Today's the Day

Today is x-ray day for Boris to find out why he's no longer weight bearing on his left front leg after a second bout of non weight bearing lameness, you can read about the first time here

Photo Description - Boris the Black Cocker Spaniel sitting in long grass on the allotment facing the camera, he has his tongue out and is wearing a light purple harness to aid getting him in and out of the car when I drove him there for a change of scenery, his left front paw is raised slightly to avoid putting his full weight on it

I have very mixed feelings about it, whilst we need to know what he's done to himself so that we can follow the best treatment path with adequate pain relief to make him more comfortable, there's that nagging worry about him having a sedation with his heart condition and what horrors the x-rays will show up

Boris is a lot more comfortable than he was a few days ago as he's on some pretty heavy duty painkillers at the moment, but that's just masking the problem in a bid to protect his other arthritic joints by reducing the amount of hopping around on three legs, it's not ideal in the long term without knowing exactly what's wrong

I trust our vet and know that all the staff will spoil Boris rotten with cuddles today, but it doesn't stop me worrying about what the x-rays will find

Photo Description - Boris wearing his navy bandana which says "Be nice I'm arthritic" which I always put on him if I'm leaving him alone at the vets or groomers, that way he can advocate for himself about his arthritis as a gentle reminder to whoever is handling him that sometimes things can be painful for him to do
📷 Brookmead Vets

It looked like there might be a hairline fracture on Boris's x-rays, today, but with the amount of remodeled bone due to his arthritis it was hard to tell for sure, so the x-rays have been sent off to a specialist vet for review 

Photo Description - A photograph of an x-ray of Boris's left elbow joint, the arthritis makes the joint look fuzzy making it hard to confirm if there's a fracture or not 

Best case scenario is that it's just a really bad strain, worst case scenario is that his Fragmented Coronoid Process has reared its ugly head again and he's fractured his elbow

All fingers and paws crossed nothing untoward is found🤞

Dawn xxx 

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