As promised, here is the update on Rascal (my dog, who resides with my parents). Just to update everyone who might not have seen my last post. Friday morning we found out that at some point Rascal had sprained his ankle. So after being prescribed some meds, Mom loaded him back into her car at the end of the work day, and took him home. Well, sometime over the weekend, he re-injured himself. When Mom got up to go to work on Monday morning, she noticed that his whole leg was swollen. Rascal then got loaded back into the car and taken back to the vet with Mom.
Rascal-Monday afternoon at the vet. You can see how swollen his right front leg is.
Later that morning, I got a phone call letting me know that Rascal was back at the vet, and it turns out he had broken his leg, up by his shoulder. It also turned out that there was a spot on his bone, which the doctor thought to be a tumor, the starts of bone cancer. So we had 3 options. 1.Take him to another vet and have an orthopedic surgery done to repair the bone. 2. Remove the leg, and send a piece of the bone out for further testing. 3. The worse one...have him put to sleep. Well, we decided for option 2. We thought it was the best. Rascal is only 10 years old and this is the only health issue he has ever had, so we saw no reason to put him to sleep. With the surgery to repair the bone, it would cost way to much, and there might be the chance that it didn't work because of the possible bone cancer. With removing the leg, we at least got Rascal out of pain and are able to learn more about what might have been wrong in the first place.
Yesterday morning, Rascal had his surgery. Mom called me as soon as he was out of and let me know everything went smoothly. He was starting to come out of the anesthesia and already moving around a little and sitting up. When they went to take a sample of the bone for testing..they discovered that it was so deteriorated and almost jelly like. He was really lucky that the break wasn't more severe. So, that's where we are with Rascal. We should know something more from the testings next week. Hopefully everything is okay now. When I went to see him today he was just as happy as ever. Even let me take him outside for a few minutes and walk him around in the sunshine. He is already healing quickly and is pretty quickly adjusting to having three legs...even if he does wobble just a little bit.
This was a few hours after surgery. Up and happy. Feeling much better.
Both of these were today. Outside, walkin', enjoying the sunshine.
Rascal, ever since you were a puppy we knew there was something about you that we would absolutely cherish. You are silly and awkward at times, but in the end of the day just love to play and be loved. You are so brave, and even after it all, continue to love and have a smile on your face. You really are a trooper.
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