mom2jesse Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 After Murphy going lame on his front left elbow (which has ED) just before Xmas (but is now ok) and finally got the call fromt he vet yesterday to say they don't want to x-ray him and will leave it as they think it may have been more of a sprain/twist rather than the ED so that was good news. Hubby took Murphy & Jesse out for a walk this morning, and came home about 30 mins later (I thought to myself that was a quick walk) and then saw Murphy hobbling in, he is totally lame on his back left leg, not putting it on the ground at all , Hubby said Murphy and Jesse had been playing with a little border terrer and then Murphy went and had a sniff over towards a fence and the next thing Murphy gave out an almight yelp, hubby said he'd never heard anything like it :o , apparently even other people who were walking came over to see if he was alright, hubby thought at first that maybe Murphy had stood on some glass and had a look but no, it really does seem that Muprhy may have snapped his cruicate ligament , for those of you that don't know, Murphy snapped his other cruicate in April last year and had a TPLO op and then got an infection and was not right until end of September 2005, it was a very emotional time for us all, watching Muprhy going through what he did and then with all the xrays etc I've spoken to the vet and he too says it's sounds as if its the cruicate but am to rest him and up the Rimadyl and take him to the vets on Monday, if its just a twist he will be much improved by Monday, but I've got a horrible feeling I remember when they did the other op last year, they said there was a 70% chance the other would go within a year !! Poor Murphy, he has had such a cr*p time of it, and he's such a happy dog, he jsut doesn't deserve this Please can I ask you all to send healing thoughts for my special dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfpenny Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Sending Reiki and love and hugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2jesse Posted January 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Thank you Edith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 sending healing thoughts,my staff girly diesel has had 2 weeks rest for a stretched(we hope trying rest before xrays)cruciate.i heard her yelp and was almost sick,it was in a similar situation playing with delaney my other dog i never want to hear her yelp like that again!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest carolt Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Oh poor Murphy. My Brodie has also had TPLO. Her 2 nd cruciate went the day before she was booked in for the first TPLO so she had to have one done then wait for it to recover enough to have the second op. It seemed like we spent the whole year nursing her. My poor baby but she is so good now it was all worth it. Brodie sends Murphy a big soppy kiss Carol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest half-way-home Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Oh poor Murphy, our rottie had her 1st cruciate done as a 3yr old and her 2nd as a 4yr old then a front toe removed with a growth she is now 11yrs old and doing great, unfortunately we lost her son a year ago to bone cancer he was 6 and now her daughter is diagnosed as a wobbler it breaks my heart to watch her but she is not ready to go yet. Good luck with Murphy thank god cruciates are repairable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
our little godsend Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 I have no knowledge or experience of this condition Thats all I can do is send some healing thoughts and lots of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaffieLover Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 gentle for Murphy and you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rykat Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Lots of to Murphy. Our big fella Dino had his left cruciate done many years ago and when we adopted him the vet said the other might go .... year later it did, HOWEVER, the vet said she didn;t think it had actually snapped and the recovery time was the same even if he had an op, so we gave him total rest and full dose Metacam (muich better tolerated than Rimadyl). That's how we started hydrotherapy with him, after approx 6 weeks the vet said we could try swimming to help build the leg back up and over a year later he's great, still goes swimming and not on any Metacam Ask you vet to prescribe Metacam ... it has less side effects. Positive thoughts that it heals as well as Dino's has Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2jesse Posted March 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Hi Rykat Thanks you for your well wishes. It turned out that Muprhy had snaped the other cruciate and had the TPLO op on 1st February). The specialist did a few things differently this time to try and make sure there was no post-op infection. Murphy had his 2nd TPLO op just under 5 weeks ago now and he's doing really well, much much beter this itme round (no post-op infection) and in fact Murphy is at the vets today for x-rays (a week or 2 early) cause he is doing so well on the recently op'd leg that the vet wanted to x-ray it and if all is well we can resume gentle exercise/hydro We did try Murphy on Metacam initially but it really did not agree with him whatsoever, whereas with Rimadyl we have had no troubles and he had a blood screening rdone recently to check all was ok and it was fine. Am off now to go and collect Murphy and see what the outcome of the Xrays is - fingers crossed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redditchlady Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Everything crossed here for you and Murphy. Kazz x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muriel Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Sending loads of Reiki, hope all's well soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2jesse Posted March 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Murphy had his xray yesterday but the leg has still not healed so more xrays in 4 weeks but heis not allowed walks in the meantime but he is being referred to a Hydro pool for doggies - he's gonna love that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madstaff Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Awwww poor murphy,shame you dont live nearer to where i work id love to swim murphy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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