3 Week Post-op Apt. 4/11/07

I can hardly believe it has been 3 weeks. I must say the time is passing quickly and we all seem to have adjusted nicely to the new "rules" in our home. With Gates and a crate, and leash rules, it was all a lot to take in, but all the family members have been compliant.

This morning we saw Dr. Woolfson for Casey's 3 week post op apt. Dr. Woolfson was happy to see a happy Casey! He was pleased with his walking and said Casey had full range of motion in the knee! Yahoo! He had him sit to give him a treat and Casey sat the proper way and not the CCL leg out way! he was very pleased to see this and made sure to comment to me about how great that was. he said over the next 3 weeks to increase his walks up to 20 minutes. We are at 5 now so we will slowly increase.

Casey has some muscle atrophy, but that is quite normal and he will regain it over time. Dr. Woolfson also manipulated his knee and said it was very stable! We are so thrilled! Nice to hear that all our hard work is paying off.

We also go the okay to switch Casey's dog food. We decided to switch it as with the recent recalls (our old food was not recalled) I learned that his food was not as healthy as I wanted it. So today we began the Canidae. We will do a 50/50 mix for a while, then change of slowly.

The last of our good news is that Dr. Woolfson said Casey can return to sleep in our bedroom upstairs. As long as he climbs the stairs slowly and calmly with us beside him and holding his collar. My husband will finally get to sleep back in bed from 5 weeks on the couch! We bought another tri fold baby gate with a door in the middle to section off part of the bedroom where Casey will sleep on his ortho bed and thus he will NOT be able to get on our bed like he really wants too! Too high and too dangerous right now.

I also began today giving Casey Cosequin DS for his joints and mild arthritis in his hips. I hope this works. Many people on the orthodogs web site I belong to say great things about these supplements. I know there are so many out there that are junk since they are not FDA regulated, but this kind we got is a recommendation by the orthopedic surgeon to us.