He was greeted home by a kiss from his big Yellow Lab brother and is now resting comfortably thanks to all his pain medication. He'll be on crate rest for the next 6-8 weeks with rehabilitation starting at 2 weeks. Although he does not have any pain sensation in his back legs he's urinating all by himself which is great news. It also means that we don't have to manually express him as long as he keeps it up. Feces just comes when it comes so we're expecting to have to clean up quite a few messes. We're going to get him some diapers but for now since he's crate bound we want to let him recoup and get re-used to his surroundings before adding anything else that is likely to stress him out (Like Diapers)
My husband is currently making a doggie bassinet that's the same height as our bed so he can sleep next to me safely at night. I'm not sure whose spoiled more Cody or Mommy...
For those Doxie parents curious about the expense, our cost was just over $6000.00 - Keep in mind that includes the stem cell therapy we opted for as well as some time spent in the Emergency Room. The good news is when we adopted Cody we immediately purchased insurance through Healthy Paws in preparation for this very thing. We are not expecting the stem cell treatment to be covered of course but all the basics should be reimbursed back to us.
More to come....stay tuned!
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