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Or someone who has had a similar experience that can offer some advice...
Our dog Jazz has had both rear leg ACL's repaired over the last 5 years. Both surgeries went fine. On the leg we had done 5.5 months ago with a TPLO. She recovered fine from the surgery and has no limp or trouble walking on the leg.
The problem we're having is that about a month ago, she developed two lesions on the inside of the leg, one on the knee and one just below. Looks like a small rupture or puncture about 1.5-2" apart. I cleaned and put neosporin on them figuring she ran through the rose bushes or something else and poked a few holes in herself. The top hole closed up but the bottom one wouldnt. I took her to the vet, a nice old country doc we found thats about a million years old, friendly, good with the animals, always available, and he's got a great staff...but i'm not 100% sold on his full competency for complex problems...
He prescribed an antibiotic, flushed the wound, and after the ten days of pills both holes closed up. Within a couple of days of taking her off the antibiotics, they opened right back up. So the vet put her under, opened up the area figuring he had a foxtail or some foreign body in there. Couldnt find anything. Stitched her up and prescribed another round of antibiotics. The holes closed up. A few days after we took her off the antibiotics, the lower hole opened up and an area about an inch to the right of the original upper hole swelled to about half a golf ball size, then burst open. Hole big enough for me to stick my little finger into with a smaller pen-tip size hole in the tissue beneath.
All of this is on or almost immediately adjacent to the knee.
This vet has referred me back to the guy who did the knee surgery, figuring it may have something to do with that given the area the infection is in.
Anyone have something similar happen, know of problems with this sort of surgery that wouldnt manifest themselves until 3-4 months later, or have any insights? I'm starting to get concerned over the number of surgeries she's had and the plausibility that the knee surgeon will want to put her under again and poke around in there some more.
Our dog Jazz has had both rear leg ACL's repaired over the last 5 years. Both surgeries went fine. On the leg we had done 5.5 months ago with a TPLO. She recovered fine from the surgery and has no limp or trouble walking on the leg.
The problem we're having is that about a month ago, she developed two lesions on the inside of the leg, one on the knee and one just below. Looks like a small rupture or puncture about 1.5-2" apart. I cleaned and put neosporin on them figuring she ran through the rose bushes or something else and poked a few holes in herself. The top hole closed up but the bottom one wouldnt. I took her to the vet, a nice old country doc we found thats about a million years old, friendly, good with the animals, always available, and he's got a great staff...but i'm not 100% sold on his full competency for complex problems...
He prescribed an antibiotic, flushed the wound, and after the ten days of pills both holes closed up. Within a couple of days of taking her off the antibiotics, they opened right back up. So the vet put her under, opened up the area figuring he had a foxtail or some foreign body in there. Couldnt find anything. Stitched her up and prescribed another round of antibiotics. The holes closed up. A few days after we took her off the antibiotics, the lower hole opened up and an area about an inch to the right of the original upper hole swelled to about half a golf ball size, then burst open. Hole big enough for me to stick my little finger into with a smaller pen-tip size hole in the tissue beneath.
All of this is on or almost immediately adjacent to the knee.
This vet has referred me back to the guy who did the knee surgery, figuring it may have something to do with that given the area the infection is in.
Anyone have something similar happen, know of problems with this sort of surgery that wouldnt manifest themselves until 3-4 months later, or have any insights? I'm starting to get concerned over the number of surgeries she's had and the plausibility that the knee surgeon will want to put her under again and poke around in there some more.