Home, battered, bruised but glad to be home

She's home! Now the hard work starts! She is as mobile as she can be right now with a huge metal frame on her leg, covered at the moment by a massive dressing. I have a boot to protect the dressing when she goes outside and I have to keep her on a short lead while she toilets. I think I'll be shedding pounds in the next few weeks! Up, down, up, down, back and forth to garden every couple of hours :( She is so pleased to be back with me and is frustrated she can't go upstairs to relax and snooze on my bed. When I said 'bedtime' last night she headed for the stairs :( although I slept downstairs with her, she was not happy sleeping in the lounge. I hope she will settle down in the next few nights and sleep through alone downstairs. If she does wimper in the night I hope I hear her. I won't be sleeping well for a while.
Whenever she had to have pills in the past I always gave them to her stuffed in a small slit in the side of a cocktail sausage. She used to just swallow these whole so it was easy. Now she has cottoned on to the 'loaded' sausage and she chews every last morsel in case there's a pill she can spit out LOL I have bought some smoked mackeral as a replacement pill disguise. I defy her to smell a pill in that LOL
The bad side is the problem pills are the anti biotics and they are HUGE. I've tried breaking them into halves or quarters to hide but they get spat out rapidly. She has a narrow jaw so the popping a pill down her throat and holding her til it's swallowed does not easily work. So it's a twice daily battle :( She needs the ABs as it was an open fracture with the bone coming through the skin :( I am amazed they didn't actually try to set the bone in line while they were operating on her but apparently it will fuse in with the other bones.
The op she has had will fuse the wrist bones eventually but the orthopedic surgeon said she will be able to walk and even run again. I do hope so. In the mean time I'll have the metal pins to deal with and keep clean and infection free.

I hope you have a great weekend whatever you're up to. xx