Well.. I haven’t been very faithful to my blog here with Franklin’s progress. Unfortunately I just don’ t have lots of time in the evening to sit down and type.. and during the day while I am at work is not good.. Big Brother Watches You!!
Franklin’s surgery was 5 weeks ago.. I cannot believe that 5 weeks have flown by so fast. I did call the vet today because I have noticed that there are some hard lumps underneath Franklin’s incision. I’m new at this tripawd title and I just want to make sure that it is not fluid build up. His incision is clear, clean and not red so I am hopefully crossing out infection. My “vet in my head” tells me that it could just be scar tissue. But, we are going to the vet’s on Thursday to have a quick check up.
I have been trying to get Franklin out for a walk every day.. and we walk down to the end of our street and up onto the dyke by the river. This guy loves to walk along side on the hill… maybe he feels balanced!! lol
We didn’t go for our walk today.. or yesterday… I think the old fart over did it a bit. On Sunday night when he went to get up, he kept falling forward.. like his leg was sore, pained or possibly asleep!! But I did notice that there was a bit of a difference in his “tri-hop” so we just took it easy for a day or two.
That has got to be everyone’s worst fear.. that they hurt the one leg left on that end, whether it be the front or back. I know it is mine..
Other than the lumps that are under his incision, Franklin is doing pretty darn tooting good! Ha ha.. pardon the pun.. “toot” get it?
His appetite is good, bowels are good and he has almost got it down pat on how to hold a treat with his one paw so he can chew on it. Otherwise, he goes and lays down in the snow and uses the snow to help him hold it. lol
I have a few videos of Franklin that I am going to try to upload. I tried to upload the one video of him at 3 days after surgery and it just did not seem to work.. geesh.. I am not a computer genius at the least!
So glad to hear Franklin is doing good. Maggie is also 5 weeks post op. She is doing so well I had to ask fellow tripawds if I should slow her down because she is running and playing at Weimer speed and I’m also afraid she will hurt her only front leg. We have another 4 yr old Weim and are dogsitting a border collie so things are at breakneck speed here. Funny note; I thought Maggie wouldn’t be able to dig (her fav). She smelled something in the snow and she started digging in the snow with an agility I thought not possible. Dogs are rad!