I suppose anesthesia affects everyone differently; for Charlie it made him very scared of everything. At first he was VERY happy to see us, he was happy to get home, but he was afraid of everything, grass, water, noise, quiet... the three of us slept very little last night. He wanted to be near Fred who comforted him all night, we both tried but he was very restless and just didn't want to be sleeping. So with no more than a few minutes sleep here and there, here we are today... ugh, Fred had to work (I can't imagine)... Charlie started out extremely scared, but once the garbage men started down the street I opened the front door so the solid glass door was there so he could see. I put his bed in front of it with his Flossie (that he's been eating since 5am), Fred's sock from yesterday (which he cannot part with) and a new red rope toy (I used to lure him to get him to go outside... had to catch him)... for now i have the leash/collar on him so that it's easier to catch him next time... I am not taking my eyes off him (so he doesn't lick or get the leash tangled around anything). We have the e-collar, but have opted to not use it since he was so fearful of everything, we didn't want to make it worse... They didn't do the surgery until noon (or a little later) yesterday so maybe it just takes a while to get out of the system... I have the french door slightly closed so it acts like a mirror, I can see his every move... so a happy 'ab-bup' sound stops the licking. he's happily looking out the window now... I would plop myself down on the floor next to him and take a nap if the mail lady wasn't going to be coming by shortly... if i fell asleep on the floor i'm afraid she'd call 9-1-1, ha ha... Hoping we all sleep this evening! I cannot wait!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Ohhhh weeeeee what a night!
I suppose anesthesia affects everyone differently; for Charlie it made him very scared of everything. At first he was VERY happy to see us, he was happy to get home, but he was afraid of everything, grass, water, noise, quiet... the three of us slept very little last night. He wanted to be near Fred who comforted him all night, we both tried but he was very restless and just didn't want to be sleeping. So with no more than a few minutes sleep here and there, here we are today... ugh, Fred had to work (I can't imagine)... Charlie started out extremely scared, but once the garbage men started down the street I opened the front door so the solid glass door was there so he could see. I put his bed in front of it with his Flossie (that he's been eating since 5am), Fred's sock from yesterday (which he cannot part with) and a new red rope toy (I used to lure him to get him to go outside... had to catch him)... for now i have the leash/collar on him so that it's easier to catch him next time... I am not taking my eyes off him (so he doesn't lick or get the leash tangled around anything). We have the e-collar, but have opted to not use it since he was so fearful of everything, we didn't want to make it worse... They didn't do the surgery until noon (or a little later) yesterday so maybe it just takes a while to get out of the system... I have the french door slightly closed so it acts like a mirror, I can see his every move... so a happy 'ab-bup' sound stops the licking. he's happily looking out the window now... I would plop myself down on the floor next to him and take a nap if the mail lady wasn't going to be coming by shortly... if i fell asleep on the floor i'm afraid she'd call 9-1-1, ha ha... Hoping we all sleep this evening! I cannot wait!
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So glad to hear that Charlie is feeling better and his surgery went well! I was scared for the little guy.
ReplyDeleteWhew, us too! I think maybe it was the 'trauma' of him being in a crate for 4 hours until they took him for surgery (they took him last because he was so 'good'/didn't make a sound, i think it was more that he was scared)... not sure how we're ever going to take a vacation... can't leave him anywhere... ugh... maybe I created a monster, ha ha??
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