Shalai is still wearing her cone of shame. We're actually on cone #3. Girl's a little tough on cones. We've been duct-taping them for as long as possible and then replacing them when there's nothing left to duct tape. And then last week Shalai finally figured out how to lick her wound while wearing her cone. We had to go up a size, which as been miserable for everyone.
Shalai runs into absolutely EV.ER.Y.THING with that cone. Our legs, walls, stair treads, Beemer, chair legs, tables, drawers, beds....everything. And she doesn't care. At all.
Her leg is healing up ok. Since she took the stitches out on her own it's taking a lot longer to heal than any of us would like, but so far we're infection free.
At this point we're going on week 4 of our adventure, and our biggest battle now is keeping her from running around too much. Poor girl is going absolutely stir crazy.
But, we've really glad it's starting to heal. We're thankful we didn't need to do a second surgery. And we're really really thankful she's been kind enough to leave the cone on so the wound can heal.
And yes - we are making progress on the house. Kind of. Nick ended up working a big chunk of the weekend (thanks to a little snowstorm) and wasn't up for any projects by the time we got home on Sunday. Apparently 2.5 hours of sleep won't inspire you to re-do some plumbing on a Sunday night. Updates soon!
Poor little sad sack! Hoping she cooperates until the cone is ready to come off for real.
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ReplyDeletePoor puppy. I can only imagine how hard that is!
That is so cute! And sad. Sad but cute.
ReplyDeleteOh no, I HATE the cone of shame. Murphy had to wear one for 3 weeks last summer. It was terrible. Our guy was equally destructive. It was scary at times! It's like he refused to learn and just kept running into things and scraping it/getting stuck on things. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery for your girl. :)
ReplyDeletePoor baby. She looks like she's milking it up in that picture. I know when Franco got hurt, he really used it to his advantage. Glad she's getting better.
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