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Well my eight year old Golden Retriever (Rosie) had to get surgery today [September 17, 2008]. We took her this morning at 8:00 and she has been at the vet all day. We have no idea if she is staying over the night at the vet's yet, but most likely we are picking her up around 5:30 pm. My dog had to go to the vet because she has a ruptured ACL in her knee, which is basically a torn ligament. If we didn't get this surgery my dog would be permanantly crippled in that leg, and she would later get horid arthritis. Meh when she gets home she has to wear an E-Cone, and she HATES those >.< <span style="font-weight:bold">What is a ruptured ACL? When the anterior cruciate ligament ruptures (is torn), the joint becomes unstable and the femur and tibia can move back and forth across each other. The anterior cruciate ligament is most commonly torn when the dog twists on his hind leg. The twisting motion puts too much tension on the ligament and it tears. This often occurs if the dog slips on a slippery surface, <span style="text-decoration:underline">makes a sudden turn while running</span>, or is hit by a car. Obesity puts too much weight on the knee and overweight dogs tend to have more occurrences of ruptured cruciate ligaments.</span> The underlined words are what happened in Rosie's case, and to fix it they go in and make a new ligament with fish wire.<br><br> I will post pictures in order from old to new. I don't have any pictures of her when she was limping, and I kill myself for not getting these photos, but you will just have to do with the ones after surgery. I guess I will post the last photo of her before she got surgery, but it won't be any of her limping. I won't be able to get every photo, so I don't annoy my dog to death >.<, but if you have any requests or questions I will try and answer them!<br><br><br><br><span style="font-size:150"><span style="color:red"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:bold">U P D A T E S</span></span></span></span><br>September 17, 2008- 8:00 am: We take Rosie to Brightwood Animal Hospital for her big surgery!<br>September 17, 2008- 6:10 pm: Rosie arrives home from a long day with battle wounds to show everyone.<br>September 17, 2008- 7:40 pm: We take Rosie to go outside for the first time. To do this we have to help her walk by holding her up with a towel around her stomach. This took about 15 minutes to do, leading in a succesful pee xD<br>September 18, 2008- 2:55 pm: Last night was so bad for Rosie. All she wanted to do was go to sleep but I believe she thought if she went asleep the surgery would happen again and she would be in pain because every time she dosed off her head shot in the air and she started crying for me or my mom. In order for her to fall asleep you had to lay next to her, but eventually we had to go to bed, and in our own beds. The whole night she was crying, but we couldn't do anything to help except give her her pills.<br>September 19, 2008- 6:15 pm: We noticed that Rosie was chewing at her wounds from all the scratches that had formed on her leg. We tried putting on the E-Cone, but no hope at all. She tried everything possible to get that thing off of her. In the end we had to put a knee sock on her leg, when we got home there were no more scratches ^_^<br><br><span style="font-size:150"><span style="color:red"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:bold">P H O T O S</span></span></span></span><br><img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/rosie3.png"; alt="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/rosie3.png"; class="bb-image" /><br><img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/rosie5.png"; alt="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/rosie5.png"; class="bb-image" /><br><img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/rosie2.png"; alt="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/rosie2.png"; class="bb-image" /><br><img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/rosie4.png"; alt="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/rosie4.png"; class="bb-image" /><br><br><img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar6.png"; alt="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar6.png"; class="bb-image" /><br><img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar5.png"; alt="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar5.png"; class="bb-image" /><br><img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar4.png"; alt="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar4.png"; class="bb-image" /><br><img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar3.png"; alt="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar3.png"; class="bb-image" /><br><img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar2.png"; alt="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar2.png"; class="bb-image" /><br><img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar1.png"; alt="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/tikie06/scar1.png"; class="bb-image" />
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