la_belle_laide | Update on dogs :) (Reply)

Just picked Haku up from his 8 week recheck (except I think it's actually 9 weeks.) The surgery looks good, the plates and bones are all in place, and he's where he should be. I mentioned that he still had a hard time sitting down and getting up, and she said that was normal; it's only at 3 months minimum that you start to see kind of regular movement again. But the leg itself is about 85% healed. It's really his other leg, the one from last year, that's got all this arthritis and is going to keep giving him trouble. They gave me an estimate for these glucosamine injections twice a week that they would have to do there and it was like $450. Jesus.

Then Sano got his blood test and check-up so he could get his prescription refill for his ITP and I'm still waiting on those results; should get them tomorrow. I'm nervous though because it seems to be around March that he gets the ITP back, for whatever reason. I mentioned that to the vet (the awesome one, who caught the ITP in the first place,) and she said that in the last week alone she saw four dogs with ITP and she was wondering if it actually did have a seasonal trigger, and it was starting earlier because we haven't really had a winter.

So I'll find out tomorrow.

Meantime, I have work today, from 2:15 till around 8 PM. Also, Jo-chan is over here for a few days with her cute little Havanese rescue. Sano doesn't mind (except that everything is different and I'm not supposed to play with the other dog, apparently, even though he can,) but Haku does nothing but growl, because he's a dirtbag like that.

So that's the update!