Odie is in the house! Welcome home! After one week of surgery, the surgeon, Dr. Holsworth, lets us take Odie home for rest and recuperation. Odie will need about 8 weeks of recuperation before he has completely recovered from surgery.

Molly will have to give up her 4×4-exercise pen for Odie. I sure hope she doesn’t have any accidents, but she’s been really good during the day especially since I’ve been coming home for lunch to let her out. The next 8 weeks Odie is in the jailhouse.

Chloe, Molly and even the cat (Inkspot) are happy to see Odie again. They kiss him through the bars of his cell. Inkspot is really happy since he misses Odie chasing him every night. I’m sure Inkspot will visit Odie tonight and will try to goat him on to chase him.

We need to keep Odie sedated and on pain killers so he doesn’t get too excited. He’s still in pain and cries out if we pick him up the wrong way.

Odie’s first pee is very sad for me. It’s the first time I get to see how he walks or actually doesn’t walk. He still doesn’t know where his feet are in space. This implies that the signals are not getting from his brain to his feet and back again. I thought he was in better shape.