Here we are! We made it this far! Trying to be as pawsitive as pawsible. Eva’s eating sort of okay (about half as much kibble as normal but shows interest in treats and eats baby food.) I’m gonna order some honest kitchen grain free samples for her because I feel like she’ll like them but I’m not gonna order 10lbs of something I’m not sure about. I’ve made that mistake enough times >.<

Day two, which was yesterday, we noticed a lot of bruising. I mentioned it in the forums but I wanna document it here. I was definitely not nervous when I saw it but I still wanted  to show people because it’s nice to just have the extra reassurance. I showed a vet tech and she agreed that it was perfectly normal two day post-operative bruising! Which I basically knew anyway but I am 50 minutes away from the vet, or about a half hour if I’m taking the freeway which I don’t like to do because mush likes to stand in the backseat and if she’s unstable or something is wrong it’s kinda hard to drive freeway speed and keep her safe at the same time.

So there’s her day two bruising. Today, day 3, it looks a little less bad honestly. Which is cool because it looks like someone pinched her really hard and it makes my stomach hurt. The bandages are holding on, which is a relief because Mush loves to rub her butt up against everything and she honestly still keeps wanting to rub that side on the edge of the couch and i have to stop her and I just don’t need her touching that incision against the couch. Seriously. Talking about it makes me so sick feeling!

She’s tired today for sure. We haven’t let her outdo herself or anything but she definitely is sleepy. She is alert and shows interest when she hears a noise that perks her up. She dictates when she has to go outside to go potty and when we’re outside she usually wants to stay out and wander around a little since I take her in the front now on her leash. Today it’s been pouring rain so it’s been a little harder to get miss priss out. Even before she got sick we would laugh because she HATES wet grass, she’ll go in the back yard and back her butt up to the edge of where the grass meets the driveway and she’ll squat and pee onto the grass and then go running back inside with her ears tucked behind her head like a fighter jet.

She makes some weird breathing noises but I feel like she’s always made them. I think this is one of those instances where I’m over analyzing an old behavior because I don’t have a diagnosis and I feel like every single thing is related. It isn’t like it is something that happens all the time, it just seems like her airways close every once in a while when she’s asleep and she’ll take a huge deep breath to fix it and then maybe cough once or twice and that’s the end of it. She’s always snored, bad. I imagine she’s just sleeping harder now. She doesn’t seem to be in pain or uncomfortable and when she wants to move she can get up and move freely so I know if she was having trouble breathing she would let me know.

it’s definitely our bed time!