Are We Still Doing This?
Reporting in with a quick update on Riot’s Monday. Riot was very excited about breakfast and ate it all quite quickly. I didn’t want to offer him too much at once so I figured he’d still be hungry when I offered him a second breakfast later. He wanted nothing to do with that.
Apparently he’s won over everyone at the vets’ office as we had two different people call to check on him yesterday morning. We had a scheduled appointment at 11:40 and when we got there everyone had to give him some pets. He was a bit reserved choosing to stay sitting next to me that to venture out to see people, but once they got close he had plenty of tail wags and kisses for everyone.
Our check was just a quick check to make sure he was feeling better. He was weighed again and came in at 40.5 pounds. They weighed him in at 44.5 pounds on Wednesday before surgery. He was 43.5 when he initially came in sick the Saturday before last. The weight gain could have been from fluids, but we need to go back on Wednesday to make sure he hasn’t lost any more. We were also given some more Sucralfate (which kind of acts like a band-aid for the stomach) since he was coming off the anti-nausea meds.
His first meal starting to come off the anti-nausea meds was last evening and he did okay. We got about 4-5oz of canned food in him with a few pieces of his dog food sprinkled in. He picked out his dog food first. I’m not sure if there was a little bit of nausea after eating or not.
Maybe if we get through dinner tonight (which will have been more than 24 hours since the last administration of anti-nausea meds), I’ll start to relax.
He’s certainly more active and wants to play. And amazing enough his incision doesn’t seem to bother him and he’ll lay on his back and stretch his legs out which would have to be stretching out the incision too. It’s getting harder and harder to keep him quiet — which I guess is a good and bad. We took a very short walk to the end of the street and back last night.
