Bramble - Needs Operation!

Hey there! She's a little trooper! Kept waking us up during the night with her 'let me out!!!' protests! LOL.

She's somehow managed to pull a stitch out! But, it all looks ok and not causing her any probs, so am just leaving it, they are getting taken out on Monday anyway, so it should be fine. I'm about to give her another cuddle..

Oh, I came home from work yesterday to find her snuggled up with her dad! LOL! She then joined me, but later on, started crying and climbed back onto him! LOL! Oh it was the cutest thing ever.

Aaaww bless her, she is a wee trooper, kep giving those cuddles cos it's obviously beneficial to you both.

Oh bless!!! It's so wonderful to hear she's doing fine! *dances* Amazing how she's been so good with this all happening (except for a few howling complanint of being in the cage). Best of luck on Monday with having the stitches taken out!

So glad Bramble is doing well Helen, she sounds such a cutie with all her cuddles she's handing out!! Sounds like the wound is healing well, she should be good and ready to have those stitches out on Monday!

*stitches coming out** oooo makes me go all squeamish, LOL Good luck am sure it will all be fine Helen. x

Awwwww she is so good Helen, and she has come on so fast, just think how much better she is than this time last week, you are both doing an amazing job with her!

Thank you all. She is doing so well! (much better than I'd be doing in the same situation), despite her protests, she has been so accepting of it all, the worst of it being listening to her cry for what seems like hours on the night time due to loneliness as she would normally come to bed with us or Mads and hates being on her own.

Anyway, the little minx jumped right off the sofa yesterday! (grrrr) She didn't yelp or stumble tho, so her leg must be feeling better and certainly theres the strength in it to jump! LOL! Her other leg seems ok now too, I wonder if its because she wasn't able to weight bear on the one that was operated on so her 'good' leg was taking all the strain and with it not being so 'good' itself, it just couldn't take it, but now that her legs doing so well and is able to share the strain more, she's more 'balanced' and her other one isn't bothering her so much... that and the enforced rest.

Her appointment to get the stitches out is 5.50pm tomorrow! It should be nice as apparently the stitches go right into the knee capsule (poor lamb), so, may give her a little extra painkiller before we take her in. We'll be asking the vet if the collar can come off (I can't see any reason why it sould stay on once the stitches are out) and if she still needs cage rest? I'm hoping that it'll be ok, to confine her to one room (her old kitten room as there's nothing really for her to jump onto) when we are at work, then have her in the living room with us when we are home, and then maybe move the cage into our bedroom and just have her in that at nighttime. I'll find out from the vet whats best, but if they say another week of cage rest, then thats fine I guess as it'll in her best interest.

Oh I'm going on and on, just thinking out loud! LOL! Oh, oh oh, that reminds me, Bramble now lays down on command! LOL! Clever little poppet!

Best of luck at the vets tomorrow!



It's amazing how wonderful Bramble has been through this all... all those gorgeous cuddles with her mummy nad daddy has paid off.

I hope the vet will say she can get bit more freedom... even though it would be restricted freedom for a while... but she'd be so much happier getting to have room instead of the cage... and hopefully in not too long she'll be swinging off the curtains again! I so hope her other leg will be fine.

How was Bramble tonight Helen?

Well.... she's padding around the living room, checking everything is where it should be! LOL! She can't jump up yet tho, down from the sofa is no prob, but she can't jump onto it so has to be lifted up.

She was a very good girl having her stitches out and she has healed so well. The collar is off, and she is allowed out the cage under supervision, but she has to go back in the cage when we're at work and at night time, so in some ways it may be harder on her having freedom, then being cooped up again. This will go on for another 10 days, then she's back in the vets to be reassessed.

Oh bless her, I think it may be harder on you Helen when you put her in the cage. Once you are out of the house she probably settles down and sleeps for ages, she'll know there is no-one there to hear her, so she'll sleep.

Awwwww, like the way no one can hear you scream in space?? ;-)

Great to hear she's mobile again, albeit limited for the time being...........she'll have a lot of catching up to do tho', so enjoy the ralative peace and quiet while you can

Ian

That's wonderful news!!! And like KAth said... I think the cage bit will be harder for you then for Bramble too. She'll be quiet when you guys leave the house, as she'll know you're not there... it will of course be a different matter at night when she knows you're upstairs! lol! Prepare - buy earplugs! lol!

Here's hoping the next ten days will go by quickly and that all will be well. Really wonderful to hear that she's doing so well!

Ahhhh crap.... her knee's swollen up like a balloon with fluid. Poor lamb. It not bothering her, so hopefully its just from walking around the living room and she needs to be encouraged to rest it more, but I've put extra painkiller on her food for tonight (to help her sleep to rest it), and my partners off work tomorrow so will call the vets then and take her in if needs be.

Oh bless... poor little baby!!! I hope the swelling goes down tonight, and she'll be fine again tomorrow. Sending lots of cuddles to the little one!

Oh poor Bramble, hopefully the swelling will have gone down by tomorrow, and at least calvin is off, so if need be he can take her to the vet and look after her.

She's probably just done too much, too soon. I *think* fluid round a weak joint, ie after a op, is just there as extra protection, but a visit to the vets is the best option if it's no better today.

Ian

I hope the swelling on Bramble's knee corrects itself soon and doesn't cause her too many problems. I was really pleased to read how well her wound has healed and that her progress is good otherwise. How is the swelling today?

LOL! Oh we were back to the vets, much to Bramble's very vocal disapproval. The swelling and the fluid is a reaction to the sutures but as they break down themselves then its nothing to worry about. Dodgey thing is, he said if there was wire in then they would have to go in and take the wire out.... Now we were told that they had wired the knee back into position as well as using sutures to tighten and hold the ligaments in position, but there was no record of this in the operation notes.... hmmmmm, if my little girl comes to any harm...