Chloe got spayed on Oct. 1st

Chloe is 8 months old and overdue to be spayed. I went ahead and called my vet to set it up. The cost was 245.oo. About 200.00 more than I could afford. I went online and found a rural vet, Every Creature Counts in Fort Lupton. The total cost was 45.oo which included a plastic Elizabethan collar in case Chloe tried to chew on the incision and 3 Rimadyl, one a day for pain. I dropped her off at 7:30am, and picked her up at 4:00pm the same day. Usually Chloe wears a little chest harness which attaches to the seat belt when she goes for a ride. Since she had surgery I brought her crate in the car. She cried all the way home. The ride took about 30 minutes. I was totally freaked out! The vet said not to give her a pain pill on the day of surgery because she was already sedated. I decided to call my sister Nan Greenly, she breeds Olde English Bulldogges, and see what she suggested. By the time I got home she was howling nonstop. I opened up her crate and let her out. Total silence. Apparently; the crate not the surgery was the insult. I kept her quiet. She slept most of the day and night. The next morning I wasn't able to get her to eat or drink. I tried coaxing water and treats, she wasn't having any of it. By the evening on the day after surgery I was getting quite worried. I started giving her water with a large plastic eyedropper. She seemed ok with that. I don't think I got a lot of water in her. I made tacos that night and set aside some cooked plain hamburger for her. She got up and ate it right up. Ok, good, she's on the mend. Next day, still not eating her puppy chow or drinking water on her own. I kept up with the eyedropper and gave her some moist ham, which she again ate right up, hoping the salt would encourage her thirst. No go. I called Nan and she suggested Chloe's throat might be sore from the tube during anesthesia. Made sense. I gave her a rimadyl and about an hour later she got up and headed for her water bowl. Nan suggested Pedialyte, non citrus flavored to replace some of the electrolytes she lost. On Saturday evening she started drinking a lot of water, still only taking soft foods. I gave her a Rimadyl on Saturday as well. She went out for a poop too. By Sunday afternoon we had turned the corner. She started eating normally and going outside to potty. Downside of all of this is she really likes people food more than puppy chow! Now when I eat she watches me closely, waiting for a treat. Once she is all healed up, I won't be babying her anymore. I took her for a short walk on Tuesday, she loved getting out of the house. I am glad we only have to put our puppy's through this once.