I haven't updated the blog because life has been boring. Koda has been on house arrest for 8 weeks to the day. He has only been outside to do his business on leash. Sometimes we would go outside and lay on the lawn, but he's really just been trapped in the house.
We did have one scary moment last week. We went out last Thursday to go potty, and Koda lifted up his leg. It broke my heart to see him holding it up. He three legged it back to the house, and I put him in the crate all day with Tramadol. But by that evening he was better and the surgeon just thought it was a hiccup.
He did well on Friday at physical therapy. He has been getting cold laser treatments regularly and is up to 7 minutes in the water treadmill. He doesn't get sore at all afterwards. He was also fine all weekend, but I was nervous going in today. I've waited 56 days for today, and I wanted to hear that we could start doing some short walks.
The vet tech took Koda back for xrays and when they came back the surgeon said Koda was ready to be out in the world. No restrictions other than being kept on leash and no running for another month. I can definitely live with that!!!! I'm so excited for both Koda and I. We can finally start to get our life back.
Tonight we celebrated by going to my parent's house for dinner. My mom and I took him and her dog for a walk just down the street to the corner and back. Koda was thrilled. He was on cloud nine, and didn't even care that this is probably 1/8 of the walk we used to do. He was so happy to be out in the world. I'm scared that tomorrow he will be in pain. See as much as I thought I was ready to let him out in the world; I've come to realize that it has felt good to protect him in the house.
The surgeon's office is emailing me Koda's xrays tomorrow. I will post as soon as I get them.
