I keep trying

Remember when I wrote a while ago, that I don't like weekdays, because my owners aren't with me throughout the day then?

Well, lately I keep trying to keep them at home. I know exactly when they will leave, then I lay in front of the door so they can't open it. It doesn't work though... they keep making me go up. It makes me sad but then again, it also makes me very, very happy, when they finally come home. So I guess the good just has to come with the less good.

2,9 cm to go

Well, since my last blog I have had two more surgeries.
The first one was to replace all the upper pins. It went well but I was so happy, when baasje and vrouwtje came to take me home again.
Less than two weeks later two pins had broken so on Wednesday morning, vrouwtje took me to the clinic again. Obviously, I wasn't happy when she left and I needed to stay there.

The vet also took x-rays again. Good news is, my bone is growing and developing. We are so happy about it! Now I only need 2,9 cm more and I hopefully will be there before Christmas! Then I might finally get rid of that damn metal thing. At first it was said that after my leg is on length, the metal needs to stay for about 2 more months to support my leg so the bone can fully develop. But my vet now said, that they can put steel plates in to support my leg. That would be soooooo much better - no heavy weight on my leg, no breaking pins and surgery because of it, no more being drugged every day to clean the wounds... What a wonderful life that must be!! So you all better wish me luck because both I and my owners really can need it.

The past two weeks vrouwtje and baasje clean my wounds at home. It really goes well but sometimes I make it difficult because I bite on the infusion in my paw. Then we need to go to the clinic again for a new one. I really don't want to make it even more stressful to my owners than it already is and luckily they know I only do these things because of discomfort and frustration.

More surgery needed

My last update is a while ago so time for a recap of the past two weeks.

Last week Friday I had to have surgery again. One of the pins had broken off and needed to be replaced. The pins are the thin sticks going through my leg. Luckily, the surgery could be done by my own vet and I didn't need to go back to the clinic in Antwerpen for it. Afterwards the vet took another x-ray. He then needed to discuss with the clinic because he wanted to make sure, everything goes according to plan.

The weekend I had "off" - two days of no vet, no being drugged. I really enjoyed it!!

On Monday the injection didn't knock me out. I kept running around, being alert and awake. So they tried it with some kind of gas. It's better than the injections but still vrouwtje and baasje said, they never want to do that again. It didn't feel good and I started to kick around before I was gone. Not really good for my leg. Then that stuff made me throw up and the nurse was wondering, if she needs to intubate. Needless to say, my owners were not too thrilled.

Yesterday my vet spoke to the clinic about the x-rays. Turns out that the screws need to be tightend every day now. I also need surgery again because the upper pins all need to be replaced. Because of the tighening they are bended, which is not good. So tomorrow it's under the knife again for me. :(

Then the vet wants to try to put an infusion in my paw, which will remain there. That way baasje and vrouwtje can give me the injections themselves over the weekend and we won't need to go to the vet for the cleaning and adjusting. Baasje is already doing that and we only need to go to the vet to knock me out.

Seriously, I'm happy if I don't need to go so often anymore. Already on the way I know what is going to happen and I'm getting very nervous. By now, I'm really sick and tired of the injections and how I feel when I wake up again. So whenever they stick me with the needle, I want to get rid of that and therefore almost bite. But no one is angry at me, they say it's understandable.

So tomorrow surgery and hopefully I won't pull out the infusion again (I did that last night, ooppsss) so that I can stay home this weekend.