Fonzi update!

So for those following along with Fonzi’s long and winding health adventures – he had surgery to remove his gallbladder the day after Christmas. It went really well and he was even able to come home the next day.

Other than problems with one of his pain meds (he vomited and wouldn’t eat whenever he took it) recovery went well. He was a pretty good patient other than being OVER IT with the cone (I called it a satellite dish – it was HUGE) & being stuck in his playpen area for 2 weeks. He started dramatically flopping and chasing his tail. He also woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed at 3 am every morning. Then 4:30. And again at 5:30. His schedule was totally out of whack because of the meds so he was always wanting to eat or go out.

I did not get a lot of sleep the past 2 weeks lol

They took biopsies of everything and they mostly came back ok. The gallbladder was diseased (which we knew), the liver was abnormal but because of the gallbladder and should go back to normal and the stomach, intestines and everything else came back negative.

He had his sutures out Thursday so he is officially free to play and be cone free!

This was our *Braveheart* victory cry after leaving the vets lol

He has a recheck in 2 months to see if that abnormal bloodwork – that started this whole damn thing – goes back to normal.

His spent his first night of freedom sleeping on our bed all night – rare for him. And because I’m just not allowed a good, stress free nights sleep – Figment peed on me. He probably thought he had us to himself with Fonzi’s 2 week confinement and had to retaliate when he realized the evil dog was back.

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This is a HUGE relief for me! This I was a super scary surgery with a very high complication and mortality rate but the surgeon was shocked by how well he did. There was a lot of debate with his surgical/internal medicine team as to whether we should do this now or take a wait and see approach. But there was a high risk of the gallbladder rupturing so we went ahead with it and I think the early intervention is what made the difference. IMHO anyway.

I’m REALLY hoping that this means I can finally move on with the new year and have some sense of normalcy in my life again – including reading and blogging.

And THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for all well wishes, good vibes and for checking in on us over the past few weeks!!!! I can't tell you how much it helped me get through all this.

 

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