Coming Home Day

Guinness's intern called this morning to say that he was doing well and could be released at noon. She showed me his post-operative x-rays. If you enlarge this photo, you can see a dark curved line at the top of his tibia bone. They rotated that bone forward to create a somewhat flat surface at the top, instead of a sloped surface, to keep the ball of the femur from sliding off the tibia. If you look closely, you can see the cut portion of the fibia turned forward of the tibia. Then the joint is stabilized with a plate that is screwed in to the two pieces of bone. Ouch!

Dr. Sarah had left me temporarily at the cashier's window in the background. I turned away from Guinness to speak to the cashier, and wouldn't you know, he jumped placing his front paws on the shelf at the window. Another client offered to hold him while I concluded business, and he jumped with her holding him too. Not good!

Here he is ready to go home with his surgeon assisting to porter him to my car.

At home, he was sedated enough to relax for a minute and show off his leg which had surgery.