Thanks everyone .

The vet called with an update, Meg is awake, ate some chicken and is accepting cuddles with a tail wag. They tried to turn her IV drip down because she's been doing so well, but she didn't like that too much. They're pretty adamant she needs to stay overnight. I still don't want her there alone, it just seems too risky. We'll go to the vets in about two hours, see how she is doing and weigh up if we take her home, or see if we can afford the 24hr vet.

A man at the dog park freaked us out with costs, but I presume his experience would've included an emergency consultation, 6 more hours staying there and weekend prices. Fingers crossed it isn't too bad! 

Surely there is an alternative to the IV.

UPDATE

Good news first - we were very impressed with how Meg is. She is doing very well, has already been up and about, went outside for a wee etc. We spent a good hour with her at the vets while they were closing up before taking her to the 24hr vets. She still needed her IV and we were feeling a little intimidated by the wound so weren't keen to take her home tonight. 

She wanted to jump out of her kennel and be with us! So we're thrilled about Meg .

The bad/stressful news. We are very disappointed with our vet clinic (understatement). Once we had decided we'd take her to the 24hr clinic, our vet (the original vet who was meant to do the surgery) called the 24hr place saying we were coming in, that it would cost $350, and that he would email all her history's. We arrive at the 24hr place, they have no idea who we are, didn't receive any history. 20 minutes of waiting and we were stressed the IV meds were wearing off. At least the vet had spoken to our vet and verbally knew what was happening, the email never came through. Overnight cost was actually $500, which is annoying to be underquoted, but our vet said it could be more, so that's ok. However, our vet was meant to send the drugs meg needs with us, so we had to A) switch her onto cheaper but equally effective drugs and B) pay for them ourselves. You better hope our vets willing to assist with that given they forgot to give us the drugs / didn't mention we'd have to pay! 

The main thing is meg is being looked after tonight, and I'd pay anything for that but geez, very angry at our vets for all the miscommunication! 

Thanks Amy and Izzy! 

I'm so relieved that Meg is doing ok, everyone seemed very impressed with her recovery! She even managed to balance on the super slippery vet table at the 24hr place. 

She had bandages over the wound so we haven't even seen the scar yet! Even that was scary for me, going to take a bit of toughening up to cope with the actual wound. Might have to buy some suggested clothing! It is all seeming very real now, the long days dealing with pain, massaging the wound and keeping her body right. Oh boy, here we go with recovery! All worth it to get Meg healthy, and all her achievements are going to leave me very proud which outweighs all the fear. 

Feeling very exhausted emotionally now, was a stressful lead up and a big day! Went to flop on the couch and saw Meg's footprints in the material, and that is what (nearly) made me cry. Trying to keep it all in until I get to bed, then I'll have a giant sook. 

Stay well tonight Meg, see you tomorrow! Will update everyone tomorrow, probably with a new recovery thread or on the blog!