1 Month Ampuversary!!!!
Hi all,
rare moment of cuddling between tripawd beauty and the quadrapawd beast
This is a couple of days late (technically Lyndon had surgery on November 10th), but we are celebrating his 1 month ampuversary. I’m not sure who was the first to coin that term, but my family got a real kick out of it. I can’t believe that it has already been a month… and then in some ways it feels like it happened a long time ago.
We’re still having some challenges with Lyn, basic stuff like the slippery deck, his quadrapawdsiblings and the licking. He has an obsession with the little muscle pad that the surgeon left so that he can sit more easily and comfortably. I don’t think it hurts, but he really likes to lick it… he’s licked all the hair off of that little area!
Incision area as seen on day #7 of recovery
Incision area as seen today
The other problem is one we’ve been combating for years, and I thought since this was a dog site that maybe someone had some insights or suggestions. Lyndon has the driest skin of any creature I have ever seen. He always has flakes of skin just sluffingoff of him… it’s like living witha poorly groomed snake. The worst thing is that it makes him very itchy. It wasn’t that big a problem before, but now that he has no scratching power on one side its becoming more irritating for him. Poor baby… Yesterday he reached his head down to his bad side (like he used to do when he was scratching his head with his foot)but nothing happened, so he looked at his incision site all confused, like “why aren’t you scratching me, didn’t you hear me say I had an itch?” poor little guy.
So sleepy
Still, I’m so proud of the progress he has made and what a strong little man he is. I’m so happy that he came into my life and that I get to keep him…Lopsided and picked on by the siblings, but happy and now healthy.
December 13th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
lyndon, you are doing great!!! do you add fish oil to your diet?? when gayle was younger, (pre cancer and amp) we feed her science diet sensative skin food, cause it had alot of the ‘good oils’ and stuff…it really made her shine and she stopped having so many flakes. maybe look for a food or suppliment made for that…good luck, we know it’s so sad to see them wanting to scratch without a scratcher!!!
charon & gayle
December 13th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Way to go, Lyndie! What a handful he is- evern with 3!
Kenmore’s 1 month ampuversary was the day before Lyn’s- he’s doing well also.
Congratulations on the progress you both have made- and many more days & years of puppy luv.
mandy & Kenmore
December 13th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Gayle beat me to it: Fish Oil. I used to give it to Mousie’s big sister Shelli. She had dry skin too.