Well I can honestly say that I just feel like crying after last nights vet visit.
He came out, basically said she has a different kind of lameness to before; before she was 'short' and now she's not but she sort of drops her hip every stride. Tbh I thought she looked about the same as last time, just worse-she was doing the hip thing before as far as I can tell. She also wasn't as lame as she had been on sunday which is annoying.
Anyway she was a witch, lazy one minute and crazed wild beast the next - managed to kick my thigh whilst I was lunging her, fortunately it didn't hurt! Anyway he said to carry on as before!!
At this point I was like but its obviously not working; its not practical for me to be doing this and I don't want to spend 3 months farting about if she's just going to go lame as soon as she can do 'normal' work or goes out in the field. Apart from the fact I'm wasting time and insurance money. I said last time you said that you couldn't do a nerve block as she wasn't lame, now she's lame so can't we do one? So under duress he did, he put a needle in and said that he would block the bit that would be cut with the surgery. Gave her 5 mins then lunged, he said there was an improvement but she still put in the odd stride not right. Tacked up and trotted her round the school, did some 15 metre circles - she felt better and he said she looked better now than on the lunge. Tack off and lunged again - he said there was a definate improvement to when we lunged straight after block, but did say every now and again she 'hitched' with the hip. So if the block wasn't quite 100% succesful then what else is going on with her - surely that should be looked into??
Basically he said that still carry on as before, and if that doesn't work he will block again and they can operate. Said he didn't want to cut her open straight away, but give it a couple of months to heal.
I asked about the pelvis, fine to get someone out but he doesn't think its linked, either by cause or effect to the PSD. I gave up at this point, and just thought I'd get a second opinion. I just want to get her fixed - he said himself the chances are slim she will come right, however surgery offers 80% chance of success. I can see where he is coming from wanting to wait, but why put her through 2 and a half months extra box rest when they could do it now? If surgery doesn't work then fine, ill draw a line under it and we did everything we could.
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