I'm a nervous wreck. Little Isaiah is in surgery. He started limping last week. Whisked him right off to the Ortho. He has ocd in his shuolder. Though, it doesnt' appear to be OCD in the term I researched. basically, there's a tiny malformation in the upper part of his shoulder joint which wore off a piece of cartiledge in his shoulder. It's not thickened immature cartilege but a little over curvature in the socket. Regardless, the procedure is the same except they will smooth off that corner too when they clean out the cartiledge. Pretty much, it's the same surgery my daughter had on her knee when her miniscus tore.
He has to stay overnight. I'm waiting by the phone for his post op update. Poor little dumpling. First I cut off his manly jewels and then this.
I asked the doctor if it was anything I did that caused this and she said no. Just a little genetic hiccup. The preop appontment was funny in one way. She was expecting me to be upset, but I was just so thrilled that he had something fixable, I was really calm. She checked everything else out too. His knees are great. nice and tight. His hips have sub lux, but as hes only 6 months old, this could fix or not with age. I asked her what I coud do about it. Being a surgeon, she immediately started outlinng a procedure that involve breakign the hip into 6 pieces. I quickly stopped her and explained I meant in terms of exercise. I told her that was way too extreme an approach to take for something that may never be a problem. She agreed, and seemed to breathe a sigh of releif. She asked what I wanted to do next. I told her I wanted the surgery done asap. that was last Thursday. I could see something was bothering her, and I kept waitng for her to spit it out. Finally, as she was writing up his surgery info, she asked, "Don't you want to even know how much it's going to cost?"
I told her the truth. It didnt' matter. Isaiah needed his shoulder fixed. I explained to her that I figured over the course of his life isaiah could cost me upwards of 10k as he's a giant breed and no matter how good his parent's clearances were, I'm practical and nature can be funky. I spent over 5k on my previous newf on skin issues alone which were finally resolved but not until medical knowledge caught up wiht his allergies.
Apparently, most of their client either begrudge paying for medical, or just don't anticapte the dogs ever needing medical and dont' have it.
Ok. I'm rambling. Just stressed waiting to hear how Isaiah is doing.
best,
Holly
He has to stay overnight. I'm waiting by the phone for his post op update. Poor little dumpling. First I cut off his manly jewels and then this.
I asked the doctor if it was anything I did that caused this and she said no. Just a little genetic hiccup. The preop appontment was funny in one way. She was expecting me to be upset, but I was just so thrilled that he had something fixable, I was really calm. She checked everything else out too. His knees are great. nice and tight. His hips have sub lux, but as hes only 6 months old, this could fix or not with age. I asked her what I coud do about it. Being a surgeon, she immediately started outlinng a procedure that involve breakign the hip into 6 pieces. I quickly stopped her and explained I meant in terms of exercise. I told her that was way too extreme an approach to take for something that may never be a problem. She agreed, and seemed to breathe a sigh of releif. She asked what I wanted to do next. I told her I wanted the surgery done asap. that was last Thursday. I could see something was bothering her, and I kept waitng for her to spit it out. Finally, as she was writing up his surgery info, she asked, "Don't you want to even know how much it's going to cost?"
I told her the truth. It didnt' matter. Isaiah needed his shoulder fixed. I explained to her that I figured over the course of his life isaiah could cost me upwards of 10k as he's a giant breed and no matter how good his parent's clearances were, I'm practical and nature can be funky. I spent over 5k on my previous newf on skin issues alone which were finally resolved but not until medical knowledge caught up wiht his allergies.
Apparently, most of their client either begrudge paying for medical, or just don't anticapte the dogs ever needing medical and dont' have it.
Ok. I'm rambling. Just stressed waiting to hear how Isaiah is doing.
best,
Holly
Keep us posted. mj
