The day after surgery

As we really needed Jazz to sleep in his crate last night, I decided that bandaging the wound overnight was a kinder choice than making him wear a lamp shade in a confined space.

Jazz woke us up around 1:00am last night, sounding really sorry for himself. I was worried that he was in pain, but luckily, it turned out that he was just uncomfortable and wanted to go outside because his nappy had slipped and he needed a wee. After that, and with a fresh nappy he was fine for the rest of the night.

Today, the leg's seemed quite a lot less stiff than it did last night. Getting up and walking around doesn't seem to be bothering him, although we're not encouraging too much of it. I took the bandage off first thing and trimmed away the blood-matted fur to discourage him from licking at it, and it all looks rather cleaner now. As requested by Fiona I haven't tried to clean it up any more than that though.

The dopiness from the anesthetic has worn off, but he's got a lot of healing to do, so not surprisingly has been sleeping a lot today. That's probably just as well, as he can't worry at the wound while he's asleep.

He's had the first dose of the Propalin this morning.