Good afternoon all. Well, it’s been 19 days now since surgery. Things seem to have settled down. Ginger still has a bit of an infection that shows in what has been draining out of her for 18 days now! She is on her second round of antibiotics. This round more potent. Today has been our first day without drainage and can I say it’s about darn time! Since Ginger has come home she has not been alone at all. Between days off for both Gingers Mom and Dad and our poor son having the disadvantage of having his college break last week, we have been able to have someone home with Ginger 24/7. The main reason for the constant supervision is Gingers total hatred for that darn lampshade she would have had to wear. Put that darn thing on Ginger and she gets the deer in the headlight look and will not move. If I could get her to balance on her one rear leg and then put that lampshade on her, she would stay balanced on that leg indefinitely! She just totally freezes up so the lampshade was not an option. And Ginger is a little lady and likes to keep clean so she would definitely lick if we left her alone. It has been 18 days of sleeping on the air mattress on the floor and spending all our time with her. The things we do for our pets! But she is worth it. It is for certain she is handling this better then we humans are! 🙂
Ginger still amazes me. If I went thru 10% of what she did, I’d be still in bed, whining about my bad luck. Ginger is walking around, living each day to it’s fullest. We sure can learn from our pets. I am going to steal Lincoln’s line (Lincoln the Golden tripawd) and say that we are gonna make this a Ginger summer. She deserves it.
We are still waiting for the results of her leg biopsy and next Tuesday she gets her remaining stitches out, so we still have a long way to go. Like it is said here, we are living one day at a time.
Have a great day all.