Yesterday Dr. Plante of The Poirier O'Brien Veterinary Clinic and an Eleven Eleven Tech / Founder Caroline Ross both went in on their days off to perform the surgery Speedy desperately needed. Speedy needed an amputation after his knee was broken 4 months ago and left untreated by the previous owners. The surgery took over 2 hours, and Speedy was a trooper. Everything went very well, and should heal beautifully. He now no longer has a dangling leg to trip on. Waking up was hard, as an amputation is a huge surgery and very painful. He was given a morphine injection before he woke up, has a Fentanly transdermal patch on, had a Metacam injection post-op and will be on oral pain killers for the next week or so. Needles to say, we have him on good pain management. He did loose a decent amount of blood during the surgery, as we had to go through a few very large veins and arteries so we kept him hospitalized and on fluids for 24 hours. We are going in to re-rvaluate him tonight and see if he is ready to come home or not.
Here is a video of him waking up from the anesthesia:
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Poor Baby Speedy! Waking up seems rough!
ReplyDeleteGood work Caroline and Dr Plante, Thanks for all the hard work! :)
Now a pain-free live can begin for Speedy!
Many Many kisses to Speedy!
Leesa
Yay Speedy. Poor thing. He will need a lot of love in the next week.
ReplyDeletei dont like to hear dogs cry.. but i know its a good crying for him.. i wish him all the luck in getting better and happeness that will come after :)
ReplyDeleteWe never made it to meet Speedy at his meet and greet but I am so happy that he was able to have his operation and we send him hugs love kisses licks and wags.
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