Well the big day has arrived and Jez has gone in for her knee operation. I’m a total wreck at the moment – completely stressed out over it. Chris just shouts at me for being stupid and getting him worried, but I suspect that what I feel may have something to do with the fact that my Mum died as a result of a fairly routine operation. Either that, or perhaps I am just stupid.
Anyway, we saw the vet this morning (don’t think I’d mentioned that I’d asked to see him as it is a different vet to the one she’s been seeing). Pleased I did. Turns out he had seen her when she was Xrayed. Poor little soul - he really pulled her leg about for ages, but she was as good as gold. Not a whimper. He confirmed that it has got a lot worse and is dislocating almost continually now, which explains her taking a few normal steps then skipping along for a few, then walking normally for a few more, then skipping etc. Unfortunately this almost certainly means a much bigger operation. He is likely to re-attach the ligament to a position where it will hold the knee in place much better, deepen the grove in the patella and pin the knee. He says the pinning means we will have to keep her really quiet for much longer so that the pins don’t move.
I’m waiting to hear from the vet to see how the operation has gone. He was going to give her her pre-med as I left her at around 9.20am this morning, so hopefully they should be finished by now, or at least will be shortly.
In the meantime I’m making bread, washing, cleaning, sorting out credit cards etc.
Oh – and getting very close to having panic attacks.
I’ll let you know how its all gone.
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