Weise's World

I know I've been remiss in my duties at keeping Jedi's status up to date, but here you go...

So visting hours are from 12-2 and 7-9 --- From 12-2 Christian is in school and from 7-9 on Tuesday we would have soccer practice. However, the soccer coach sent an email around 3pm that he was stuck in LA with plane delays and practice would be cancelled!! So when I picked up Christian I talked to him about visiting Jedi and Christian was very excited to do it. I was glad to see that, we do love our Jedi!

We left the house around 6:30 and got there just before 7. It didn't matter, they let us back there and Jedi looked GREAT!!  Much better than I thought he would do 24 hours after his surgery. He was excited to see us, standing up and walking around. He did not have an e-Collar on (the cone of shame) as he wasn't bothering his incision/staples and he was under 24 hour monitoring. He was eating regular food, drikning water, pooping and peeing all the normal things! We took him out back on a leash and he was walking fine, though he was sedated to keep him calm. It stunk pretty bad back there so we took him back and just sat with him a bit, then took him out front. After about 20-30 minutes with him we left and went home (too close to bed time). It made both of us feel a lot better that he was doing so well!

The next day (Wednesday) around noon I got the call that Jedi could go home. I picked him up and got the care instructions - 2 pills 3 times a day; 1.5 pills 3 times a day; reduce his food intake to lose weight; monitor to make sure he's eating, drinking, pooping and peeing. Light walks to relieve himself are okay, but nothing that causes him to exert himself - light, short and easy. When unsupervised he needs to be confined to prevent any exertion and he needs to wear an e-Collar just in case he decides the incision/staples are bugging him. He also had an incident before I picked him up - they took off his IV tubes (he hadn't used the IV since Monday night anyway) and put tape on the hole where the needle was... Well, he didn't like the tape and chewed it off and apparently ate some of it. They made him throw up, but it dodn't come up. So now there is concern that he may not pass the tape through his system - oh great!!

Now it's Saturday and he's been doing great overall. Each day he is more and more himself. He still hasn't touched the incision, though when gone for more than 30 minutes I do put the Collar of Shame on him. Thankfully we have a soft disc and not the traditional collar - he doesn't like things over his head. Having to wear the collar over night has kept me up a bit as he rubs it against the bed sometimes... Oh well. 1 more week to go and he should have the staples removed and wouldn't need the collar any more.