WOW! Amanda, I am so glad everything has gone well for your baby. Just know that I'm sending prayers up for him.

I have been thinking of you and Ranger all day today. I am glad he is on his way home with you. Prayers for a good night and a healthy happy tomorrow!

yay!!!!

SOOOO HAPPY to read your update girl! HOORAY for Mr. Ranger!!! :bravo: So glad that everything went well and that he will soon be starting his recovery. He'll do GREAT!! :D :thumbup:

I will be watching for your update tomorrow morning. Just take it easy girl and don't rush to get back here to us....we all know he's in good hands! ;) I know you will be exhausted, as will he, so just whenever you can do an update is fine by me...no rush! :)

Give him a little kiss for me...and from Tator as well :hug: They can recover together! :D ;) :thumbup:

YAY! :D:D:D

Good news! Ranger is on the way to recovery! Hang in there, my friend, and I'm so happy he did well! :)

Yippeeeeee!!!!!!! :cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer:

YAYAYAYA SO happy to hear that Ranger is out of surgery!!!! i've been waiting all day to hear :D Hope your night goes as well as it can :) Can't wait to hear about him in the morning :D Ranger we love you!

Yay!! So glad to hear that Ranger is out of surgery. Wishing him a quick recovery.:getwellso

So Glad the surgery went well for Ranger:D......now....on to recovery!!!:D

Looking for an update but guess it's too early.

Hope the three of you had a restfull night, the best that can
be expected anyhow.

Hope your all sleeping:dogzzz::dogzzz::dogzzz:

YAY Im sooo happy for Ranger and Ryder and you! Im am so glad it all went well and he is on the road to recovery! :) Woohoo :)

Update
 

First of all, I have to say THANK YOU again. Yesterday was such a weird day, I was almost feeling anti-social and had a real hard time until I had Ranger back with me. I am sure it's normal. But I have to say logging on and checking this thread honestly gave me what I needed. Thank you so much for the support!!

On to Ranger.... well we were called at 3pm that he was done and coming out of anesthesia nicely. No, that's not exactly how it went. We had stopped into an equine hospital so hubby could bs with the vet up there, and I had left my phone in the truck :eek: I got a weird feeling at 2:58 and realized I didn't have it! I ran to the truck and had JUST missed there call. They called both hubby's and my phones, but didn't leave a message :confused: So I immediately called back and the second I identified myself, they said "hold please." :eek: Well talk about FREAKING OUT!!!!!!! I was on hold for minutes, imagining the worst. It was AWFUL!! Finally the surgery tech got on an apologized, and said I could come get him in and hour, and that he was doing great. Whew. :animal-pa

So we got there right at 4PM, and we went into the exam room for our discharge. They put our xrays on the big screen, and from the first second I saw them, I knew in my heart he was much worse than he ever showed. The surgeon said it was really good we got him fixed when we did, because he *really* needed to. And great news- NO ARTHRITIS!!! :D I have the xrays on disc and I will be adding them to this thread just a bit later.

The second they walked in the door with Ranger his eyes lit up and he tried to get to us. I don't remember anything after that, except for holding my little boy. It's such a good strategy to go over discharge first :rolleyes:

He was really alert and wanted outta there! We got all situated in the truck and started our drive home. He was awake most of the way, but a little out of it. He had been given an epidural so he couldn't feel his back legs. He also has a fentanyl patch (cut to size) and is on Clavamox with Torb (as a pain med- it's an opiate) once a day.

The evening was pretty hard, but not hard enough to not want to eat! He ate some kibble in the truck on the way home, and half of his dinner (all that was offered to him) when we got home. He was so scared when he realized he couldn't move his back legs :( and I didn't blame him. He was super crabby and growled at every noise. I finally put him back in his crate, with a blanket over the top and he finally settled down to rest. He slept all night. This morning we got up and took him to potty. He actually was walking (just a few steps but still!) on both back legs. He went potty and ate his breakfast really well.

Then we went back to bed and slept till 9! :eek: I took him to potty again but he didn't need to. I put him on a huge thick blanket on my lap and tried to sit on the couch with him, but he got really grumpy when the garbage truck went by and wanted back in his crate. He is sleeping now so today I hope will be the worst.

Here are some pictures of his leg and my little boy after surgery. First two pics are of his left leg, which was the worst (def. a grade III). I haven't gotten a pic of the right, but it looks exactly the same. The third pic is of him trying to stick his whole head in the kibble on the way home! The fourth is a pic of him finally sleeping last night, on his therapeutic mattress inside a snuggle sack made by his Aunti Delisa. :thumbup::thumbup: He really seems to like his bed.

Yikes my update was looooooong :p

Here's another pic from this morning. He looks much brighter, but still not nearly my little Ranger-Bug. You can see his eyes are still wacked out from all the drugs. I can't wait a week for him to feel better!!