So the last post was one week out... it just so happened that about 5 days after writing that post, we took Clewie to play with her friend at a field/ hike location. As her friend was joining her, she took off to the field to play with a group of dogs there. As they were romping and we were moving them away from the field for some private hiking time with her friend Yahtzee, she was rolled by one of the bigger dogs.... but she got up... and played a little more as we worked our way to the hike.
As we started we noticed she was 3 legged for the most part.... so we soon said by to Yahtzee and brought Clewie home to rest. We thought she had just pulled something like previous and went about our day and she rested in her crate.
I was able to head home a little early (about 4ish) and when I got home, immediately noticed she was having pain tremors..... so after a call to the vet, rushed her in. She got a very nice pain shot and they took some xrays. She had rebroken the femer completely and the bone had shifted slightly. She couldn't wait a week for surgery (by this time her surgery had been postponed on additional week)... our vet contacted a couple of surgeons and she was soon scheduled for the next evening.
So, we had a Fentenyl patch applied that night and upped her tramadol to make it through the evening. The next day, she was pretty uncomfortable, so I brought her into the surgery center so that she could get hooked up on IV fluids, pain meds and prepped for surgery.
Friday night about 8pm, we got a call from her surgeon that Clewie's surgery was successful, she did great - no complications.
Saturday morning around 8am we got a call from the overnight vet at the hospital that Clewie was being antsy and wanted to go home. So we picked her up and brought her home about 9am and basically since then she's been resting except for about 4 walks a day to go to the bathroom. The started about 5 min in length while she was still holding up her leg. She started taking a step every once in a while (less than 10 total in a day) on the bad leg since Sunday.
Yesterday, she got a number of steps in a row (like around 15) - twice on a walk. So we started extending her walks to closer to 10 minutes. She doesn't walk the whole time... she ambles, eating grass, laying and rolling around on the ground, trying to get people to come to her to give her attention.
Here is a video of her walking - she did this twice. Most of the rest of the time she holds it up and maybe uses it for a step every little bit.
I wish she did this more.. but our vet says in time she'll build confidence and do it more. We have our first appointment with a rehab place next Thursday...
But I hope to put up another update before then.
melissa
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