AL - Recording baby steps: Newest Addition

[Denim Deb]

You sound like you have experience wearing one.

 

[TanksHill]

your so funny.

Na, I finally gave in and bought one of those comfort collars for my Rottie. He kept bouncing off the walls and was so wide he was afraid to walk through doorways.

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[lorihadams]

Hee hee hee....the cone of shame.....hee hee hee I feel bad for them but at the same time it is so dang funny to watch them try to get through a tight space with it on....

 

[AL]

LOL
He has mastered tilting his head way up so he can get past my bed and the nightstand. I thought about one of those comfort collars but he only has 10 days (nights) of wearing it. Of course, that is when he was only supposed to have one knee operated on too

 

[AL]

Awww yay! Rio is POW... I like him better in that pic today than I do in real life
I went outside to feed the chickens and rabbits and left Rio in the house. My rabbits are getting big and I don't think my "dwarf" rabbits are very "dwarf-like! I 'll have to get them a new pen built since they like to stay together.
Anyway I start back into the house and hear "THUMP! THUMP!" and see the blinds move. My "strict rest" dog had gotten into the recliner to watch me out the window and then jumped off of it! He has been a little lame on his left leg but I am so glad he didn't hurt his right! After tending the animals I loaded Rio up (in my parents van via the wheelchair lift lol ) and took him to get his staples out. The surgeon said he looks great and to "keep up the sedatives" hahahahahaha. He did also say he would see me at the 6wk mark to take recheck x-rays and for me to let him know when I am ready to do the left knee

I am debating giving Mr. ON some of my chickens. Right now I have no use for 20-some odd hens and FIVE roosters. I just hate to send them over there since he has so much trouble with hawks.

 

[savingdogs]

Sounds like you are over the "hump" with Rio......should be downhill from here....

 

[AL]

Here's hoping! I was concerned about him being so lame this weekend, but the surgeon said he would be very surprised if he wasn't lame, it has only been 2 weeks this Wednesday. I also mentioned that he seems to be kind of cow hocked now, but the vet wasn't concerned about that either - he said right now Rio is just doing what is comfortable, but that as he heals things should straighten back up since there is no actual deformity in the knee / leg.


In other news, we are back to summertime here in NW Florida... this is the email I received
HIGH TEMPS TUES AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO CLIMB INTO
THE MID TO UPPER 90S ACROSS THE AREA. THE HOT TEMPS.
COMBINED WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S.WILL RESULT IN
OPPRESSIVE HEAT INDICES. THE HIGHEST HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED TO
RANGE BETWEEN 108 & 112 DEGREES FROM LATE MORNING THROUGH THE
AFTERNOON HRS. THE ONLY RELIEF FROM THE HEAT MAY COME FROM
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWER & THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY.

Good times. So I will be out tomorrow trying to soften the heat effects on my ancient horse, the chickens and the poor rabbits between taking my parent's dog to the vet and my own doctor appointment.... then work.... then the gym.

rinse. repeat.

 

[Denim Deb]

You can keep that heat down there! It's been in the upper 90s here. It did cool off yesterday because of a storm that took our power out w/it.

 

[savingdogs]

I'm a city girl so I don't understand the term "cow-hocked" so perhaps you can explain that one to me, but after TPOL the leg will be at a new angle permanently and the dog will get used to laying different ways to accommodate the new angle (they can't curl in as tight a ball). I mentally looked at it that surgery as taking a joint in an animal that is weak because it bends slightly and fusing it in the most advantageous position, which requires the "leveling" as represented by the L in the name of the procedure. Our dog held each leg after surgery in a new position, but the paw faced straight ahead which it had not before and I would call her more "bow-legged" by the time we did the two sides, so they use it to correct the direction that foot heads. She had more of an outward swing to her gait after both were done than a dog normally has, or rather, than SHE had prior to the surgery. But it worked fine! That leg is probably already stronger than you realize, as soon as those things knit together, he will have like a "bionic leg"........

edited for typo

 

[Farmfresh]

I am afraid the heat is creeping your direction...

Al's forecast is almost identical to ours, except our chance of rain is listed at 0%! We have wildfire alerts, ozone alerts, heat alerts and also FLASH flood warnings. It is raining hard up stream from us I guess.