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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Lovely pics Dave. I have missed your pics. Have you been otherwise occupied polishing up your snapping skills(not that they needed much brasso)?
I am envious...all I have to show are five miserable police cars(four visible) and a mucky Lancashire street.
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I have not been able to go out, Bob had an operation, and is now limited in his movements for a while. A few years ago he had his left hip joint removed (femoral head arthroplasty) and last Wednesday had his right one removed, so he now has no hip joints.
I found from his first operation that when it had healed, and the surrounding muscle had built up to support the remaining joint, no disability remained. The vet said it was arthritis, and it had eaten away the ball, and the joint was eroded to such an extent that it was neither smooth or round any more, (I have it in a jar on the mantelpiece for now).
At the moment it is, no stairs, or steps, no jumping up, and definitely no walks longer than 5 minutes, which is a task in itself as he wants to do all these things. Then there is the antibiotics twice a day, and the ice packs 5 times a day, there is hydrotherapy to come yet, and through all this his tail has been wagging, its me that has been nervous, worried and tearful, still, when he has recovered he will be better than he has been in years and normal service will be resumed.
So for now I will be taking a back seat, I take a neighbours dog out on Saturdays, so will keep this up, but hopefully the time I have spare I will use to get my Flickr account up to date, I have hundreds to organise, and they go back to December, so perhaps I can put some of those on here so I don't disappear altogether.
So that's me up to date, one last thing, I am glad I took out pet insurance, if anyone out there who has a dog hasn't done it, do it.