Saturday, March 7, 2009

She's home!

We brought her home tonight around 5:30! Hallelujah! She isn't her same self of course. My son said tonight that we have a 'Forest Gump' dog. For the first 40 minutes at home all she did was walk around the inside of the house....truly...that's all she did. She walked circles, always going to the left, around every inch of the house. She isn't very steady on her feet so she fell down a couple of times and when she found her food dish she leaned against the wall and just put her head down in her dish and ate and ate and ate! Daisy tried to get Lucy to play. Daisy would bark at her and jump around Lucy to get a response, but Lucy really isn't interested yet. She doesn't respond very well to her name, in fact, hardly at all yet - but it's early. I read online that canine head traumas can take weeks or months to recuperate. We're okay with that because she's had such a remarkable recovery so far. She's had one potty accident in the house so far. We're just keeping a real close eye on her and I imagine that's the way it will be for a long time. No jumping on the furniture and no stairs. We feel very lucky to have her with us. There are some wonderful powers at work letting us bring her home, including the medical and spiritual kind. More updates later, but she will be at the store again soon! Thanks again everyone who called, emailed, and stopped in at the store. Lucy would love all the attention, if she could understand. :)

1 comment:

Suz said...

Cindi,
I'm so glad to see that Lucy is back at home. I was also happy to read from your blog that you had been bringing Daisy with you to the hospital. I imagine that her familiar scent was a comfort to her. Good luck in her recuperation. I know that with such loving people she will progress each day.
Suzi