The Dog Blog http://darreng.com/basil Diary of post-operative recovery from Canine CCL Repair Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:35:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 He’s done it again ! http://darreng.com/basil/?p=868 http://darreng.com/basil/?p=868#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:12:50 +0000 http://darreng.com/basil/?p=868 Well after the Lateral Suture procedure and then his TPLO a few years ago, Basil was returning from the garden when he pulled up his left rear leg like he’d been shot.
My heart sank but as the vet warned, there is a high statistical correlation on dogs with previous stifle CCL issues going on to rupture their other cruciate ligament.

We took him to the local vets (Longmead) and the vet was able to pretty much confirm the rupture but wanted to do some imaging under sedation to confirm and then suggested a cage and plate TTA which he performed on Thursday the 5th – unfortunately Basil’s Birthday. (We’ll make it up to him.. he can have another Birthday another time like the royal family.)

Basil came home on Friday 6th February with some severe bruising since the vet had to carry out a fairly invasive capsule procedure due to a totally ruptured CCL and a lrge lateral meniscal tear. But the TTA cage implant and titanium plate fitting went very well.

Pics to follow.

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]]> http://darreng.com/basil/?feed=rss2&p=853 0 Saturday 6th November http://darreng.com/basil/?p=841 http://darreng.com/basil/?p=841#comments Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:57:37 +0000 http://darreng.com/basil/?p=841 Walking better today

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]]> http://darreng.com/basil/?feed=rss2&p=841 0 Friday 5th November http://darreng.com/basil/?p=837 http://darreng.com/basil/?p=837#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:01:25 +0000 http://darreng.com/basil/?p=837 05:45 – Very bouncy as he saw his 220g of breakfast on the counter as he went for Toilet Break (W)

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]]> http://darreng.com/basil/?feed=rss2&p=837 0 Thursday 4th November http://darreng.com/basil/?p=835 http://darreng.com/basil/?p=835#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:00:03 +0000 http://darreng.com/basil/?p=835 Bail to vets today – for x-ray and sedation. Very stressed by the time we got to Devizes and gums light pink.

We went and had a walk round Devized until they rang us at 1pm to collect him at 2pm.
On collection the nurse said that while the x-rays showed that the bones were coming together they were not healing as fast as they had hoped.

Basil now weighs 36.5Kg and is a little under weight !

We took a woozy dog home and gave him 100g of biscuit, a rich tea biscuit and let him sleep it off.
Around 4pm he had another 150g of dinner – and a toilet break at which point we discovered he was lame in his leg.

Rang McQueens and Ian rang me back – he said probably just a little sore from manipulataion for the x-ray.
Suggested we provide him with a dose of Metacam to provide comfort and call him back if no better tommorrow or Saturday.

]]> http://darreng.com/basil/?feed=rss2&p=835 0 Tuesday 2nd November http://darreng.com/basil/?p=832 http://darreng.com/basil/?p=832#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:37:45 +0000 http://darreng.com/basil/?p=832 07:30 – Toilet Break  (W+P)

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