Saturday, June 23, 2007

TPLO Tips #4 - First Week


With all the beds we have for him, and he chooses to lie like this ... what a crazy guy!

Well, Webber has made it through and is doing just great now! It was a very draining week, on both of us.

Back to his goofy self. LOL

Just seeing the swelling and the amount of redness really upsets you. But it does go away and really quickly really. I would worry if you feel it is very warm.

ICING: Getting his leg iced 4 times a day. Well, I don't think I would like it either if someone put a cold pack on a sore, even if I knew it would feel better after the initial shock. What we did, it does take two:
a) Got him lying on the mattress on floor on good leg.
b) Steve holds his head down and encourages him with some treats
c) Raised the TPLO leg a bit a put a small pillow between it and the good leg.
d) Put a cold gel-pack (flexible gel) in a pillow-slip (that I sewed to fit).
e) Placed a towel on top of the TPLO leg and then another gel-pack on top of that.
f) Leave on for 10-12 minutes.
g) Remove carefully, as they are probably asleep at this point, :)
That way we ensure both sides of his leg were getting iced.
Icing did work for us. We noticed a huge difference after the 10 minutes.

APPETITE & FLUIDS: Infection and additional medications may have caused Webber to stop eating and drinking, however in reading the OrthoDog forum, lack of appetite and not drinking seems to be a common problem. Tonight was the first night that he actually was 'excited' to get his dinner and ate it all w/o having to hand feed him. Even better he drank almost a full bowl of water w/o any coaxing. I was really more concerned with the liquids as I did not want him to get dehydrated, especially as he was fighting infection.

Eating dinner for the first time on his own.

Here's some things that worked for me, much of it I start feeding him from the bowl in my hand until he gets going and then he seems to get into the spirit of things:
a) semi-frozen home-made chicken soup
b) yogurt
c) hamburger/rice mixture with some broth in it
d) tuna with the broth in the can
e) we play a game with his kibble ... so he thinks it's a treat
f) watermelon, canteloupe, oranges
h) gator ade :) he didn't like the pedialyte
i) milk

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