Day 2 – Rex boy sound asleep at last on his bed in the afternoon. After having had full episode of ‘Sleepless in Redang’ last night, Rex curling up for a nice nap on his bed.
It was barely a fun place to be in where we were last night when Rex didnt sleep one bit the entire night. Rather, he was panting very loudly and held his head up high all night, never wanting, not once to lay it down on the pillows, which we placed all around his bed.
And so we stayed awake all night with him, from 12am-6am. Well that’s actually when the lights went out even though no one actually got any rest, except well, for mom. I’m not sure what it was, but perhaps it was the trauma, or post surgical stress that rex felt so overwhelming, that affected his rest, or prevented it totally. somehow i got the feeling that rex was kinda angry at us, for allowing us to put him through the ordeal.
Finally daybreak arrives and Rex whines like nobody’s business. its just about his normal time to eat and potty so we just decide to let him out early this time. again we place his matress in the garden and without much thought Rex struggles up, whimpers a bit and staggers his way onto his choice grass patch where he sits a good minute to wee. it was heart wrenching and painful to watch this dear boy limp his way for the first time after coming home from the operation, not knowing what had happen to his right back limb, and how to go about using the 3 remaining. he walked a few steps away soon after and recoils into a comfortable stance where we feed him his meal and therafter medication.
Thanks to Mom who dropped by the clinic, Rex was given a dose stabilizers. it was so potent it got him sleeping the rest of the day. Here’s a picture of Rex with his new Hartz Gorilla squeegy from New York! Taken after a good few hours of sleep in the day *yawn*! Another picture of the rest of his new toys fresh from Petco thanks to Baby!
9.40pm
Right now we’re just waiting for rex to get up so we can take him out to potty before he turns in for the night.