Aww I'm so glad he's getting around so well.  The thought of going up and down the steps so soon is impressive, as is the jumping up on the couch.  I'd love for Mac to be able to jump up on the bed again but I guess I'll have to see if he'll ever be able to do that.  The only flight of stairs we have is our basement one that up until a couple of months ago he would use all the time to go into our backyard where we have his aerial run.  I'm not sure if I'd trust him ever doing that again since they're kinda slick old wood and I'm haunted by the one day around mid-June (when he first started limping a bit) that he lost his balance at the top and slid/fell down the whole way kinda sprawled out like Bambi on the ice pond.  We have a tie-out in the front yard that we got when he couldn't go down to his aerial run anymore that I guess we could use for him to lay down outside and pee when he wanted, but it's been either too wet in the mornings or too hot in the afternoon for him to want to be out.  He hasn't peed anymore inside–one person who posted was right, I was pulling up on the towel too much because I wanted to really support him and that made him not want to pee.  I do it much looser and he goes eventually although I still have to force him to go outside in the first place.  

He threw up twice last night and his appetite isn't returning very much.  Something he'll eat one day he'll absolutely refuse the rest of the time.  It's taking us about 45 minutes to get him to take his medication and supplements because he won't eat anything he normally likes.  I've tried peanut butter, pill pockets, all kinds of meat, canned food, bread, creamed cheese, regular cheese, banana, you name it.  Also he started tremoring yesterday and I called the specialist and she said that sometimes they do that from the pain or nausea and that as long as his breathing was ok it probably wasn't anything to worry about.  Thought I'd mention that in case it happens to others and they get freaked out like I did. 

One day at a time.  I've only gotten a couple hours of sleep in the past week or so in order to watch him and help him get up to move so that's made my patience not what it would be normally but I'm not taking it out on him of course.  I try not to let him see the frustration.  I guess it also doesn't help that my father, who has been opposed to the amputation from day one and wanted him euthanized as soon as he was limping, has said daily for over a month that I'm a horrible selfish person for putting Mac through this and that I should be ashamed of myself.  Lovely, right?  I just hope Macadoodle feels better soon.  Ok he just threw up again.  I wonder if anything but the pepcid can help his stomach. 

Lots of hugs to everybody on 2 and 3 legs alike.      

Jack has reached that point as well where once I get out the jar of peanut butter he runs into the other room because he knows there are going to be pills hiding in there.  I remember reading in some thread on here that putting butter on the pill works, so after about 10 minutes of trying to get him to eat the pills nicely and then giving up and trying to shove them down his throat, I had had enough and grabbed the butter.  10 seconds later, all 3 pills were in Jack's tummy.  They know when they are being tricked, those smart little dogs!