Caring for a Three Legged Dog or Cat

This weekend showed great improvement for Jack! The dead tissue fell off, the wound stopped oozing as much and it actually is shrinking up a bit! All good signs. We did the medicine regime as directed to keep him pretty chilled out and it helped. We had scheduled a check up today but have cancelled it because the vet said we are moving in the right direction and he doesn't want the car ride to aggravate the tissue. I have been sending daily pics for 10 days and will continue to do so until we go in next Monday.

Jack is in better spirits too. Eating a lot, looks at us and wags his tail and still demands attention! He looks like a bobble head with the cone of shame . We are leaving it on so he doesn't get to the wound and re-aggravate it. 

Despite being tired, we are encouraged! We all got more much needed sleep this weekend!

Jill

I haven't updated for several days because things have been going well. I thought I would wait til today, after Jack's suture removal.
Well, in true Jack fashion, things got crazy at the vet. He is still wearing the cone and when they tried to muzzle him, he sort of snapped. He was very irritated and anxious and the vet asked me if it was ok to give him light sedation that was fast acting. I agreed because I didn't want anyone else bit. Only took a few min to get him knocked out and they removed stitches, cleaned his cone and reapplied it. The vet even suggested loading him on a stretcher and taking him to the back of my suv and giving him the reversal agent there because Jack would be tired and he is a big boy and it would help us with movement. I agreed. Well that is when things went nuts. After the reversal, he woke up in a RAGE. He was barking, howling, growling, snapping at the air! He was clearly hallucinating. He crawled from the back of the SUV to the front passenger seat and wedged in with his body and cone. He was crazy for 15 minutes. He bit the leather interior off of my passenger door and plastic off the handle. The vet had to give him a small sedation dose to calm him down. Then we had to move him back to the back. It was nuts. He then was chilled out the entire 45 min ride home and we had to use an outdoor loveseat to put him on to get him out of the car.
The vet has never seen a reaction to the sedative like this. He inquired with me about Jack's previous behavior and if he was ever aggressive. I told him no, he never has been. He said he didn't want to scare me, but we need to watch for behavioral changes and aggressiveness that could possibly indicate mets to the brain. I am praying he has just had a rough few weeks and that isn't it.
I am hoping after ten more days of antibiotics that the wounds that developed will be gone. They are looking pretty good. We can take off the cone when they are gone.

Here is to a better week for my boy.