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I'm absolutely delighted to say that Millie has now fully recovered from the operation and is back to her happy cheeky self. She is flying around on three legs and enjoying life again pain free. I cannot put into words how grateful I am for that and how happy it makes me. Last week something happened that you could not make up. I had a fall down the stairs and what happened? I broke a bone. That's right, after Millie broke her leg, I broke my toe. I have never broken a bone in my life. When I found out,...

I've missed a couple of weeks posting here, apologies. I'll just give you a quick update on Millie and her broken leg. In order to give her the best chance at living the remainder of her life pain free, I made the tough decision with the vets help to go ahead with amputation. It's been 11 days since the operation and she is healing well. All going well she should have her stitches removed in two days. There will be a bit of rehabilitation time needed to build up her strength and stamina once she is fully recovered from the...

Millie had her comparitave x ray yesterday. There have been significant changes to the bone. The vet has said she has 3 options. To have surgery with a specialist which can be expensive, invasive and complicated with appropriately 12 weeks recovery time and she is likely to still suffer with pain in the joint after it. 2. To keep her on pain killers for the rest of her life and see how she manages. She will not be able to use the leg normally again and will probably be careful with it. Regular bloodwork will be needed to assess her...

As promised, here is a little update on Millie since she broke her leg. It's been a week since her splint was replaced and she's starting to put a little weight on her leg when walking occasionally. Most of the time she's hopping along happily on three legs and I know she's starting to feel better as her attitude and her voice are back in full force! Toilet breaks are on lead and each time she has to wear a plastic cover to protect her bandages from getting wet. She also is confined to her crate at night when I...

This too shall pass... this is something I always remember to tell myself during tough times. An unfortunate situation happened last week when my dog Millie was playing in the garden with my other dog Stanley. She was running and injured her leg. I brought her to the vet and an X Ray revealed she had broken her hind leg. It's been bandaged up and a splint applied. We will be assessing it on a day by day basis as the vet is uncertain if the splint will work as the break is quite compressed. If this is the case...