Tales of the Pooka
Sep. 9th, 2006 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carynbWell, he's home, and mostly sober again, now...
He was in surgery for over three hours yesterday - it turns out what they thought would be a fairly straightforward extraction, well, wasn't.
The gum around the canine they had to pull had actually started re-absorbing the roots of the tooth, so making sure they got everything was a nightmare. The same thing happened to me a few years ago, with a wisdom tooth, and I needed a root canal to fix that.
So the poor Pooka was still pretty groggy when I got him home last night. He was listing heavily to one side as he walked, even. And missing when he tried to jump on the couch or the bed. He wanted to do it on his own, though - I'd lift him up on the bed with me, he'd jump down, try to jump back up immediately, and miss.
He does seems to be sober again now. I hope I got enough pain meds into him this morning that he's not hurting to much. I'm not sure that most of the dose didn't end up on the floor, though. The vet assured me that it tasted like honey, and would go down nice and easy. Apparently, Pooka doesn't like honey. *sigh*
Anyway, he's eating, he's drinking, everything appears to be fine.
He was in surgery for over three hours yesterday - it turns out what they thought would be a fairly straightforward extraction, well, wasn't.
The gum around the canine they had to pull had actually started re-absorbing the roots of the tooth, so making sure they got everything was a nightmare. The same thing happened to me a few years ago, with a wisdom tooth, and I needed a root canal to fix that.
So the poor Pooka was still pretty groggy when I got him home last night. He was listing heavily to one side as he walked, even. And missing when he tried to jump on the couch or the bed. He wanted to do it on his own, though - I'd lift him up on the bed with me, he'd jump down, try to jump back up immediately, and miss.
He does seems to be sober again now. I hope I got enough pain meds into him this morning that he's not hurting to much. I'm not sure that most of the dose didn't end up on the floor, though. The vet assured me that it tasted like honey, and would go down nice and easy. Apparently, Pooka doesn't like honey. *sigh*
Anyway, he's eating, he's drinking, everything appears to be fine.
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Date: 2006-09-09 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-09-09 03:18 pm (UTC)Hope he's feeling better Real Soon Now.
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Date: 2006-09-09 04:32 pm (UTC)Heh. Yeah, that's pretty much the way it went. He's sleeping lots, now, and I'm sure he'll be okay soon.