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We were up at 5:00 a.m. because the baby, Oreo, is getting fixed this morning. I didn’t even know she was broken.
We were up so early, Oreo started getting suspicious. Then at 7:00, we all piled into the car and headed to VCA Hospital in Orange, with Oreo conducting a full interrogation the entire way:
“Where are we going? Why are we going? And why does nobody seem concerned that I’m apparently broken?”
I think she was suspicious because she’d never seen us dress up like this; maybe she thought it was Halloween?
What is a spay operation?
During a spay, Oreo was under general anesthesia, so she’ll be asleep and won’t feel the operation. The veterinary team will monitor her breathing, heart rate, and temperature.
The vet will shave and clean the area, make a small incision in her abdomen, and remove her ovaries—usually the uterus is removed too. Then they’ll close the incision with stitches, sometimes beneath the skin, and keep her warm while she wakes up.
She may be sleepy or a little wobbly afterward. The clinic will give you instructions for pain medicine and keeping her quiet, and she’ll need to avoid licking the incision while it heals. The vet will let you know what to watch for and when to call if anything seems wrong.
We dropped Oreo off at 7:45 am, then headed to the gym to get beat up again! This time we think we were prepared. With our new outfits, the torture devices are useless! We found out that doing push-ups in the 120-pound120-pound armor was a challenge, to say the least.
Since we arrived a little early, I did seven miles on the stationary bike, and when I got off, I saw both tires were flat!
It was funny to see our trainer carrying oil cans like in The Wizard of Oz!
We went home after the gym and waited for the doctor’s call about how she did. We shed the armor and put it back in the “Gym Workout Closet”.
Mary made a nice lunch, and we worried together all afternoon!
We got the pickup call around 4:00 pm, so we raced to the hospital, and she was “happy” to see us. She was quite loopy,py so I picked he up and put her in the backseat bed.
The rest of the day, we just sat and watched her and her cone! We finally took it off and kept an eye on her so she would not lick the wound!
Before going to bed, we all walked in the backyard, and she did her business, albeit in slow motion.
We watched TV for a while, but we were so busy watching Oreo that we hardly paid attention. We did watch “Sleepless in Seattle”, a great movie!
Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 romantic comedy-drama directed by Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
Hanks plays Sam, a widower in Seattle whose young son calls a radio show hoping to find him a new partner. Thousands of miles away, Baltimore journalist Annie (Ryan) hears the broadcast and becomes intrigued, even though she’s engaged to someone else. Their story unfolds through letters, coincidence, and a famous meeting at the Empire State Building.
The film is known for its warm, bittersweet tone and its playful nods to classic romance movies, especially An Affair to Remember. Ross Malinger also plays Sam’s son, Jonah.
Oreo and I went outside for one last visit before going to bed. She wore her cone to bed, but it didn’t make her happy, so we took it off as soon as she woke up and watched her like a hawk.
