Shaved Spots, Stairs and a Pink Cast: Or Rosie's Recovery

Yay! Rosie is home and sporting a hot pink cast (as well as some shaved spots in, well, let's just say some delicate areas). According to the surgical team, she was a real trooper (naturally) and we were thrilled to pick her up today.

But Rosie's recovery isn't over yet---she has to make several return visits to the vet to make sure she is healing properly plus she is on what is called 'severely restricted movement'. No walks longer than 5 minutes,  no stairs, in fact they suggest keeping dogs who have had this surgery confined 'in a crate or small, carpeted sparsely furnished room". 

The walks won't be a problem, as Rosie dislikes the outdoors and is often coaxed/bribed/dragged out the door to go on walks. But the stairs and the confinement pose problems. We have one main staircase in our home which Rosie trots up and down quite frequently at all times of day, mostly following us. You see, Rosie loathes to have us out of her eyesight. Even if I'm just going into the next room, she'll quickly follow me and if we're in separate rooms, Rosie just keeps going back and forth to make sure we're all okay. During the night, she hops off the bed, creeps to Lucy's room to check and then hops back on the bed (several times mind you, and then she has to make herself comfortable all over again but that's a different story).

She freaks out if she can't be with us---she'll cry, whine, bang, one time she scratched a door so furiously she almost drew blood so obviously confinement is out. As for the stairs, Matt is getting used to carrying her up and down. It's only 6 weeks until she can walk up stairs. We'll all be really buff by then (even Lucy, we all do our share here).