I am not a dog. How my spay surgery was much more difficult than my patients!
I got spayed 6 weeks ago, well actually I got a hysterectomy due to some medical issues that were thank goodness NOT cancer related. When I started discussing this surgery with my doctor over a year ago, I was floored when she told me I had to take 6 weeks off of work for recovery! 6 weeks! I send my patients home within hours of surgery and they usually act like nothing happened the next day. We try to have owners reduce their activity for 12-14 days but I know in reality that does not always happen. So, I was shocked that I had to sit at home on my bum for 6 whole weeks! When I expressed this to my doctor, she just looked at me and said, "Well my dear I am sorry to tell you that you are not a dog." Ok, I guess I can concede to that! It took a year with our insane schedule to figure out how sitting around for 6 weeks would work with our lives and my career. And here we are in the home stretch of my healing. It has honestly been a great break to be able to be home for the s...