Well, Ossi didn't get a new leg, per se. But, he did get a new ACL. Well, fishing line, per se. He had what I'll call reconstructive surgery, where the surgeon used 100-pound-test nylon to re-create his ACL. All that for the low, low price of 1,500 dollars! (Who needs an up-to-date kitchen?!)
San dropped him off at Tendertouch Animal Hospital on Friday morning of April 30th. He underwent surgery that day. I visited him that evening - he was stoned to the gills. Instead of using the vet tech, he weened himself off his morphine drip by chewing through the line sometime that evening. San & I picked him up Saturday at 2:30pm.
He is alive and well, if not unhappy that he can't spaz-out on his sister Stella or scratch furiously at the fence whilst the neighbor dog takes a leak or, generally, have any fun at all.
Tomorrow he goes in to have his epidural patch removed. In 7 to 10 days, he will have his sutures removed.
