Wow I sure have not updated this blog in a while.
Molly is a little over 12 weeks post op on her left leg. She is going great with that leg.
We took her back for a 4 week check up with Dr. Tudor and she was pleased with Molly's progress. We were able to start talking Molly for short 5 minute walks at that time. However we really could only make it down the street and back. Molly's other leg (right) was bothering her. So we still had to limit her activity.
We were to take Molly back for follow up xrays at 8 weeks post op...however we knew that we would be scheduling her next surgery soon and that in order to save some money we would have them do the follow up xrays at that time.
So we kept Molly on the anti inflammatory medication for her right leg. If she did too much she would lay down and take a break. One time she was in the front yard with me and saw a bird and took off.....she was very quick. Then she limped for a few days after that. Again we just needed to be careful. We still did not throw a ball for her yet. Her left leg looked great and we didn't notice a limp on that side it was just that her right leg was weak.
We had a vacation scheduled the end of July and were wanting to get passed that before we scheduled her next surgery....in fact we were planning to go away Labor Day weekend as well and possibly with the dogs and were not sure if we would be able to hold off on the 2nd surgery until September.
However in the middle of July we ran out of anti inflammatory meds....three days later Molly was limping really bad. It was hard to watch. We didn't know if it was her not taking the medication or that her right leg was getting worse. We called for a refill but the vet wanted us to bring her in.
We explained that we knew she needed the next surgery but were holding off because we had a vacation upcoming. The dogs were going with us too. In a perfect world it would have been great if they could have done the surgery while we were away and then Molly could have recovered and boarded at the vet....but they would not do the surgery while we were out of town. Therefore we scheduled the surgery for the Monday after we got back....August 2nd. We also got her back on the anti inflammatory...and within a day she did not limp on her right leg.
Here are some pictures of Molly on vacation...she did great...she liked walking in the creek.
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