We were going to take the day off on Tuesday, But shari wanted to take trillian on a walk and bohdan thought that he should be allowed to go as well. Since
they were just going to walk to the end of the block, I thought it was worth a try, he could get out, do some moving around and then have had a little exercise for the day.
Bad idea. We made it to the end of the block, and about two houses on our return when he lay down. He was breathing pretty hard and I wanted to just leave him, but he was on a neighbors lawn who I didn't know.
And there were neighbors out and about. So I helped him get up and he made it back a few more houses and stopped on another neighbors lawn, two houses from ours.
I know this neighbor and she would not have minded his resting on her lawn, had he not started to bark and howl. It was around 11:00 pm, and out pops our neighbors head. We apologize and I get him moving. He is set to go home. there is no lawn between this neighbors and our home.
He stops and pees on the fence in between and the leg he has lifted gets caught in the chain link. Normally this would not have been a problem, but his lateral stability is till not so good. His right leg gave out and shari helped ease him down.
I took trillian home, much against her wishes... well once she realized where it was that we were going.
Came back and helped bohdan get up and we walked home. His right leg is definitely sore. I am not sure what to do to help him. I gave him Arnica in hopes that it is just swollen and sore muscles. I might try icing it again later today.
Despite all of this we are making forward progress.
we are at 15 weeks post OP. We should be further along then we are, but we knew recovery would be hard, he is overweight, and such a big guy to begin with. That mixed with the fact that I don't have him on strict leash access to the yard and I have let him run and manage himself is probably not helping, but he is so sad being confined like that... so I made the decision to take the harder route. I guess.