Oh Patti dear friend i'm just now seeing this dear. i hope Pixi is ok! Sadie was diagnosed with LP and like you i had to have a second opinioin because the first one just wanted to go into xrays without knowing what it was. we went to Shoal creek, which i would later in life work for hte owner of
and they said yes it's LP, don't do surgery yet, let it calm down and become less inflamed and then we'll see if it goes back in. Like Pixi, Sadie could not walk on it and a few times did even fall over. she did not whine in pain, but she was obviously hurting. after a couple weeks it went back in and she started using it again. now we are seeing a VOM for treatment to continue to allow the muscles and ligaments around the injury to heal up and stop pulling on her knee.
here's the link for V.O.M. if surgery isn't going to be an option for you, financially or because it's only a grade 1-3 try this method of healing instead. surgery is our last option and thankfully for us, ours is a grade 2 upper. and we don't need surgery and VOM is working for Sadie.
here's the link:
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praying for you and Pixi tonight.