Mele

Goodbye

2007-03-21T16:06:00.000-07:00

This will be the last posting on this blog. I took Mele for her two month checkup and follow up x-rays about two week ago. Everything looks great and we have been allowing her a lot more freedom. She can go potty by herself and she is having a lot more supervised playtime with her friends.
I have also formally adopted her!, as of my birthday March 14th and have officially changed her name. Her name is now Daisy-Mayhem(and actually has been for quite a while) and if you ever see her roaring through the house swinging her squeaky toy from side to side you would appreciate how well the name fits.
On a far sadder note we have to say goodbye to one of Daisys friends, Cooper. As mentioned before, Coop had surgery on his front legs and was doing fine, till a couple of weeks ago when he suddenly had a seizure and died. Daisy wishes she could have raised a little more Mayhem with you, goodbye Coop.

This little Piggy

2007-02-13T18:02:00.000-08:00

I would like to thank world famous glass artist, Jennifer "Smasher" Wanzong for donating this stained glass pig she made for my mother to Daisy-Mayhem's relief fund. I have put $300 in Mums name into the slush fund, thanks again, Mum loved it.
Daisy-Mayhem nee Mele has reached a new milestone, she can now be out without her belly band, and can take short walks (or drags as I like to call them). She is doing fantastically well and desperatly wants to romp with her pals but we still have a long way to go before we can let that happen.
Daisy would like to give a shout out to her friend Cooper who is recovering from surgery on his elbows.

A little less metal

2007-01-29T12:28:00.000-08:00

Mele is doing much better, on Saturday she had her staples removed and managed the whole ordeal without to much drama. She is once again sleeping on the bed instead of in her jail and apart from wanting to get up and play at sunrise is not to annoying. Now that the staples are out comes the hard part, keeping her from bouncing off the walls, she feels fine, wants to play and thinks we are mean not to let her out and romp.
Mele would also like to say "Bite Doctor Walls, I did!" to her friend Cooper who is having surgery on his front leg(s) today, hope things go well Coop.

Another step backwards

2007-01-15T04:10:00.000-08:00

Mele managed to pop her joint again, this time while she was sleeping *sigh*. So it's back to the Doc again for more surgery, this time it looks like he will be replacing the socket itself with a different type. The surgery takes place this afternoon so more later.

Disaster

2007-01-11T03:41:00.000-08:00

The unthinkable happened on Tuesday night, while Mele was out for her late night tinkle time she managed to pop the ball out of the socket on her replacement hip. She has been back to Dr Wall for surgery and will be back home today. The Doc found scar tissue in the joint area which probably caused the joint to pop, he has removed it and also lengthened the neck of the socket so hopefully this will not happen again. Sadly this means another recuperation period and the postponement of the surgery on the right hip joint, Rats!.

Merry Christmas

2006-12-26T09:19:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas and thank you to everybody that has donated to Mele's surgery. Mele has made a remarkable recovery and is now leading an (almost) normal life. She's chewing up shoes, tearing down decorations and humping her friend Sam, yup, back to normal. Shirlee will be taking her back to see the vet who operated on her to check out the leg, and if possible will schedule the next surgery for as early in February as possible. If that is the case she will have two good hips in time for summer, just hope the pool will be big enough.

one month and counting

2006-12-03T02:28:00.000-08:00

It has officially been 4 weeks since her surgery. We are now going potty without a belly sling and have started taking two short walks a day.
She is quickly making her way to china through her Tempur Pedic mattress. She did ok with me being at work 1/2 days this week as Mickey still has his ears and Bobo still has his squeeky.
Mele has been feeling a little despondant since her favorite person in the whole world left for England, so as a treat I took her to the vet and had x-rays of her hip taken, she has now completely forgotten about him hehehe.

Don't call me Scar face

2006-11-22T17:39:00.000-08:00

As you can see from these before and after photos, Mele is healing very quickly, which is good and feeling better than ever, which is bad. She is dying to play with her friends and is taking out her frustration on the inside of the jail, bedding is being tossed and mattresses shredded. We give her as much outside time as we can and she is sleeping with me on a mattress on the floor but I leave for England in a week and if she persists in feeling well, Shirlee will probably have to sedate her when she goes to work. Sounds just like the seventies.
Have a great Thanksgiving everyone.

A stitch in time

2006-11-13T16:41:00.000-08:00

Mele has had a very good week, we took her pain patch off on Sunday night and by Tuesday she was off of both antibiotics and pain pills. She even had a little company in her crate!. Mele has taken to jailhouse living much better than expected, she has developed signals to let us know when she is thirsty and when she needs to go out, though the latter has *many* false alarms and we get to stand around in the garden watching the rain falling in the pool.
When I am in the office she gets to hang out under the desk or exchange nose kisses with Bear through the glass. I think at this point her hip is already is feeling better than it did before the op, the downside being she wants to romp and play and we can't let her *sigh*.
Just got back from the vet where we had her staples pulled, the incision has almost completly healed and her hair is growing back nicely. I'm hoping it won't be to long before I can take her on a car ride that ends in a park instead of a vets office.

The big BM

2006-11-06T12:14:00.000-08:00

Mele had a good weekend, it may seem strange to get excited about bowel movements but when they are not happening it's cause for concern. So yippeee we have big doody, would post a picture but am getting flac, some people seem to think it would be in bad taste, huh, tell that to the New Tate.
Mele has a new favorite toy, thanks to Lacie, it's a huge Mickey and at this point he still has his ears.
We have made some changes to Mele's crate, it now has a nice bunny baby bumper (say that three times fast), makes it a lot more comfortable for her and goes nicely with her teletubby blanky.

Mele - Surgery and recovery

2006-11-04T10:51:00.000-08:00

Mele's surgery was on the 2nd of November, everything went well and we picked her up the next day. She was a little groggy from painkillers but was pleased to see us, we were thrilled to see her looking so well but a little groggy from being told she would have to live in a crate for 16 weeks! aaagh.
The drive home was uneventful and much to our surprise went in to her new home without much trama. Even though she is still pretty sedated we can tell that crate life is going to be very hard on Mele especially not being able to romp with her buddies. We are planning to have her in the office with us whenever we can and will re-arrange John's bedroom, putting the mattress on the floor so she does not have to sleep by herself.
While her leg is obviously still very sore, she is able to walk on it with the aid of a belly sling. We are taking her out to the back garden every 4- 6 hours and she has been able to pee on a number of occasions, though "number 2" still elludes us.
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