Beginning Week Five

It has been four weeks and two days since the leg surgery. The stitches have been removed and the cone has been off for two weeks, The surgical wound is fully healed. Her leg is better now than it was that fateful day back in March when she pulled up lame in front of her vet's office. She walks without a limp, and is ready to run and play like the old days. Unfortunately, we still have two months of "no running, no jumping" to go.

I have been surprised, however. by how well she has adapted to this new new normal - new normals have been coming at us with increasing rapidity. Just this morning, when I was getting ready to turn her back toward home, she turned herself and trotted happily in that direction.

I reckon that the old days of two and a half hour walks are gone forever. Maybe it's harder on me than it is on her. I like to walk. I also need the exercise. I'm turning into a big old toad.