Well despite taking the Robaxin now for a whole week (and back on Tramadol-pain med. twice daily) I don't see any change in Guinness. He still only bears weight on his left leg when we go on slow walks. Even during the walks he walks very guarded with it an if he walks to fast he starts to hold it up again, it's hard to get him to walk slow sometimes he has so much pint up energy. No more luck with the new excercises he still won't bear weight on it and now Doug and I are getting worried. At 2 weeks they said he would beging putting weight on it and walking on it mostly by 3 weeks. He is not doing well in his recovery. :(
He has his 4th week appointment this Friday. I tried calling yesterday to see if they could squeeze me in yesterday but they were booked. They did offer to change the appointment to Thursday at 8am so I did, hopefully Doug can make it too and just go into work a little later. He has his rehab at this appointment and repeat x-rays. I pray everything healed correctly and we just need work with him more. But what we are doing obviously isn't working. I wonder if they will let him start his water therapy early, he isn't supposed to start it until 6 weeks. I think he is still fearful to bear weight on it and then holding it up has become habit for him. I wonder if they will atleast clear him to go swimming. I think that would help build back the muscle strength in his left leg, it has atrophied so much in comparison to the right rear leg which has hypertrophed. Which is to be expected with a leg injury but a couple of weeks post surgery he should start to rebuild it back by bearing weight but he isn't doing it. I just keep praying that we will find an answer on Thursday.
I'm just at a loss and hope that he gets better. I've missed taking him on walks, going swimming, and hanging out with our puppy group so much, I know he misses it too.
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