Well it’s been nearly 2 months since Blue went in for her cruciate ligament surgery, the first 4 weeks were the hardest time for both her and us.

For the first 3 weeks I spent most nights sleeping on the sofa in the front room to keep her company and to ensure she didn’t try climbing onto any of the furniture, I can honestly say they were the most painful 3 weeks I’ve ever spent, my back was killing me by the end of it all, but it seemed to do the trick, as Blues recovery since then has moved on leaps & bounds.

By the time we went on holiday Blue wad managing about 10-15 minute walks with no I’ll effects, which meant we could actually go visiting places while we were in Dorset, we’d been worried that we would end up spending the whole week sat in the cottage we’d rented.
Over the week we managed to visit Salisbury, where we spent a pleasant day walking round the Cathedral grounds & checking out the shops that made up this historic town, we also got to visit Swannage, Bournemouth, Lyme Regis, Dorchester & even got as far as Sidmouth, still never managed Monkey World though, we didn’t think dogs would have been allowed in, shame really as this is somewhere I would like to visit one day.

Anyway Blue came on leaps & bounds while we were away and managed all the walking that visiting these Dorset entailed, after we got back we’ve been carrying on with Blue exercise regime & are still building up her muscles slowly but surely, it’s hard to think that 10 weeks ago she couldn’t walk without limping, and just a short 8 weeks ago she couldn’t put any weight on her leg at all due to the surgery, now when you see her walking you wouldn’t think she’d had anything wrong with her.

The cost so far for all her surgery and aftercare has been about £3500, she’s still got to have at least 2 more visits to the surgery for x-rays etc, so I imagine by then the bill will be nearer £4000, hey but at least we were insured so have only ended up paying about £2500 for the op so far, but I don’t care how much it would of cost, I’d have found some way of paying it, after all she is our little Princess.