Miller after surgery

Poor Miller had major surgery on Tuesday for his torn ACL. He tore his ACL back in April at the beach and we finally figured out that's what the problem was after first treating him with pain pills and taking x-rays to check for hip dysplasia which was the original diagnosis from the vet. Our vet ended up sending his xrays to Gulfcoast Orthopedic and they were able to diagnose the problem correctly. They had to cut his bone and put a metal plate in his leg to fix the problem, which was caused by a weird angle in his joint that he was just born with. He came home yesterday with a soft cast that will stay on until Saturday and a morphine patch that helps the pain but makes him feel disoriented. He is supposed to wear a cone on his head for the next 2 weeks when he will go back for a post op check up and will hopefully be cleared to walk around a little more. Until then, we have to keep him really still. Of course, I can't take seeing him run into things with that cone on, so we have taken it off during the day when we can watch him closely and it just goes back on at night so he can't get to his leg while we aren't watching. It breaks my heart to see him hobble outside to go to the bathroom! And last night at about 2 am he got stuck backwards trying to get in his crate with his cone on his head and I had to practically crawl in the crate with him to get him turned around which resulted in him falling down on his hurt leg - it was a long night! It should take 6-8 weeks for a full recovery, so we've got a bit of a long road ahead, but when it's all over his leg should be good as new. Needless to say, last night and today have been a little tough with watching him and listening to him whine constantly on top of little Lia's crying : ( Thankfully its almost the weekend so Philip will be able to help a lot on Saturday and Sunday. We can trade off so neither of us has to handle both Miller and Lia at the same time! And my mom is coming back to town on Sunday, which will provide me with some much needed relief and help me get caught back up on some things around the house and get a few more naps in :) Here are a couple photos of Miller from last night...