GypsyRose Ty will be having his surgery today 12/7/04 I have to take him to the vet at 11 am, his surgery will be at 2 pm. His problem started when I notice he was hoping around on three legs I thought he might have fallen and hurt it, so I watched him for a few days, wasn't getting better, so I took him to the vet, and they did x-rays and on the x-rays u can see three black spots on xrays so they ran more test with the lab and they came back with the Legg Calve Perthes Disease. So in October he had the surgery. On his followup I told the vet that he is still not using his leg so he took more xrays and said the surgeron didn't take enough of the bone out it's still rubbing bone to bone so we need to go back in and cut that bone out, well at the point I was so upset, because the reason I did this surgery so this wouldn't happen the bones rubbing againist bone, the cost alone was enough to give me a heart attack lol....So the vet said we will have to go back in, so today is the day and I'm a nervous yorkie mom but they said that after the surgery he will be fine and he will use the leg like nothing ever happen to him, the only thing is that I can't breed him so the next thing I have to do is get him fixed. and they won't do it at the same time either...U can read more about this disease at.
http://www.vetinfo.com/dencyclopedia/deleggcp.html
Will let u know how his surgery goes when I pick him up.
Thanks Cindy