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Thanks. I am excited about T's accelerating rate of progress. Its also a huge relief that I can leave him on his own during the day. He can go in and out of the enclosed porch on his own to do his business (or scare a cat, LOL) when he likes. The fact that this coincides with my Dr. pronouncing me "fit to return to normal activities" last week is another big plus... With the longer days and hot weather, and warm water right around the corner, I'm loking forward to taking T to the boat ramp lagoon down at the river to swim in the evenings. Now that he's able to walk some I'm not so worried about how to get him from the parking lot to the beach. :-)

I won't belabor my personal crap here, (no more) save to mention I have been pursuing a somewhat complicated divorce for nearly 2 years and will be relieved when that's finally settled sometime this year, regardless of lack of cooperation from the opposition or the results.
It may have rained for nearly 3 weeks here in CA, but I see sunshine and blue skies ahead.  :-)

S

It will be wonderful when you can swim T, I think his rate of progress should accelerate even more. Does he love to swim?

Hope for plenty of blue skies ahead for you both.

T does not love to swim like most of the GSD's I have had, but he will do it. I plan to take my swim shorts and get right in with him, with a flotation vest on him, till he is strong enough to swim on his own for a toy, make it to shore without worry. Hopefully we'll be able to leave off the vest eventually, but for the first while I want to focus on him regaining strength and endurance. He's so bored right now he might be thrilled to swim with a toy in his mouth. ;-) Me too. I miss our evenings walking and playing at the cemetery, and I'm too fat after the surgery and not training dogs this year. :-O

No swimming for at least 10 days. My poor old boy lost his balance trying to run to the door in the backyard this morning, fell and split his left front leg open so badly I had to get his wound stapled when the vet opened. :-( Now he's hurting, which tears me up. I hate to kennel him, but I guess maybe its time to build him a padded/carpeted run with a little patch of grass on one end to keep him safe when I'm not home.

Oh, what a shame.  Get better soon T.

BTW a padded run sounds like a good idea. It may be horrible to have to kennel him, but it will keep him safe when you aren't around. The boy has ambition - you have to give him that. Big heart.

Damn, Shelley, that sucks.  Fortunately, T will be less bothered by it than you will, so it really shouldn't impede his progress...but yeah, probably will need to set up something he can't hurt himself in when you're not around to hawkeye him.  On the bright side, he was feeling good enough to try hurrying to the door; he's gonna do some falling as he tests how much of his balance he's regained, and learns to compensate for the deficits, and there's nothing you can do but feel awful when it happens and patch him up, just like he was a kid who fell off his bike and skinned his knees up.

It hurt when the lidocaine wore off, but we wrapped it pretty well with sterile gauze, vetrap, and a layer of stretch adhesive to keep it clean and help hold the skin in place while the staples do their job. He seems less uncomfortable this morning, but groaned a bit turning over on his bed during the night, reluctant to lay on that side. It probably does bother me more than it does T. I barely beat him back to the door when I put him out in the side yard to do his biz this am.

I'll spend this weekend creating as safe an environment as I can for him when I am not here during the day. I have some cheap kennel panels, and thick rubber mats... just have to figure out how to configure them and cover the result for shade. Its not like he's going to try to escape. :-/  I have my eye on a covered patio gazebo somebody dropped off at my landlord's hangar that ended up in the back yard. The size looks about right. :-)
He never eats in the back yard anyway. Heh heh heh.

Hexe is right again. T is back on his feet this morning, standing up to eat, almost as if nothing had happened, just a bit sore on that leg, and at the wound site of course. If anything, I think he's using his rear end MORE to compensate, which will accelerate his healing back there.
Can't keep a good dog down. :-)

Shelley...good to hear (read) that...thank you for updates.