Mollydoodle

We visited the vet this morning for a checkup on Molly's leg. As most of you will know, Molly had a second cruciate ligament surgery last December and then early January had stem cell injections into the joint. As part of the stem cell procedure we have checkups and fill in questionnaires regarding Molly's improvements. The questionnaires assist the stem cell company with research.

Well, the vet was very pleased with her. She even thinks the joint itself has reduced in size, which I was wondering the other day. Her knee was very large, or thick, as the vet put it. She felt sure it had reduced in size, which is good.

She told me today that Molly was in fact the first pooch to have the treatment at the vet and since her, they have treated 3 other dogs. You can see in the last image (above) when she sits, or begs, her leg (on the right) does sit out. She is unable to bend it like the other one, but it doesn't seem to bother her too much.

So, all in all that's pretty good news. We go back in 2 months for another check up and assuming the stem cells are doing their thing, the knee should continue to show some improvement for the next few months.

Do you know they are beginning to do this treatment in humans? Who has their hand up?

So, that's a pretty good start to the week, so is selling some of my goodies on Etsy last night. It's always nice to wrap up a parcel and send it off to its new owner.

Have a great week!

xx

Friday furries...off to the vet

We are off to the vet again today. Molly is having her stem cell injections into her knee.

We hope that is helps rejuvenate the joint that has quite a bit of arthritis it seems.

Cross fingers!

I am about to drop Molly off and will collect her after work. She will have a light general anaesthetic in order to get the injection in just the right spot and this will also give the vet a chance to see how well the ligament implant is holding up from the last operation back in December.

I am being a brave parent today and am confident there will be no tears when I drop her off. I am feeling quite positive about it all.

Yay for Friday. This week has seemed the slowest on record, but having said that, can you believe it's February already? Scary.

Have a good weekend folks :)

xx

Lazy days

The weekends have been pretty nice down here in Tassie lately.

We've spent a lot of time outside in the garden.

At the end of the day we'll sit outside and cool down with a drink or two :)

Miss Molly likes to shadow us. Wherever we are, she is not far away. Particularly if there's some stinky compost or fertiliser in use.

I couldn't help myself and had to get some cute shots of the girl wearing my hat.

She was being particularly tolerant as usually she would have attempted eating it.

So cute!

Aww, it all got too much!
The poor girl had to visit the vet yesterday for her booster injections but to also have her sore leg looked at. It appears she has Degenerative Joint Disease (djd), most probably through wear and tear. It's an osteoarthritic condition that covers a range of things such as arthritis and ligament damage. Molly is going to have a course of injections to help improve and maintain the cartilage in her joints but the doc thinks there's s good chance she may need some surgery at some point. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Our little girl was a bit sooky after her doctor visit yesterday so I had to get myself back in her good books with lots of treats :)
Well, can you believe it's February already? Crazy!

xx