The Big Op

Hello bloggy friends - I'm back and able to do a little update on what has happened to me these last few days. Leigh might have told you that I was due to have a big op last week...well then it got cancelled! Our regular vet was away and my peeps didn't want a vet they didn't know doing such a major surgery on me so I had to wait until this week - yesterday in fact.

Leigh took me down in the morning and the worst thing was no food!! Can you believe it? Just when you want cheering up with some tasty foodables, the peeps say 'Nothing to eat because of the operation'  :-( Well no wonder I was so weak and down when Leigh brought me back home:

I couldn't walk very well and had to be carried wrapped in a blanket and then I didn't think I could get out of the car crate so Leigh carried it indoors with me inside and put me in the quiet room away from the others to rest. She gave me some little tablets called homeopathic pills to help me recover from the anaesthetic (Sulphur and Nux Vom) and then some more later to help get over the surgery and pain (Arnica and Hyp/Cal) Leigh has a little pet box of these tiny pills to help make us feel better at times like this :-)

I slept in the crate overnight near my peeps but I was so tired I didn't wake up until morning...and I was feeling a bit peckish to say the least! As you can see I have been lucky enough not to have to wear a cone as long as I try and forget about the stitches - I have that little Tshirt again which I wore to stop my pups from suckling when they were weaning :-) Well, I had some breakfast - at last! and I got to lick out Crybbe's bowl when he wasn't looking:

So I just have to rest now and be pampered for a while until I get better. My peeps think I will be much happier once I get over the op as I won't need to worry about bleeding and hormones every 6 months, and Crybbe getting all wound up and wanting us to have babies together, and I can just enjoy myself as a schnauzer of leisure :-) The last pic is from before the op when I looked a lot smarter - I'm a bit bedraggled just now but hopefully not for too long!