Atlas already has a pressure soar on his elbow that is bleeding. The hospital said he choose to lay on the concrete floor instead of the bed so it was pretty bad when we brought him home yesterday. We kept worrying cause we kept seeing the bloody spots on his bedding but we now know its from the pressure soar not the incision. I called our regular vet and he gave us some silvadine to apply. Trying to get it under control before it becomes chronic. Any tips?

Thanks again everyone for you valuable insight, it helped me to back off and let him find his way. Also, very good reminder about the dopey drugs. Atlas doesn't do we'll on pain meds, when he was on them a couple years ago after a cyst removal he became very wobbly but as soon as he was off them he regained his balance. Here's looking forward to a couple weeks when his true self can shine through!

Atlas is doing good today although a little more wobbly this morning. We can clearly see its the back right leg that has a mind of its own (wobblers) but Atlas doesn't let it get him down, he just perseveres and did another great poopy walk without incident and with harness assistance. He seems to do better once he gets warmed up and I think he'll do even better when off the pain meds. I picked up the food bowls and took them to the laundry room/doggie supply room which is only about 10 feet from his room and forgot to close the gate behind me and guess who's big ole head was poking in staring at me....come on mom, you finished yet, I'm hungry.....yep, Atlas had followed me without me even knowing and got down to business as usual...begging for food. After I fed them I had to go outside and let out this huge burst of tears. It was so comforting to have just the normalcy and for that moment there was no amputation, no cancer, just the normal feeding routine. You all were so right about the blessings we learn to cherish the moment. I'm getting better at it and so is worry-wart dad.
Karen thanks so much for the link to the elbow pad info - Marc researched last night the best one for Atlas. I have to share with you guys how amazing that Silvadine cream is.....in just 24 hours it has practically healed the elbow sore....granted we caught early, but that stuffs amazing! Now we just protect that elbow as best we can from future damage.
Patricia

Well shoot - I can't figure any of it out....looks like the pictures are too big - can only see half of them in blog- cant figure out copy and paste into post with iPad and I don't see a little tree icon. Ugh...sorry so computer impaired! Have to give up after an hour.