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by sands904 on 3/20/2011 at 9:29 AM in Lacey

I haven't written in a while as things have been crazy around here. Unfortunately, this is not a more happy post but Lacey has been limping more and more on her right knee. For those of you who have not read her previous posts she has already had surgery on her left knee for a luxating patella back in 2007. At that time they told us there may be a chance that the right knee would need to be operated on also. We hoped that day would never come...

Well, it is here. She has been picking up that leg more and more when she is running, etc. We took her into the vet on Thursday and her knee was totally out of place. We took her home watched her and thought about it. I just emailed our vet this morning and she already got back to me saying surgery is Lacey's best option. I am waiting for her to reply again but we are hoping to get a referral to the place that did her first surgery.

I will keep you all posted and begin writing much more often again. I just realized how much I wrote about her first knee surgery and it was great to have that log to look back on!!
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by sands904 on 1/3/2011 at 8:14 PM in Logan

Well on Christmas morning Lance and Logan were playing tug with their new toys and all of a sudden they stopped and I found a tooth laying on the floor in front of Logan. I picked up the tooth and looked at it. I couldn't tell if all the roots had come out with it or not. From our past experienced I know that if the entire root does not come out the vet recommends going in and removing it so that it does not abscess and get infected causing all sorts of problems.

Tuesday we went into the vet with Logan and the tooth. She looked at the tooth and said it did not look normal. To her it appeared to have rotted from the inside out. She is going to consult with a dental specialist and see what we can do about this. Thursday Logan has an appointment to be sedated and have the roots of that tooth removed and the rest of the x-rayed to make sure they are all healthy. Hopefully he does not have any more 'rotten' teeth.

I don't know how much more this poor little boy can take :(
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