[Lovetodream88]

Callie is 4 and she had the surgery on her right back leg in November and we didn't have a choice of if we could wait or not because her ACL was tearing. Her knee was a grade 3. The first two weeks was the toughest for me because the first few days she was so groggy, wouldn't eat, wouldn't drink just nothing and she just looked so sad and pitiful. Coming home with out her after I dropped her off for surgery was terrible too I cried and cried. The whole two months and even now I am having a problem getting her to eat as much as she should. I keep Callie in a puppy cut and had her shaved very short a few days before her surgery and after the two months when she could finally get groomed boy was she shaggy. The nurse at the vet hospital gave me a pill shooter (i know that sounds so bad but its not as bad as it sounds there is no shooting of the pill) and I am so glad she did because sense Callie was not eating there was no way to trick her with the pill and that's the only way to get her to take tramadol. I really suggest doing the physical therapy after wards our physical therapist walked Callie on the treadmill in the water and would give me some papers with some exercises to do to help her strengthen her leg. After three weeks we had to start physical therapy and walk her 5 minutes a day twice a day then the next week it was 10 minutes a day twice a day and it goes up by 5 minutes every week. With the cold weather the walks were slightly difficult but I just bundled her up in her jacket and me and mine I also fell in the snow once and that was painful. I don't know if you saw my posts or not but after Callie was cleared for activity and was returning back to normal activity she started to limp all the time and hold her leg up constantly so we went to the orthopedic surgeon and he said she was definitely in pain and sedated her for xrays and then had to pull the pins out and be on pain meds for a week as well as leash walks for 3-5 days. How she is acting now and walking so good I am very glad we got the surgery done but for a while when before we knew the pins needed to come out I felt so bad like a made the wrong decisions and she was going to be in pain and limp forever it depressed me. Now I cannot stop smiling when I see her walking great. Sorry he is going to have to get the surgery.