as it was muffled because she's down the bleaming hole. Either way I wanted her out asap. We tried to pull her back out slowly with the bit of leash we could reach. I could feel her pulling against us because of course she HAD to find the furry creature!!! Then it felt like it was just stuck and then suddenly I've got a leash and harness in my hand but no dog attached. The harness broke. I don't even remember how my husband managed to dig her out of there. She was limping when she was out but still excited and wanting to go back in, hopping around on three legs. We thought maybe it was just pulled out of a socket. Any hoo, rush to her ER, scans show a clean break right across the shoulder in a way that many surgeons were not interested in trying to repair or yes, huge bill but "she'll have to walk very little on it for the rest of her life and may still be painful".

She was moving around well (probably too well) with her bandage on while I continued my search for a surgeon. And finally we discussed it and decided that amputation would be the better option to get her back to a new normal with less pain, etc.. Our local vet was able to find a surgeon to do the amputation... And that's how we got to here.

 Oh and Jerry... Re the breast pads, they have sticky strips on the back (to stick on the inside of the bra) so I was able to stick the pads to the strips of soft fabric I used as a cover. The shape was perfect as it's not flat (concave or convex, can't remember my grade 9 science LOL) so it wasn't pressed right against the wound to let air flow in and out.

They are a lot cheaper than a small box of gauze pads! $8 for 10 gauze pads vs $12 for 60 pads. And much more absorbent!!!

Ill let you all know how she does when I finally get her home! Meanwhile I'm going to read more! Thank you for the links and the support!!

Thanks so much! I will see if I have any photos of my quick "bandage". I make dolls so I just grabbed some fabric from the bin and my pinking shears and cut some strips.

Lily is now back home. She's acting more like herself. She asked to go out and I carried her to her favourite spot and she went pee right away. 

Without the cone she is very steady on her feet. Our regular vet will change her bandage tomorrow. I will ask her if we can opt for a bandage or t-shirt cover (as was suggested in one of the links from Jerry) instead of the cone so she can move easier. I might sew her a shirt with a pocket for the breast pads more for a cushion in case she bumps herself.

I will learn the images soon I promise! Going to have a nap and cuddle with my baby!!

I lied, I had to learn. Hopefully I did this right for Instagram.

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Hello all! New "pupdate"!!

Lily had her drain out yesterday and all looks great. The vet and all the staff are super happy to see her doing well. Also the lab results came back and the infection was not via a resistant strain. So the current meds should show any last bit of bacteria who's boss!

She's wanting to go for walks again and although she's getting her sea legs I'm holding her back from too much.

So fingers crossed we are going to have no more issues.

I went thrift shopping today and picked up some baby clothes to try on her. Got her this cute 3-6 month old onesie. I will sew up the one side and cut the bottom, adding some elastic around her belly.

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Thanks for all of your encouragement and advice!