Our first, and biggest baby, Cole, had surgery to repair a torn ACL just over a week ago. He had started limping at least a month ago, and eventually got to where he didn't even use his back right leg. We were getting really nervous, we thought it must be the hip displasia that we knew was inevitable. Carl took him to the vet to get him checked, where they determined it was his hips or maybe a torn ACL. Of course, it required an x ray to determine the answer, so that's what we did. The x ray proved it to be his ACL, which meant surgery which is not fun, but thankfully also meant that he could be healed and back to normal again soon. Our vet in town offered two types of surgery that cost a pretty penny, but Carl has a friend with some connections for a vet in Navasota that could do the surgery a different way and much cheaper. Naturally, we called him, and got Cole in for surgery the next week. The surgery went great, and now after 8 days he is walking around using it better than he did before the surgery! We are so relieved to see our boy getting back to himself and able to walk around like he should. Hopefully this will be our only dog surgery to endure...it was not fun!
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