Today's the day

I am sat here at twelve thirty in my car looking at Ace. He has not yet been clipped. He's not been bathed. He's not got an IV line in. As far as I can tell, nothing whatever has been done with him that could not have been done today.  I am certainly going yo be asking why he had to be here yesterday and add forty quid to my bill.


Radar was calm this morning, which was a relief. And all will be over soon.
 Check back later, I'll report when he is in the operating theatre.

C 12.30pm


Now on tenterhooks,  there may be a problem

I have just had a chat with the surgeon and he is unsure whether he will be able to cut the last two apart, because they are so close together that he may not be able to get the scissors in. This would be bad news, but not disastrous. If he can't, he will saw the one in the middle right off.

This will mean a much more onerous and lengthy rehab, but is likely in the end to produce the same result.

Now, what was going to happen if I hadn't been here? They were just going to operate and tell me after that they'd done a much more invasive process at much greater expense, mine?  Yup

And the second question. This surgeon saw those xrays six weeks ago. Why am I only told this on the day of the operation?

C 14.10


Still waiting.

C 17.00

Success!!

One very sweaty surgeon who has worked his socks off not to have to saw a process off. 5 incisions. He's still dopey, but looks very comfortable.

What an enormous relief. Check in later, I will post what he told me.

C


OK, I've had my dinner and a glass of lager and I'm sat down to relax

The surgeon said he had a hard job to break up all the fibrous tissue that Ace had built up to  protect his back from pain. This will be the stuff that cack handed physio tried to break down without realising what it was.

That, and the spaces being so tight to open up meant, as the home vet who was helping him said, that he really worked for his money. When I saw him after it was all done, he looked like he'd just finished a 10 k run :-)

I'll give him credit, he was absolutely determined not to saw off the bone unless he was absolutely forced to.  He's hopeful that this will have sorted things, but of course there are no guarantees.

But at least for tonight, I am going to bed relaxed and happy.

C