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Originally Posted by Mom to Hot Rod  Prior to surgery, the dr explained each of the 3 different reasons for lp. Hot Rod's leg was bowing since the knee was not positioned correctly. As for the 2 other types of lp he did not see any occurence of those types of scenarios. I guess that the severity of his knee cap groove, or lack of was what was causing the issue. The dr never stated which treatment he was going to do, he wanted to go in and see just how much damage there was first. Hot Rod is only 19 mos. I don't know if this has anything to do with healing but he did say that he was young. I'm sorry to hear that poor Roxy had to endure this a 2nd time. What will they do now? Will she have to have surgery again? How old is Roxy? |
Roxy had surgery when she was 1.5 yrs old. She was first diagnosed at around 9 months. Roxy had a slight curvature to her leg structure, so that's why the Dr. decided during surgery to only deepen the groove...BUT apparently that wasn't good enough, bc as I said her legs started to luxate again. She did have to have surgery right away for the one leg and she did the cut and pin. That leg is all good now. When the other leg started to luxate, she had a bad staph infection so we put off surgery. During us trying to cure her staph infection, we discovered she has liver issues (MVD), so I have put surgery off...until...IDK
I give her Cosiquin everyday and I don't see her limp or carry that leg. She is now 4.5 yrs old, so I suppose since we have everything under control now, I should bring her back to see exactly how bad that leg is luxating. If it is mild, than I do not want to put her thru it again, but if I have to, then I guess I will