Major's Surgery

Major tore his ACL. Poor guy! It was quite the surgery he had to have in order to fix it, and it will be quite the recovery too. The surgery was last Wednesday.

 Day 1 after surgery-his first day home. He had to stay overnight at the vet. This is our makeshift confinement area in the living room for him.

 This  picture captures it all I think...he just looks so miserable. You can see kind of here where the incision is-it's on the inside of his hind right leg. It was pretty red, swollen, and bleeding day 1 after the surgery.

We had instructions to ice his knee for the first 3 days after surgery. ha! How do you do that? Dogs don't like having a cold pack placed on a leg that hurts! He did pretty well, and I will say we had awesome ice equipment leftover for Jordan's multiple knee surgeries.

We ordered this playpen thing for him. It has been and awesome purchase because it keeps him contained. The only activity he can do for the next 12 weeks, yes 12 weeks, is go outside to the bathroom. That's an absolute ridiculous request for a dog so this playpen will help a lot I think.

Oh and he broke in the new playpen within 5 minutes by puking everywhere in it! It was so gross! I think he is just upset so he puked once and has had the runs since we brought him home.

A good view of his partially shaved rear end. He also has irritation on his rear end from the shaving and  from having the runs so we've been having to doctor that up with diaper rash cream. As you can tell so far from this post, this has been a full-time and exhausting experience so far!

Picking him up from the vet. He's got this little harness thing we put around him to keep him stabilized so that back leg doesn't slide out ever.

So this day was about the extent of his cone experience. He doesn't lick the stitches while we are home, but you never know what they do when you are gone so we tried the cone once after this day. We are glad we looked in the window to check on him after we left the house because he was up jumping around bucking like a wild horse to get it off! So we don't do the cone anymore.

I tried to capture the x-rays with my phone but it's not a very good picture. They cut his shin bone and reshaped it and then added in a plate and 6 screws. Yikes! 

Video of his stitches the 1st day after we brought him home.

Video of how he walks.