Update on Hip Displasia/FHO Surgery

[ladyjane]

And not even a full moon.

[JessnStoli]

Thank you for posting the pictures of Mylee. I just dropped my Stoli off to get the FHO surgery and did not know what to expect. I hope your puppy is doing well.

[Cha Cha]

Originally Posted by JessnStoli

Thank you for posting the pictures of Mylee. I just dropped my Stoli off to get the FHO surgery and did not know what to expect. I hope your puppy is doing well.

Jess, welcome to YT. I hope your baby's surgery went well too. Mylee goes in for her staples to be removed tomorrow morning. I am anxious to see what he thinks. I don't think she is progressing like she should but we will see.

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by Cha Cha

Jess, welcome to YT. I hope your baby's surgery went well too. Mylee goes in for her staples to be removed tomorrow morning. I am anxious to see what he thinks. I don't think she is progressing like she should but we will see.

If she is just now getting her staples removed, there is really no change that you would see yet. It takes them a while to use that leg after the surgery...sometimes even months! These little pups can do well on three legs, so it is not a pressing thing to use the one leg. In time I think you will see big changes!

[Cha Cha]

Originally Posted by ladyjane

If she is just now getting her staples removed, there is really no change that you would see yet. It takes them a while to use that leg after the surgery...sometimes even months! These little pups can do well on three legs, so it is not a pressing thing to use the one leg. In time I think you will see big changes!

Ladyjane: Thank you so much for that encouragement! That's what I keep telling myself, but I think I expect an instant miracle, and I know better. I will say this, before her surgery she wouldn't even let me run my hand over her hip area, but now I can sit and very lightly massage that area and she actually acts like it feels good. And she is not exhibiting real pain like she was before and her overall appearance and attitude is better so it's not like I don't see progress. I just can't get impatient.

[ladyjane]

Oh, I am SO sure she is feeling better. Avascular necrosis is very painful.

I still catch myself expecting overnight success when I have pups who have surgery. I have a little one now, Heidi, who had surgery on her knee eight weeks ago. She is still limping. I have to remind myself that she is only a tiny little thing and she was so used to carrying that leg and getting around just fine that it is habit. In time she will begin to use it. Rookie, one of my other fosters, is a perfect example. He came to me last October with a fractured leg that had been uncared for for six months. He had surgery to repair it and it is only recently that I have begun to notice that he no longer picks that leg up when running! I remember the vet telling me it could take as long as a year for him to regain full use.