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09-11-2012, 07:49 AM | #16 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Rhode Island
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| Bobby is a real cutie!! What a brave boy, and very very lucky to have found a great home. Please keep us updated on his progress with the therapy. We're crossing our paws for Spanky too
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09-14-2012, 11:48 AM | #17 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Rosemount, MN, USA
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| Day 10 Thank you everyone for your well wishes in Bobby's recovery from FHO Surgery. Today he had his stitches removed and the doc is very pleased that he is using his leg as well as he is already. We take 4 to 5 short walks around the block a day and this has definitely helped with his leg stability. We have one extension exercise to start where I pull is leg back as far as he will allow me while holding his tummy and we do the flex 10 times, 3 times a day until he is allowing the leg to be flexed back for full range of motion. Bobby is only taking one pain med now, Metacam, so he willingly uses his leg without pain. Overall, this experience has been much better than I was imagining !!
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09-28-2012, 01:30 PM | #18 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Rosemount, MN, USA
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| Just a quick update on Bobby's recovery from surgery. He is a super duper trooper. Other than having a "swing" to his walk, he is using his leg almost all of the time now, he is no longer on pain meds, and has a giddy-up on our walks for the first time since he was rescued in May this year. He had to be in tremendous pain before surgery to be this much faster on walks less than a month post surgery !! Thank you all for your well wishes ~ the power of love is tremendous
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09-28-2012, 02:28 PM | #19 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Connecticut
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| Just saw this thread and so happy that Bobby is doing so well. My Piper had FHO surgery for Legg Perthes Disease when she was 8 months old. If you look at my album you'll see almost the same pictures of the day after surgery. Piper is now 4 years old and we take a 3 mile walk every day and you would never guess she had a surgery on her hip. Good Luck and keep up with the exercises and Bobby will be as good as new before you know it.
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09-28-2012, 02:30 PM | #20 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Usa
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| Awww what a sweet little fellow. So glad he has you to help him.
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09-28-2012, 07:41 PM | #21 | |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Rosemount, MN, USA
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I posted pictures in Bobby's album tonight that shows some of the struggles he's had since being rescued from the mill. It shows what he looked like right out of rescue up to today. I left out the really gorry pictures. Lost an ear and both eyes punctured from a mauling in his first foster home. They removed the ear because it was dangling before we got him but his eyes were badly infected. We had one of the eyes removed and all but 5 teeth shortly after. Then the leg issues. All that in 6 months time. Actually when I was going through the pics, there is one of him sitting on the floor with his front legs bowed out that should have been a hint that he had hind leg issues. And when he arrived, he walked like he was bent in the middle. Everyone attributed it to being newly blinded from the mauling. Hindsight being 20/20 and seeing how straight he walks now even with a swinging leg, the bowing in front is pretty much gone. Tonight Bobby completely forgot about his leg when he had popcorn for the first time ever. Oh my goodness, he was climbing all over and struggling to get to the bag. Do not get between a Yorkie and his popcorn apparently
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09-30-2012, 03:46 AM | #23 | |
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02-15-2013, 10:06 AM | #24 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Alexandria, VA
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| My little baby Bella is having this surgery on Tuesday (she is 6 mos old). Both my husband and I work full time. We have two dogs from the same litter -- do you think we will need to arrange for them to be kept somewhere during the day, when we are not there?
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