It’s been a week and a day, and I’m amazed at Molly. She’s handling this so well. She’s creating her new path on her own. We helped her in any way we could, and strangely she seems to know that we are there for her. She can fly up the two steps leading from outside to the kitchen like she still has four legs, yet coming down in another story. She tried it a few times and it must have hurt. Now she will wait for us to pick her up. When her incision heals, we can put the harness on her.
She tires easily, and sleeps a lot but she sleeps with us … in bed, on our laps, beside us on the couch where we can pet her and pet her. Love helps the healing … it really does, but not just for dogs. And the dog-love we feel from her is healing us.
I am picking up my new tripawd today – am encouraged by your story …great to h ear Molly is dong so well!
isn’t it amazing how an experience like this opens up new avenues for all of us…seems the tripawd becomes the teacher, and we become the students – amazed at their resilience and power of true joyfulness. so glad to hear molly is doing so well!!!
charon & gayle
Best of luck with your new tripawd. It was a shock, I must say. Nothing prepares you for that first look. It’s the way that they just accept it that helps us to accept it as well. She gets her stitches out tomorrow and I’m glad. It’s another milestone. And once her stitches come out hopefully we won’t find her so fragile and be so afraid when we pick her up that we are hurting her. With her losing her front leg, it’s like we have to learn all over again how to pick her up.
Hi Molly:
It sounds like you are doing a good job of looking after PJ, making sure she gets enough sleep and food and play. You sure are a special dog, so here’s a big WOOF to you!
jam