Your generous help took Itzl from walking like this
![Limping](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6837979291_670322c057.jpg)
and this
![Limping](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6837979359_1485e62557.jpg)
on a painful but ultimately successful journey.
The night before his surgery, he took his BFF out for BBQ on one of his gift cards.
![Distracted](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7056/6880882215_a224ea388a.jpg)
Then he went here
![The Clinic](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7062/6891606983_902b9978cb.jpg)
and spent some time being disapproving of barking dogs while waiting for his surgery.
![Itzl Waiting](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7056/6891613023_bd8a2616b3.jpg)
He was taken back to surgery by a friendly vet tech,
![Nurse Jenny taking Itzl for Surgery](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7037/6894325961_d16f93e20c.jpg)
shaved and prepped
![Surgery 011](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7046/6894326795_e632822eed.jpg)
operated on
![Prepped For Surgery](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6894327313_cbb900fa75.jpg)
and then brought out to me all bleary and doped up, a successful operation.
![Resting](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7182/6894393913_60d6bd92d4.jpg)
But things went wrong and he received an accidental overdose of metacam, which meant a tense few days in the vet ICU, waiting to see if he'd be damaged by the overdose.
He was a good sport about most of it.
![Monday](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6914487819_a529c9df49.jpg)
Getting to go home and sit in his monkeybed was almost the highlight of his day.
![Monkey Bed!](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/6916494145_b3630f7d68.jpg)
The highlight was knowing his BFF Xoco was there to watch over him,
![Xoco checking on Itzl](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/6773137660_59011e6875.jpg)
and be silly with him.
![Xoco Being Cute](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7206/6938173763_11deaa13c4.jpg)
He was glad to get back to work, even if he was still a little too dopey to fully alert.
![Conserving Energy](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7182/6941800149_fec96742c7.jpg)
He learned to walk in the water treadmill
![Water Treadmill](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7199/6797834396_5f68219acb.jpg)
![Water Treadmill](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7050/6797834796_0cc74324da.jpg)
and eventually to like it.
![Enjoying a Wet Walk](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6818652140_b82e9dd550.jpg)
He learned to stand on a balance board
![Balance Board](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7062/6943949103_7e176bbb0a.jpg)
and conquer it like a champ.
![Balance Boarding](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6818663078_93b524b382.jpg)
He learned to prance on all four legs again
![four legged strut](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6821242240_0ca71fc0b0.jpg)
And thanks to all the wonderful people at DKos who helped heal this injured little dog, he's back on the job, alerting me to sounds I need to know about.
Don't you love that serious little "are you listening to me" face?
![Taskmaster](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7053/6833081046_5613ab0a44.jpg)