Love on a wire then off

[sergebroom]

Today I took Freya, aka the Viking Love Goddess, to the vet for some surgery. Last year, whe she jumped off our bed, she took a bad fall and completely ripped out the cruciate ligaments of one hind leg. She went thru surgery that her doctor had not had to do in over 20 years. She recovered and now walks normally although she's shown no inclination to sleep on our bed since then. Last week though, my wife noticed a hard lump near that leg's knee so I had the doctor take a look and told me what it was: unbeknownst to me, the repair work done last year had involved a nylon wire, to reinforce her leg while it was healing, and one of the clamps holding the wire had apparently come off. So she went in today, and they removed the wire and both clamps. She won't be putting any weight on that leg for a few days, but she'll be fine.

Comments

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

In her case they had no real choice because the clamp holding the wire was moving around. Does you wire bother you a lot?

[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

I got full range of motion back within three months of the cast coming off, but there's still discomfort and fairly frequent stiffness. The odds of that knee becoming arthritic went way up the moment the repairs were done, too.