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AGAIN
Dogger is back on the antibiotic treadmill. I think at this point her urine might actually be a cure for many common infections. I hate this because she was just getting back to her normal bouncy self after her last knee issue! She was doing really, really well and I was even thinking of taking the crate down again and I was entertaining thoughts about letting her off leash in the back yard. That was then.
This is now. She's on 2000 mgs of cephalexin and 400 mg of etodolac, which she had been off for a grand total of two days after her last crises a month ago! The poor dog can not catch a break; If it isn't mystery injuries its raging infections. The vet couldn't do an exam of her knee because it was too swollen and full of fluid for him to feel anything. Again, but this time, this time the fluid is also outside the knee, so its a bigger joy than the last time. The last time it wasn't messy, (note to self, buy dark sheets for crate) The vet also wants Dogger to be in her crate for the next week or so to keep her from exacerbating anything and he wants to see her again in a week after the ABT has done its job so he can examine her knee for real. It also doesn't help that she yelped when he tried to manipulate the knee. I also yelped. I don't think this helped.
On the upside no one has to be up at 5:30am and we don't have to brave the pouring rain and gusts of wind - which we would, because its therapeutic! and character building. They would have been short walks though. Real Short Walks. But I would rather walk in the rain and wind than have my dog limping and whimpering and crated AGAIN.
Did I mention that this is the knee she had surgery on last March? The vet thinks that the wire in her knee may have become contaminated either prior to or during the surgery and she's just really "sensitive" to it. Hi, she has a pre-existing condition called Addison's Disease, she's sensitive to infection because she has an autoimmune disorder! My question being, what are the infection control protocols for veterinary surgery? are there rules about sterilization and keeping the field clean? I mean, are they allowed to have lunch in there? Can the surgical suite also used as the break room? Whats the what there?
This is the third or fourth time she's been on antibiotics and its at least the second major infection she's had in the knee, the first of which surfaced two weeks after her surgery. I have so many empty pill bottles with Doggers name on them I could open my own pharmacy... where I could bottle her super urine! I bet her urine could cure H1NI.
The vet said the next step which he described as the best case and worse case scenario would be to put her under again and take out the cat gut wire from the surgery and see if that "fixes" it. He said it "might have snapped" and two ends are rubbing and that's causing the inflammation, and then taking it out would be for the best as the knee would have by now grew enough scar tissue to hold itself together, the ultimate goal of the surgery, with the cat gut wire snapping naturally on its own after a few months and no longer supporting the knee. Ta Da!
I brought Dogger home, fed her, pilled her, peed her and then I went to a Chinese place and then hit a Dunkin Donuts on the way home. Antibiotics do not cure all ills, for some things you need chocolate filling and MSG.