http://dogkneeligament.com/our-story/the-day-of-the-surgery-dropping-off-and-picking-up-your-dog/ Information on dog knee injuries and treatment options for torn/ruptured CCL in dogs Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:51:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://dogkneeligament.com/our-story/the-day-of-the-surgery-dropping-off-and-picking-up-your-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-354 Jan Kennon Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:00:32 +0000 http://dogkneeligament.com/?p=100#comment-354 Although my Dobermann is recovering well from his op there was a mishap that perhaps could have been avoided. My own vet lets me stay when he's put under sedation and after he's awake I sit with him. Because this was a specialist vets for Orthopedics he was insistant that my dog will be fine and as I expained he's never left alone(That's just how our lifestyle has worked out)he'd make sure a nurse was with him. Ok so far so good. The probem struck when I got to reception that evening, said "Hello" etc, the vet called the nurse to get my boy on his lead and bring him through except at the moment he must have heard my voice. We think because his nurse was not at that moment there, he must have rammed the cage with such force to get to me that he came out with the biggest bump on his head I've ever seen. Although they were all apologelic I felt that if I had been allowed to sit with him when he woke he wouldn't have been so instinctive in his forcefullness to get to me. He doesn't like a barrier between us. Bad enough this poor boy was suffering post op stress and pain. He looked deformed. Needless to say he recovered after a week but please guys where you can please listen to owners to clearly have that type of bond as it might prevent this type of thing from happening. My own Vet a Mr Phakey who happens to be like Dr. Doolittle has a very great understanding of his clients needs and I find that reassuring. Although my Dobermann is recovering well from his op there was a mishap that perhaps could have been avoided. My own vet lets me stay when he’s put under sedation and after he’s awake I sit with him. Because this was a specialist vets for Orthopedics he was insistant that my dog will be fine and as I expained he’s never left alone(That’s just how our lifestyle has worked out)he’d make sure a nurse was with him. Ok so far so good. The probem struck when I got to reception that evening, said “Hello” etc, the vet called the nurse to get my boy on his lead and bring him through except at the moment he must have heard my voice. We think because his nurse was not at that moment there, he must have rammed the cage with such force to get to me that he came out with the biggest bump on his head I’ve ever seen. Although they were all apologelic I felt that if I had been allowed to sit with him when he woke he wouldn’t have been so instinctive in his forcefullness to get to me. He doesn’t like a barrier between us. Bad enough this poor boy was suffering post op stress and pain. He looked deformed. Needless to say he recovered after a week but please guys where you can please listen to owners to clearly have that type of bond as it might prevent this type of thing from happening. My own Vet a Mr Phakey who happens to be like Dr. Doolittle has a very great understanding of his clients needs and I find that reassuring.

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