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2nd day to be knocked out to get her throat checked as clearly something wasn t right yup she had a foxtail stuck in her tonsils there was another that had abcessed in the side of her throat but they weren t able to get anything from there since she was being knocked out i asked also for a nail trim and for them to check her leg while she was sedated for any drawer movement nothing though the vet said that there was some lateral movement whatever that means but no drawer movement so she has something wrong but not yet needing any further action she came back from the vet very groggy falling asleep standing up trying to watch me soooo cute i had to lay her down so she didn t hurt herself but no more throat clearing so that was taken care of three vet appts since the knee began bothering her and three different vets but the concensus is to wait and see i take her to the park daily for 1 1 1 2 hours and she barrels about rock climbing swimming playing and ball chasing and is not even limping anymore so maybe it was some sort of strain if something bothers her i give her 1 4 of a rimadyl and by the following morning she s right as rain and i ve not even given her any for a couple of weeks now so your guess is as good as mine needless to say i m not worried right now about it though of course she is limping once morel but i should say not limping from her knee now she s done something else darn dog i found another foxtail in her front paw which with a bit of a struggle she let me remove but then she was limping madly actually hopping on her back paw operated leg poked around her toes for yet another foxtail but nothing later that night upon re examination i found a pretty nasty slice in her paw pad probably from the rocks at the dog park or more likely some broken glass as the cut is a clean slice poor pup does it ever end in other news my latest obsession wardrobe_remix on flickr i started a flickr group for the people that knit my designs to post their pictures then one day was wearing an outfit that i liked so it ended up on w_r and now i think everyday about what i m wearing working at home it s easy enough to get sloppy especially when my primary outing is to the dog park silly to look too nice there you only are going to get covered in mud and slop from the goofy happy wet soppy dogs but i don t know w_r is fun it s made me look at what i wear more carefully and care about what i put together even on a day when i don t want to document my clothes so the picture it s a wardrobe_remix one my plan is to include freia in each one i ve only done a few but it s a start if a late one comments 2 wow it s been a while april 17 2009 filed under chesapeake bay retriever house and home tplo uncategorized walking the dog knitwhits 9 23 am freia finally got her freedom and for two months was the happiest sweetest happy go lucky pup no more sneering at other dogs just play play play made me realize how much the injury has affected her this last year sad to say though about 3 weeks ago she injured the other knee though till then she never showed any signs even under sedation the additional stresses can and often do take out the good knee the ratio of dogs is some 50 go on to require surgery on the other leg so i m bummed out but not entirely shocked she is bummed out too we still go to the park and i let her run about but if she does more than an hour and a half of intense play then she s out for the count and very limpy the remainder of the day though right as rain the following morning though i ve not had confirmation from the dr yet i recognize the signs the soreness and limping after exercise and toe touching the rest of the time and of course out at the park running about you d never know there was anything wrong with her such a drag i have a call into the doctor today and i guess i will take her in next week for confirmation and schedule the surgery for the following week it s a bit tricky as i go to ohio for tnna in june this would put her 6 weeks post op when i have to go but her doggie day care can do the job of walking her at that point she will be mobile and the hardest part will be keeping her calm more than anything the timing of the surgery is tricky as i have a series of shows from june on so i really have no 8 week stretch when i will be here at least if i do it now even if it seems early then it s done and she will be able to enjoy the summer i have to keep in mind though this injury is not yet as severe as the first one it won t get any better short of keeping her on a leash which only disguises the injury it is no cure and i certainly don t want to keep a 3 year old high energy dog on a leash for months on end again i promised myself that if the 2nd knee went i wouldn t wait the rest of my life has been quite a ride too i m referring to it all as a series of unfortunate events nothing major but an endless river of annoyances garbage disposal broke replaced new one broke computer crashed beyond repair and wasn t backed up for 3 months but that wasn t the worst of it i also lost over a year of data for my company s accounting fortunately taxes had been done and i have everything printed out but i will be spending the next few months re entering it all this time i m backing it up lesson learned car needs a service again when doing the data entry for the new laptop i accidentally deleted a day s worth of work luckily this time i had it backed up but still sheesh oh and the new laptop paid for with my tax refund in one door out the next the new laptop that i received just a week ago needs to have the keyboard replaced luckily i have on site service and though they tried to tell me that it was easy and i could do it myself i figure the way things are going right now bad idea spent 20 on new bulbs for my under cabinet lights in my kitchen still didn t work bought a new set of under cabinet lights did at best a mediocre job of installing them the wiring is sort of funky had a friend come over to help me pull the fridge out so i could remove the last of the wiring of the broken lights only to find that the plug had simply become dislodged and my old nicely installed lights actually worked just fine guess what i ll be doing this weekend replacing the new ones with the old ones sigh wrote a list of 10 goals for knitwhits been already shot down on 2 of them ouch but i m not giving up on that i m stubborn that way and will pursue these ideas further i d give you more specifics on them but they aren t really things i can talk about in a public forum still stings though so see what i mean nothing life shattering but just sort of tedious and endless at least i haven t stubbed my toe lately that s always an eye opener comments 2 under the knife freia s tplo week 7 8 january 9 2009 filed under cats and dogs chesapeake bay retriever dog training tplo uncategorized walking the dog knitwhits 12 20 am oh brother so much for willpower well christmas was the beginning of my downfall i think for about another day or so i kept freia in her xpen but probably daily have given her more and more freedoms it started with letting her watch me prepare dinner with her lying down on the rug nearby then she got a case of the zoomies one day and tore around the house like a 4 month old puppy she survived that just fine though i thought i would keel over i kept watching her for a limp but nothing so then one night i let her have the whole bedroom instead of only