been to vets today for Hugo's 2 week check up everything is looking ok no more lampshade on him so that's good, he's still on sedatives for the next couple of weeks to try and keep him calm as he keeps trying to charge about as though he's completely better, he was walking about normally after about 4/5 days.
i think i'm going to ignore the vets advice as he said he can now have 15mins lead walking up to 4 times a day which seems a lot to me. i know of someone else who's cocker had the same opp but at a different vets and they were told no exercise for a full 6 weeks and then 5 mins a day after that. so i think i will let him have 5 mins a day for the first week to see how he gets on.