Gramercy visits with the orthopedic surgeon

First of a ton of thank you's to my co-state coordinator for coming with me & Gramercy (again) to the vet visit.  This is all new territory for me and there's a lot of information to take in.  So here's what I took away about Gramercy from the orthopedic surgeon:

 

- his left front leg's bowing is genetic and not an issue 

- the right front leg may have possibly been fractured at some time and there may be a break that never healed properly in that leg . That leg is sensitive to touch and the surgeon couldn't really do much manipulating as Gramercy wasn't going to allow that.

- both back legs have luxating patellas

- on his left back leg, he has an ACLbreakdown.  Here's a great link talking about an ACL Injury in dogs  Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in Dogs

So, the surgeon believes the ACL and luxating patella need to be repaired in the back left leg.

As he said: "the little guy needs 3 good working legs and right now he only has 2"

The surgeon would like x-rays of all the legs we can see what we are dealing with and if something else beside the back left leg needs to be fixed. Given how they will need to bend and manipulate all 4 legs for good x-rays, the surgeon feels Gramercy needs to be anesthetized. The good news is that the surgeon said we could do the x-rays and then the surgery (for the back left leg) at the same time. This would save Gramercy from being anesthetized twice.  The surgeon was very confident on his diagnosis of the ACL breakdown and the luxating patella in that back left leg so we are in agreement of getting that done asap. 

 

The plan of action for his front right leg will need to wait until the surgeon and a radiologist both see the radiographs of that leg due to the complexity of the deformity to the joint/leg.

The great news is that the surgeon dontated  his surgical consulation fee ($150) given we are a rescue.  How cool is that?! I also really, really liked the surgeon - he met with us for an hour and was a super nice guy.

The bad news is that the soonest any of this can be done is on March 7th. We went ahead and scheduled the surgery/xrays and now we just wait and hopefully continue to raise funds for this sweet boys surgery and xrays.

As you can see below Gramcery was a very good boy!