Our little Mandy

Tuesday afternoon when we arrived home from doing errands, we found Mandy limping badly. We rushed her to the vets and discovered she had a torn ligament in her hind leg. She had surgery yesterday morning. What an emotional time! I just picked her up and she's doing ok but Dr. said she has a long road ahead of her. She actually tore two ligaments in her leg..we still don't know how and at this point that a non issue.
Now to recuperate. I put together, loosely!, her old crate that we haven't used since day 2 of adopting her. She needs to either be on a lease or in the crate to restrict her activity. Ice packs and physical therapy will be the norm for the next month. But that's ok. I'll do anything for our little girl. Right now she's laying next to me on the couch resting. Every so often she'll wine which means she's in pain. That just kills me...
We did have a really nice BD for Kris yesterday..the kids decorated the house with balloons (which Amber blew up all but one!) and signs the kids made. Amber also made a cake and wanted to keep in a 'lime' green theme because that's her mom's favorite color. So we added blue and yellow food coloring to the cake mix. A great green cake! Auntie brought dinner from PF Chang's which is one of Kris' favorites restaurants. All in all it was a great day but I have to admit i was exhausted. i didn't sleep at all the night before worrying about Mandy and just felt physically whipped. I had also been carrying Mandy up and down the steps before her surgery to go outside so the old hands and bones are getting a good workout. I didn't stay long after dinner so hope the kids understand. We were actually in bed at 10 last night! And I did sleep quite well. So today will be a reading or TV day sitting with Mandy. I'm going to let her rest a bit then I'll put on her ice pack. UGH...