Rosie and her surgery

Our little Rosie was diagnosed with hip dysplasia at the beginning of the year.  Since her decline was pretty rapid, we took her to Circle City Vets on the north of town to see if she was a candidate for surgery, and thankfully she was!  So yesterday, Rosie had a femoral head ostectomy on her right rear leg.  She had to stay overnight, but I picked her up this afternoon and she's doing MUCH better than I anticipated!  She's not putting much weight on it, but that's all we're going to work on for the next two weeks....slow walks and pressure on the leg.  Then we'll go back to the vet, get her staples removed and start physical therapy, which includes an underwater treadmill, which is EXCELLENT therapy for this type of surgery.  There'll be some exercises that we'll do with her at home (like dancing...hmmmm...better create a playlist for this :) so it'll be a lot of work on our part to make sure she heals properly.

I'm very thankful that Joacim's can take Rosie with him to work to keep an eye on her, since I've been out sick this week and cannot afford the time off.  We've got to ice her 4 times a day, keep her on a leash at all time, try to get her to put pressure on her leg (even if that means putting a piece of tape on her left foot) and make sure she's comfortable.  She back to wearing the e-collar, and she looks absolutely pathetic...reminds me of the reason I fell in love with her on the Humane Society website :)

Here's Rosie seeing Murphy when I brought her home.  I had to keep them separate initially because I didn't want them to get wound up and play like they normally do...kinda sad, huh?

Dad's defibrillator surgery

My dad had a defibrillator put in last Tuesday.  A scary procedure for all of us (especially Dad) because they were actually cutting him this time.  Thankfully, everything went very well.  While Dad was in recovery, we headed out to one of my favorite places for some lunch:  Dog 'n Suds.

  heaven

My charco cheeseburger and Izzy's corn dog

Izzy and Auntie Bri had a good time while we were waiting for our food.  And Izzy wore a shirt that Grandma and Grandpa got her...something to the effect that her Grandpa's a biker and he Kicks Butt (thought it would make him happy, and it did :)

I had debated on taking Izzy up to Lafayette, but after seeing the look on Dad's face when he saw her after his surgery, I'm sooo glad I did.  She wanted to sit with Gampaw, so she climbed up in his bed and situated herself here.  I think my Dad was over the moon!

And then Izzy had a sucker.  A blueberry sucker, to be more specific.

 And here is the result :)

 And here she is eating tic tacs with her crazy blue tongues (yes, it was a day filled with candy...so what?)

So far, Dad's doing pretty well.  I think he still has some pain and discomfort, and some dizzy spells if he's standing or walking too long, but hopefully that will subside once he's complete off of his pain medication.