Day 2.

Well, when I showed up at the clinic Thursday morning I had the shock of my life. There was Mae -standing- on all four limbs with one of the Techs that taking her temperature. Standing. Weight bearing, on her FHO leg... the very next day! I was so surprised, but totally thrilled. I was hardly expecting Mae to bear weight on her leg at all, let alone so soon.

I started icing her leg today, which she was kind of confused about. At first she wanted to eat the ice pack and then she just wanted to scramble away from it. Eventually she settled down and let me do it, but I feel like it will take her a while to get used to.

I snapped a quick picture of Mae's leg, you can totally see her old scar underneath her new incision and you can see how off it is. So bizarre. The incision looks alright so far though, it's a little swollen and bruised but better than it could be. Surprisingly she hasn't been bothering or licking at it at all, but just to be safe we will be keeping her E-collar on at night or when we can't watch her.

Mae also received her first treatment with the therapeutic laser today, an 8-minute post surgical setting that should help with the incision healing and hopefully make her more comfortable. Her next treatments are Saturday and Monday, then after that probably Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Not sure though, I'll figure it out.

So far so good, Mae comes home on Friday! :)