Summer update: A week since she came home

I'm sorry I haven't updated on Summer.  She's just so tiny and vulnerable and I've struggled to get around to updating.

This was taken the night she came home.  She was a bit extremely drugged out and she was really freaked out.  It was horrible to see because it seemed like she had lost all her trust in the world and she seemed to have thought that we had abandoned her.  In this picture she is lying on her wound.  Her leg was amputated right next to her body, so there will be no stump or anything, she just has no back leg on her left side any more.

Summer is actually sitting on my computer chair, on my pillow.  She jumped up there when she arrived and seemed to stay there for four days.  By Friday she was doing much better though and by Saturday night I knew she was definitely on the mend.  When I got Summer and Seth, they were too young to be away from their mother that's for sure.  At night, they used to balance themselves on my arm as I slept (I sleep on my side with a stuffed toy tucked under my arms for support).  Of course, they no longer way half a gram each and can get quite heavy these days!  Summer is lighter than Seth and I can sometimes tolerate her.  Anyway, Summer had done a whole lot of hiding under my bed when she came home from the hospital and I knew she was feeling safe again when she came out to sleep on my arm.  But she kept slipping off!  So she decided to sleep in my hair and when that didn't work, she decided that sleeping on my head would do!!  By this stage I was hoping she would recover quickly so that I could go back to locking her out of my room at night!

Stephen took this picture on Monday.  Molly, being a Lab, gets quite hot and doesn't often sleep on her bed.  We just thought it was so cute that Summer was brave enough to take up Molly's whole bed.  You can see just how tiny she is!  There is no sign of Seth here.  He can obviously smell death / illness / injury / hospital on Summer because he has been hissing at her and swiping out at her a lot.  He is scared though.  I often call to him as I see conflict about to happen and he will look to me and give an uncertain little meow.  I think it has been very confusing for him and in a way he is still pining for the sister that he thought he lost.  It's hard to make heads or tails of it because these little animals don't have human emotions, but they are definitely scared and confused at the moment.

We know it will all pass with time though.  We just need to be patient.