I may have mentioned, I have always truly believed that Harrison's natural twin is his yellow lab, Cannon. They are both blond, full of love, laid back, take it as it comes, stoic kind of guys, and they are both more expressive than anyone I know who actually uses words. They also, bless them, both have had crazy medical issues since they were babies.
Cannon had his right knee replaced before he was a year old (his sister too but she was older), and he has been hospitalized more than once for dehydration from out of control vomiting. He has had some of the same tests as Harry, and they even tried to put him on one of the same meds, which we flat out refused because of the reaction Harrison had to it.
Cannon's knee has never healed correctly, and we have had to take him off of the anti-inflammatory meds because of his belly (Irritable Bowel???). Today we finally followed up with the surgeon who replaced his knee three years ago, and he feels that Cannon is doing even worse than the dogs who don't do well after this surgery. He falls, as he says "outside the box." What a surprise. Just as complicated as his baby brother.
Hopefully this will be an easy fix...take out the metal plate that he no longer needs, because there is probably a chronic low- grade infection there from the metal, and give him antibiotics. Also, cortisone-type shot in both knees, once a month for 3 months. A mild anti-inflammatory that hopefully won't upset his stomach...and then we move on to the left knee, which has much worse arthritis and will probably also need to be replaced, but with a different procedure considering how he has reacted to the first one. Poor baby...
How did our boys get to be so complicated????? They are both damn lucky they are so cute and lovable!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment