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My poor, beautiful little girl. She is in a sorry way, and I feel so sorry for her. We are doing everything we can to make her comfortable, but there’s only so much you can do.

Friday night was, as we expected, a nightmare, what with all the pacing and crying after her anaesthetic. She just couldn’t settle. In the end I slept on the sofa in my sitting room, but it did little to reassure her. I suppose that I should be grateful that I managed a few hours sleep, although 2.30am saw me feeding her chicken & rice. She finally settled down around 5.45am. Chris, who’d slept through most of it, woke me up at 8am.

She slept in the sun in the lounge most of yesterday morning and then brightened up a bit, but is still pretty low. I suppose that’s to be expected though. She’s not very impressed with us taking her out into the garden on a lead, and at the moment while she’s still hopping on 3 legs I don’t think she can physically jump up on the wall. So I’m leaving her off the lead and just going out with her.

I took some photos of her yesterday – don’t worry, although her wound doesn’t have a dressing on it it’s not too nasty – Chris manages to look at it.

This was her early yesterday morning looking very sorry for herself.



Then this is her a bit later on when she’d perked up a bit.



And this is what they’ve done to the poor little soul.



Last night wasn’t much better than Friday night. She started crying again when we tried to go to bed. In the end after around 90 minutes I got back up as I didn’t want her to get too distressed. She is still frightened of her crate, so won’t go in it. We think it’s where she finds herself shut in a cage at the vet when she comes round. So I’m trying to persuade her back in now. Anyway, last night me being downstairs didn’t do much good, although letting her in the living room helped. So when she quietened a bit I went back to bed. Half hour later she woke me up as she was barking like mad. Chris slept through it all again, so once again your truly had to get up to her. I think I finally got back to bed and to sleep (until Chris’ alarm woke me up) at around 3.30am.

Today she’s been out in the sun in the garden for a while and although still not herself is a bit improved.



Plus there’s a bit of video of our poor little hop-a-long soul.



Oh – and her flatulence has returned. It’s unbearable – I’m feeding her wind tablets to try and ease it.

Otherwise there is not much to say except that I’ve nearly finished my cardigan. Just the second front edge and the sewing up to do. If it doesn’t look too bad I’ll post a piccie when I’ve finished it.