I went by the hospital to drop off Moose's food (forgot to leave it in the AM) and he had just gotten out of surgery so I was lucky enough to talk to the doc again. All went well 'it was text book' and Moose was waking up and seemed fine, in some pain but they were managing it well. He seemed to tolerate the anesthesia fine. As for the joint, the ligament was in fact fully ruptured as expected, but the meniscus was in tact which will hopefully make things easier from here on (assuming it stays that way). He said arthritis was there but minimal. While I am relieved to hear good news I have my skepticism as always. Would they tell me if he was in a lot of pain or had a problem during the surgery. Still I am a little reassured that he has made it this far.
I will pick him up at 10am so tonight I need to get the house ready to receive a crippled hound!
I took some video of his bunny-hop gait so I will hopefully see the improvement after surgery.
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Awww his bunny hop is sad! Glad it's over though.
ReplyDeleteReferring to your earlier post, do you ever put down the car windows for him? Just a thought. That is usually what Benley wants when he whines and stares out the window. Based on a bad first experience in my Prius, I can only put down the windows enough for his head/neck to stick out though.
When we are on the highway I don't like to do it b/c it makes so much noise and he won't put his head out when we are moving anyway, but if we get stopped in traffic I will b/c that is usually the only time he cries and it makes it a little better (still does not stop it though). In this case I did not want to encourage him to stand so I left it up. This is the first trip he has cried from the minute we left key largo regardless of whether we were moving or not!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a harrowing experience with Benly! Glad it ended ok...