Re: Canine knee surgery Was: Open Message to Dental Practitioners who frequent SMD

From: Roy Brown (roybrown_at_sympatico.caNADA)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 15:02:12 -0500

"StovePipe" <StovesNewAddy@sympatico.DOTnet> wrote in message
news:1go9r86.8uxnuh1umewqoN%StovesNewAddy@sympatico.DOTnet...
| Roy Brown <roybrown@sympatico.caNADA> wrote:
|

| >It took 3 series of staples and sutures (the last being some
| > fancy thread work) to finally get the incision to close.
|
| Ha.... IIRC, you had said that there was only one of the two surgical
| vets who could sow worth a damn and he wasn't the one who did the
| surgury, and so the threadwork must have been $$$$.

There were only a few that had been trained in this "copyrighted" procedure. Her
regular vet does a much nicer job with sutures and closure. That is where we
brought her back to in the end. His charge $30 CDN.

| >(2 courses of ABx) She
| > is increasing load bearing on the limb, muscular atrophy is noticeable. Gave
a
| > scare a couple of weeks back, got excited when someone came, and her rear
end
| > collapsed. Limped much worse for a few days.
|
| Maybe a bit of muscle tear. I would imagine those same leg muscles are
| solicited in just about every movement a four legged would make.

I too think it was soft tissue. I was hoping it was not a fracture of the small
projection of bone left intact where the patellar tendon attaches to the tibia.

| >
| Ha!.... I bet she'll escape your constraints long before that.... She
| ain't a stoopid canine.

Oh she has, careless human owners. I had a few palpations late one night, went
downstairs for a mid night snack. Must have left the pocket door open a crack.
She came racing down the stairs as soon as the toaster popped.

| The kids like it. They've been asking questions.

Glad to hear it. 

-- 
Roy
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