Koda has been doing great since coming home! The last 2 days she has gotten out twice to lay in the grass and potty outside. She has gotten herself up in the grass and walked a little unassisted. Getting stronger everyday! Figured out she needs anxiety meds in the evening to help her sleep through the night but doing so good taking her boatload of medicine.
6 days later and she is finally home with a boatload of medications! She is doing great already on her 3 legs and enjoyed some time laying in the grass when we got home.
I posted a couple of days ago about Koda taking a turn after her initial surgery to remove her leg. She lost a lot of red blood platelets and after going to a place overnight after surgery then moving 24 hours later to an emergency 24/7 vet staff she ended up going back into surgery there less than a day after being there. They found that 2 of her muscles were still bleeding internally and she would have not made it had we not given them the go for surgery. We are almost a day after the 2nd surgery now and she is holding steady on her numbers after some blood transfusions. I was able to get her to eat a smidge when we went to visit today and she is taking meds orally now. We know the milestones she needs to hit to come home but she is not out of the woods yet.
I made a post about a week or so ago about our Koda needing an amputation due to osteosarcoma. We had the surgery scheduled then rescheduled 2 more times due to things with the original surgeon. She had her surgery yesterday( 5/13) and ended up at an overnight care hospital for recovery. She did not eat until some point this morning and when we visited this afternoon she had started eating more. The vet did talk about her levels dropping and possibly needing moved to a facility that has a vet 24/7. This one just has vet techs/nurses from 7-7 monitoring. They are talking about if it continues dropping and needing a blood transfusion. I’m having so much anxiety about moving her again after going from where she had surgery to this hospital and so scared for what’s happening. She was alert when we saw her and eating and drinking and they have gotten her up and walking a couple of different times. I talked to our original vet that started all of this and she gave me a lot of advice in next step options. Koda is getting her levels checked again in about an hour and a half and I am just praying they start plateauing out or only dropping just a bit but so worried for what’s happening and even worse that we are not with her.
Tomorrow is the day, this sweet girl is going in for her surgery to get rid of the pain and cancer in her leg. Any tips or advice for once she comes home? I was feeling really good last week once we made the decision but now that is so close I’m freaking out just a little. Just want to make sure we are watching out for things and giving her all the great care she deserves in recovery. Trying to gather any questions I will have for the vet in the morning but if anyone has anything they wished they would’ve asked lay it on me!