D-Day

Just received word from the resident at VMTH and the T.P.O. surgery went well. It went quickly and smoothly. Patton was out of surgery around 3:45pm CST but they were waiting to call since he was having a rough recovery. When he began to come around, he started thrashing, so they wanted to re-sedate him and place trans-dermal pain patches on him which take 12-24 hours to take affect. For now he is resting comfortably and they will administer pain medication through the night until the patches take affect.

The results of the PennHip test are in.....and to our shocking disbelief, the left hip in not as bad as feared but the right hip is worse. The left hip measured in at 0.6 and the right hip came in at a jaw dropping 0.9. So in 4 weeks we maybe going through this again for the right hip. I will have to wait for the vet to call a little later on tonight with his report.

So far, so good. We'll have to wait and see how he does through the night.