He's a beautiful cocker spaniel- it's his first birthday in a few days.
Since December he's had 2 surgeries to try and fix his Luxating Patella in his right knee to no avail the first surgery was to attach a piece of plastic to hold the knee cap in place with 3 bone screws, the second was to relieve pressure on the wound 4 weeks later as he wasn't healing.
We went to the vets today and he's been given more anti inflammatory's and we're to go back in a week or so to see if the inflammation has gone down. The vet couldn't tell if he's healing or gotten worse as he inflammation was so bad. Poor boy yelped and cried when the vet was handling his leg examining it.
He's always been such a happy, bright dog- pleased to see me and OH, wagging his whole body even if we only popped out the room for 2 mins!
He's been crate bound for over 2 months now and it's killing me each day seeing his sad eyes. He can't understand we're trying to help him, all he must know is pain.
I feel exhausted from the whole ordeal and to make things even worse we've claimed all we can on our insurance for this condition.
Our vet wants another X-ray in a week or 2 which will cost around £250.
Then potentially another upwards of £1500 surgery.
I feel beaten down, I feel like we've failed him. I got so desperate this evening I've been emailing veterinary orthopaedic specialists that have treated luxating Patella successfully before literally begging for help.
It's hard work too, constant meds, making sure he doesn't leave his cage, ensuring when he has his 5min (he's not allowed more than that) wee and poo breaks outside 3 times a day that he doesn't jump up or run whilst on the lead. He barks and cries a lot, I sit with him all day when I can and stroke him, talk to him etc.
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anxiousbundle · 01/02/2019 23:58
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