Josie's surgery

This past monday Josie got spayed, it is a pretty major surgery. For females dogs they actually do a total hysterectomy, I found the reason for this was because it greatly reduces their risk for developing cancer later in life. I dropped her off at the vet at 8am monday morning, and then was able to pick her up later that afternoon.

I am little unsure about how the recovery is going, she is definitely NOT herself. She also developed a sore from scratching the area they shaved her, thankfully not near the incision really but it is a pretty bad sore. So I have been putting a dressing on it and put an ace bandage around it to protect it so it can heal. She is just acting weird, doesn't want to move basically and just wants to hang out in her cage. Not a happy camper. She does continue to show minor improvement, I just thought her recovery would be a bit faster and go a little smoother than it is. Kind of breaks my heart to see her so uncomfortable :(

I hope she makes significant improvement over the next week because we are leaving for New York next thursday for a long weekend. Josie is staying with some good friends of ours, Dave and Amy, who have a little dog named Pepper. They are aware of Josie's current state, and are totally fine with watching her still thankfully! Amy is in med-school so I'm sure she'll be fine with handling our little patient. Josie did weigh in at the vet at 15.6lbs! A little more than I actually thought she weighed, she is such a big girl now. She is done growing I do believe, seeing as she is almost 9mon old now!

I am still just enjoying my time off from school still, don't start classes again till the 24th. Looking forward to getting back into it though, I know as soon as the semester starts though I am going to fall off the map a little, but I'm sure the semester will fly by. Its going to be a very busy one, I added up the hours and I have 10hrs of classroom time and 20hrs of clinical time per week. That is almost a full time job, that doesn't even begin to include studying and homework time. I'm excited about my classes and clinicals though!