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Rica Update!After she got her staples out and was out of the surgery woods, using her leg all by herself, and was just o...
10/28/2024

Rica Update!

After she got her staples out and was out of the surgery woods, using her leg all by herself, and was just overall doing a lot better. I did something I don't see a lot of people do. I let her body be. I did not do massage, red light therapy, PEMF, or any exercises for her leg. I let her body just continue to heal itself, by itself.
Sometimes, I feel like we do all these things for so long that we forget that there comes a point: we need to just let the body rest and heal all by itself.
After a week of letting her be, I started the exercises, walking her, red light therapy, PEMF, and massage again. I finally touched her scar itself and rolled the myofascial tissue until I felt like it loosened, and now it's all building her muscle in her leg so it doesn't look any different from the other. Overall, she's doing amazing!

Yesterday we drove back up to Sun Valley to see Dr. Tobias and get Rica's staples out. When we spoke with him after gett...
10/07/2024

Yesterday we drove back up to Sun Valley to see Dr. Tobias and get Rica's staples out. When we spoke with him after getting her staples out he said she is almost doing too well. We asked and he let us know normally they don't start using their leg like Rica is until later on in the healing process and seemed very impressed with her. I also included a photo of all the staples the night before.

Goes to show that diet (she's been getting tripe to help with her healing), holistic modalities like massage, red light therapy, and PEMF all really do work TOGETHER with veterinary care/surgical care to bring about the best possible outcome.

Rica's will to live her best life and how tough she is plays a HUGE role in this process as well. She really tries hard and wants to use her leg so she can run and play and do all the things!

10/06/2024

Week 2 of Rica's recovery brought lots of laughs and by the end of the week she was so restless with her kennel rest we were looking forward to getting her staples out.

Everything with week 1 went according to plan, she started really using her leg every time we would take her out and even stopped limping for a few strides each time. Now week 2 started and I started adding in weight-shifting exercises into our routine and some more light massage as well to help with the muscle cramping as she heals.

The weight shifting exercises are VERY simple and just encourage her to put weight on the leg. The video of her standing and moving her head around is all we did until about Wednesday. I also set up those poles so she re-learned how to use both legs to walk instead of both together or just packing her leg around.

We also started "doggy squats" to help build the muscle up on Tuesday and this will also continue. It's just her sitting and then standing but she cannot move forward to stand so she uses her leg muscles more and starts building that back up.

I've been bad about posting Rica's updates, so today I'll do two posts, and tomorrow, do another to catch up. It's been ...
10/05/2024

I've been bad about posting Rica's updates, so today I'll do two posts, and tomorrow, do another to catch up. It's been 2 weeks to the day of her FHO (Femoral Head Ostectomy) surgery and Rica is doing amazing! Week 1 was strict kennel rest, red light therapy 4 times that week, PEMF every day, and passive range of motion every day since the day after her surgery.

I started the PEMF and passive range of motion the day after surgery because we want the scar tissue to be as pliable as possible so she can use the leg as normally as possible and have the full range of motion in her leg. Keep in mind, this first weeks passive range of motion was EXTREMELY light in nature and if Rica said no to a move then I respected that and stopped.

Here's some pictures of the first week!! She also started trying to use her leg the second day after surgery as well so we could tell she felt MUCH better vs before surgery.

Big update on Rica! Forewarning, this is long!So we took her to our vet in town and with the x-rays we took we could see...
09/23/2024

Big update on Rica! Forewarning, this is long!
So we took her to our vet in town and with the x-rays we took we could see the head of her femur was very damaged, so much so the vet suggested we take her entire leg off because she also felt her knee was done for. This situation I will write a whole different post on why it is important to get a second opinion. My chiropractor and several other people and vets I know suggested a vet in Sun Valley ID for a second opinion.

When I called them they gave me their email, requested I sent the x-rays and her story to them and that they would forward it to this doctor to see what he thought. 15-20 minutes after the email was sent, he calls and says he wants to see her and for him taking her leg off isn't an option. We booked her consultation for yesterday Sept. 21st for 11 am. They called my husband and said there was an emergency surgery that came up and were wondering if we could move Rica to a 9am instead, we agreed of course because you can't do anything about an emergency, they happen.

Sun Valley if 3 hours away from where we live so my husband and I woke up at 4am yesterday, drove to Sun Valley ID for her 9am appointment, and finally got to meet the doctor we had heard only good things about. We were surprised when they took Rica back on her own and then the doctor came out and he took his time, talked to us about options and what he saw when he examined Rica, we spoke with him for a half hour. At the end he asks us, alright what would you like to do today? I'm ready to do this FHO (Femoral Head Ostectomy) today. We were surprised and asked what about his emergency surgery, which must take priority. Come to find out, Rica was his emergency surgery and he moved patients and cleared the entire schedule for him and it looked like for the office just for her, she was the only patient that day.

We got to pick her up this morning at 11am and now she is recovering and it went better than we could have hoped. It was so much worse than he thought, the femoral head had broken off and was grinding bone on bone and the destruction was just crazy. We are sending the bone out for biopsy to make sure there's no cancer, but we think it's just from 8 months of no blood flow and the necrosis just set in.

Rica's first PEMF, acupressure, and Passive Range of Motion treatment today went awesome, she loved it! You can definite...
09/09/2024

Rica's first PEMF, acupressure, and Passive Range of Motion treatment today went awesome, she loved it! You can definitely see the different in muscle on each side, but once she gets some xrays and we see how badly she hurt herself then we can start doing something about that.

Welcome to the family Rica, we've got a long ways to go for your rehab. Follow her progress on here! I'm going to do wee...
09/08/2024

Welcome to the family Rica, we've got a long ways to go for your rehab. Follow her progress on here! I'm going to do weekly updates on her 😊

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06/29/2024

Come by and see our booth today!

Gumby over here, and she wonders why she has back problems 😂
06/29/2024

Gumby over here, and she wonders why she has back problems 😂

Join us today at Branded Bonanza! Got the table all set up and ready to go!
06/28/2024

Join us today at Branded Bonanza! Got the table all set up and ready to go!

01/29/2024

Harley enjoying her PEMF treatment, and Ash being there for moral support

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