Pebbles is home and doing well!

[oconnorjoy]

Pebbles was spayed today and had four teeth removed. She was pretty quiet when we took her home but is much more alert now. She was checked for Luxating Patella as she sometimes hops on three legs and if you gently rotate her lower leg it pops back in and she is fine...jumping, running etc. The vet says hers is a grade one which is not too bad and she doesn't recomed surgery...says we should just monitor it...yeah!!!
I don't want her to go through more surgery than absolutely necessary. Bamm Bamm has been beside himself since we brought her home...he is stationed outside her crate and is guarding her...can't even be lored away with treats....now thats love

[davet]

here is something i have posted many times throughout the years and it has been ignored so will do it one more time...Re: dogs with luxating patellas or other "loose joint" problems, cruciates etc...i used to use this, mostly on little dogs with these problems and never had to do surgery afterwards. i may have to be repeated occaisionally but it did work--not 100% but enough that i kept using it up untill i retired....

sclerification

This is the sclerification procedure::

A scelrifying agent like sodium morruhate or scleramate is injected in the surrounding capsule of the knee, usually about 1 cc on the outer or lateral capsule, right into the fiber tissue, not into the joint…this cause scarring to occur in the capsule thus tightening up the knee joint…,,for meniscus problems etc, both the lateral and medial capsules are injected…it is repeated in about two weeks,,often a cocomittant injection of prednisone is given to ease teh irritation.

It is equivalent to the old firing of horses where a hot needle is place all around the knee joint to tighten up the capsule….that was very painfull and I suspect it is not done any more…this is not my idea but I learned it at a seminar at the Univ. of Pa. vet school from their orthopod years ago…

Modern vets may not be familiar with it cause surgery of the lateral lig is more fun and more dramatic….but it won’t hurt to ask

[oconnorjoy]

Thanks Davet....I will print this off and bring it into my vet. Pebbles is doing great today...I can see I'll have my hands full keeping her quiet for the next few days

[JMM]

I'm glad everything went so well! Nice to have it over with, huh...