OY! What a summer!

Sorry I haven't written in so long.

I've been having a rough time. Mom says this surgery isn't going as well as the last one. I don't care what she says, though, I'm running and jumping whenever I get a chance, I just only don't step so much on my other leg. A while ago-- maybe a few weeks after surgery, when I was coming in from sitting outside for the sunset, I fell on the concrete steps, but I was a smart dog and I didn't put my legs down. I know how mom worries about my legs, so I just rolled to my side a little and landed on the cement step with my ribs. OUCH!! Well, anyway, I keep telling mom I'm fine and let's go for a walk and let's go swimming and let's go find Shinta and play in the woods, but she says I'm walking funny, which means we go back to the doctor and look. This time we went to the doctor who lives close by mom. She's our new doctor and mom says she's the best regular vet we've ever had. They let me go in a room with soft carpet and nice dog beds and play nice music if I want to relax. That way I don't slip on slippery floors and nobody puts me up on a metal table or makes the table move up and down on a switch or anythng. Mom says if the vets we went to last year had been helpful at all or even listened to me, then I might not be in such bad shape now. I'm glad mom isn't mad when we leave the doctor now. And the doctor even gets on the floor to rub my belly when I visit and calls mom to check on me!! Her name is Dr. Wells at Washtenaw Animal Hospital, and if any dogs in Ann Arbor are looking for a good doctor, she is very nice and she listens to dog moms, which not all vets do. If you are in Muskegon, however, mom can't recommend any-- best to go to Dr. Prelsnik in Grand Haven, because we couldn't find ANY vets who would look at my legs, and then they broke.

Anyway, the X-rays Dr. Wells took looked fine, but she agreed I'm not healing properly. I need to go back to Michigan State. My surgeon will be back from vacation in July, and mom hopes in the meantime that I'm just taking a longer time on this surgery. They don't know what's wrong, except I keep getting in trouble for being too active. They think maybe it's my back from that fall, so they put me on new medicine that makes my back feel warm and soft, and it makes me a little drowsy. Mom says that's a good thing, but I don't like it because I don't want to play as much. I don't think mom understands how hard it is to sit still when it's summer and I've been being so very patient for six months. Kaajal, my roommate goes on walks, and yesterday, because Kaajal's mom is on vacation, my mom walked her and not me, and I was really MAD.

This morning I woke up late and hadn't had my medicine, so I did rolls all over the carpet on my back and tried to eat my tail. I haven't done that since I was a very small puppy, and I forgot how much fun it is. I must have been feeling pretty good, and mom laughed and didn't yell at me for playing!! It was a good morning. Now I've had my medicine and it's time for a nap. Mom says if I sit very still and follow my rules then we can go swimming in a few weeks. I just want to know how long that is. Human weeks seem very long!