Timber's surgery

I went to the vet right after work and then sat there for 2 hours while she took care of emergencies and late appts. *sigh* Fortunately, I keep knitting in the car, so I went out and got it, and turned a heel while I was waiting. :) It's a fuzzy pink 60% angora bedsock.

Good hips! Hurray! They look real good and clear (no arthritic changes). If he was registered, I'd OFA him and some breeder would be real happy.

The vet said, "He's all hair!" I said, "I keep telling you that!" She said they shaved him for surgery, put the drapes on, and the drapes were like 3 inches off his body, sitting up on all that hair. When he's standing you can't see that he's had anything done; the hair just falls over and covers it.

Apparently she found some other little bumps on him, because he has a shaved patch with 2 incisions on his neck in front of his shoulder and another with 2 more incisions just in back of his shoulder. He can't reach either with his teeth, but first thing he did (almost) was sit down and scratch, so he's currently wearing a t-shirt and the cut-off leg of a pair of old sweatpants, and he looks so funny.

We got home and he drank a lot of water, peed a river, drank some more water, ate a small dinner (I only gave him about half what he usually gets), then went into the bedroom and jumped up on the bed and went to sleep. I spent the evening sitting on the bed with him, reading and knitting.

Taenzer got upset enough to give herself diahrrea. Silly dog. But her routine was all messed up--no Timber all day, we got home really late (I wanted to see his x-rays and the vet was running really late), and then Timber came back smelling all funny and I kept fussing over him and instead of sitting with her out in the living room, I sat with them in the bedroom. She's so *sensitive*.

I was going to stay home this morning and keep an eye on him, but when I asked him to lie flat on his side on the couch in the living room (lots of morning light) so I could get my first good look at his incisions, he fell asleep. He got all excited and was ready to come to work with me--I think Timber would make a good traveling companion!--but I think once I left he probably went back to his crate and went to sleep.

Everybody at the vet's office loves him--"He's such a doll!" Yes, he is. When we went in that morning, one of the girls behind the counter said hello to him, and he put his front feet on the counter to say hi back. Cutie.

So things look good for him. :) We go back in 10-14 days to get the stitches removed. I'm guessing 10--the incisions look so good this morning, no inflammation or swelling or oozing. I think I'll take the t-shirt and sweatpants leg off tomorrow.

Pictures eventually. The laptop is still non compos mentis--last time I looked the antivirus program was still running its scan (this is going on 4 or maybe 5 days now).