Feb. 25th - The Pick Up

I hardly sleep. I wake up at 4 and stay awake. Chris gets up at 6 and we start cleaning house and doing laundry, regular Saturday chores. We check the clock frequently, we can call about Bunny at 11:30. I go grocery shopping to kill time.

I get home at 11:15 and we call at exactly 11:30. Dr. Grant was with a patient, we need to call back in ten minutes.

Ok.

11:41. We call. We can pick up Bunny at 2 p.m. Great. We feel relieved that she is ok. We have lunch and leave at about 1:30.

We arrive a little bit before 2. Dr. Grant is with another patient who is going home after surgery too. In the meantime, we pay our bill and receive instructions. Grand total is $3,504.25. We are given antibiotics (twice a day for 14 days) and liquid pain meds (once a day). We can start with the antibiotics tonight and the pain meds in the morning at about 5-6 a.m.

We are called back and Bunny comes out to us. Her back legs are bandaged and she is drugged, but wags her tail when she sees us. I get teary.

Dr. Grant calls us into a room and recaps the surgery and what he told us last night. He drew us a diagram of what he did. He expects a full recovery by summer. First check-up is next Friday, March 2. We can come between 10 a.m. - noon. She may have a bandage change or may wait until the two week check. At the last minute, he gives us a bottle of Osteo-Form. They are huge chewable tablets, He said Bunny needs to take two tablets twice a day to help with healing.

As we leave, Chris asks me if the follow-up appointments were included (good question!). We ask. We are told that there is no charge for return visits, but that they charge if they do something. If they need to change the bandages it's $25 per leg and more if they have to sedate her. Ok. We can deal with that.

We get in the car and drive home.