access to her sleeping area another time i let her hang out outside the pen in the livingroom but kept the stairs blocked off you see where this is going right the one thing that i did notice and this was a big giveaway that she was feeling good is that her behaviour went completely down the tubes this week she was very snappy to other dogs becoming extra territorial and bitchy watch out freia s back in town well not if i have any say in it i realised that i d completely slipped in the training reminding of good behaviour since her injury in may i let it slide not so good so this was also a crackdown week in the training dept lots of kibble rewards for ignoring other dogs on our walks by day 3 she got it now she s back to signalling me when she sees another dog not by growling at them but by turning to me for a treat good girl this isn t going to make her an angel overnight but will act as a reminder of what is and is not acceptable behaviour what i love about this is that now a week into it she s no longer the dog freaking out she s the good dog ignoring the other dog who s barking it s head off as far as she s concerned she has more important things to do than worry about other dogs on our walks dogs to her mean something good might come from me to her if and only if she s good and ignores that dog you gotta love the trainer that came up with this it s so simple and works like a charm i almost want to tell the other people with the crazy barking dogs but i m still getting too much satisfaction out of having the good dog new year s eve some doggy parents came over for a glass of champagne freia had not seen one of the parents the owner of her best friend rufus the dog who sadly was killed in a car hit run earlier last summer since her injury back in may she was sooo excited to see him she brought him her bones gave him lots of smoochy kisses and tail waggles and finally just curled up as close to his lap as an 80lb dog can get and contentedly gnawed another bone well since that night i just decided to continue letting her run free in the house a little bit of guilt and concern for getting into trouble with the surgeon at my appointment this week but then i would look at her thick bony grown in rock hard knee and it just seemed ok she occasionally had a bit of limping which would quickly pass and i chalked it up more to a muscle ache than anything else so today was the big day day 56 it s been 8 weeks since the surgery the first two were hell trapped downstairs with spiders crawling over us at night uncomfortable sleepless nights for the both of us lots of medication for her multiple times a day by day 5 we d cut back one of the three meds by day 10 we were done with the antibiotics after 30 days the antinflammatories were tapered to one pill every other day till finally two weeks ago no more pills it started to feel like we were getting somewhere i m so glad to have found the ortho that i did he encouraged exercise within limits which helped keep us all sane somehow in the beginning 5 minutes was all she wanted and at week 3 10 minutes was just right having an adaptive dog has certainly been very helpful for me she s been a most excellent patient she s definately a little frightened of the ortho though she doesn t hold it against any individual there she looked at me when i led her in as if to say what again how many times do we have to do this is this gonna hurt poor thing i dropped her off at 8am and came to pick her up and meet with dr sams at 11 30 he said that she looked like a million bucks and proceeded to run through her freedoms and restrictions basically it ain t bad she can do almost anything on leash her main restriction is no full out crazy play at the dog park she can hike swim walk play gently all within the limits of her not as fit as she was body as she rebuilds muscle my concerns to watch for are her achilles tendon and patellar tendonitis since it s been such a gradual yet consistent increase in her activity she has so far not shown any signs of soft tissue injury he did also caution me that someday she will probably tweak her knee and may need rest and nsaids for a couple of days along the lines of how my own knees are after 30 years of skiing if the tweaking lasts more than a couple of days then to call him for a check up but that s all she wrote day 1 day 56 day 1 day 56 side view in another 4 weeks he wants me to come in for one more xray she still has some bone growth to come in yet but overall she s done great he expects her to be toe touching for another 6 weeks or so but that also six weeks from now she can wait for it wait for it be off leash at the dog park again woo hoo that will be one happy day for this not so little dog comments 4 under the knife freia s tplo weeks 5 6 december 29 2008 filed under cats and dogs chesapeake bay retriever tplo walking the dog knitwhits 11 03 pm well i m going to combine these last two weeks as for all of week 5 it continued to be more of the same freia went up to 15 minute walks 2 or 3 times a day we continued with her weight training the little weight wrapped around her operated leg to make her high step like a lipizaner pony and use that leg muscle looks a bit silly but it works by the end of week 5 i was starting to get a bit concerned as it really seemed like not much was changing she s been walking well since the start but was still a bit wobbly hobbly in her xpen what a difference a few days would make it could have been the change in the weight used going from 2 oz to 4 oz or maybe it was just time but at the beginning of week 6 i started seeing little things that were good very good and encouraging just a little more excited a little more bounce in her step a bigger squiggle and wag in her tail and as the days have worn on and on this change for the better is sticking she was definitely still a bit gimpy when she was only making little steps that seems to exaggerate her limp more but on the move well she really was on the move she started a new trick cute in a lap dog unusual to say the least in an 80 pounder now when she s excited she gets up on her hind legs and does a little leg hopping act a bit like what i imagine a dancing bear to look like yup she s feeling pretty good since it doesn t appear to be hurting her i ve let her do it rather than force her back down and risk injury that way she seems to be no worse for it in any case week 6 was also christmas week which meant a road trip 2 hours north an unfamiliar environment and her nemesis young children acepromazine became my friend once more safely ensconced behind two stacked baby gates with her bed multiple favorite bones and she was pretty good she got in a few cat naps but was mostly just kind of dopey my little 5 year old nephew even gave her a treat or two and she was tolerant of him and she might have admitted to liking him if it didn t completely ruin her street credibility all in all she was very well behaved almost grown up didn t go completely nutso though she was as always in complete adoration of my mum and stepfather the meaty bones she gets from them probably has something to do with it she was also very happy to have a bit more freedom around the living room later that day and the following morning then little devil when i had my back turned she climbed out of her xpen only partially closed onto the very slippery polished coffee table i caught her nose in the cookies sigh the following morning once again waiting till my back was turned this o...