Now at 7 days post amp. Going pretty well. Townsey is regaining his old personality and doing better and better at adpating to 3 legs. His gait when he is going faster than a walk looks effortless. At slower speeds he looks okay too.

Still won't try the stairs but he does wait at the bottom for me to help him up. The towel doesn't work for him, so i just give his rear end a little lift as we go a step at a time. Works okay. I do have the RUff harness on the way, so I imagine that will help a lot.

As far as pain meds, seems there was a miscommunication when we picked him up. They said use Tramadol as needed, but I talked to the surgeon yesterday and he was shocked that we weren't giving Townes 2 tramdol 3 times a day, which is what he wanted. He really believes that pain hinders recovery a lot.  The heavy panting has slowed quite a bit anyway, but I'm going to follow the doc's instructions and keep him on the Tramadol for 4 more days, whether I think he needs it or not. He's also on 75mg of Novox twice a day.

So overall things are good. I haven't had one of those moments where I was sorry I had gone ahead with the amputation for 3 days of so. Instead I've been filled with a lot of gratitude that I found my way to do it. No little thanks to you folks!

cheers,

Dan

Hi All,

Here's an update on Townsey's progress.   THe news is about as good as it can be, He had his stitches out Wednesday, and is no longer having to wear a cone on his head (to protect the incision from him licking). Although it wasn't easy at first, he seems to be adjusting and compensating well. I think we got very lucky in that we had a relatively easy time of it, or at least have had so far.