Appointment Booked For Hunters Surgery
Long Road To Recover - But We'll Get There Boy!
On a personal note, I’ve booked an appointment to have Hunters CCL surgery performed at the Atlantic Vet College. Sadly, the date they’ve given me is MARCH 27th!! God and we thought the waiting times for some of the surgeries around here for people were bad, this is right up there!
It should be noted that although the official date isn’t until March, the lady I talked to on the phone was quite helpful and told me that more than likely that date would be pushed up significantly as they don’t have the surgeons schedule yet. Something about all surgeries are being booked under Orthopedic even though not all of them should be.. something like that, I sure hope so!
I actually did a lot of investigation into the new surgery I mentioned called the ‘Tightrope CCL’ surgery as I really wanted to have that performed on him, unfortunately.. there are no surgeons in Atlantic Canada whom perform said surgery. I went as far as to email the surgeon whom created the actual procedure, Dr. James (Jimi) Cooke from the University of Missouri. He was actually nice enough to reply with a lengthy email containing the names of a number of surgeons performing the surgery around the New England states as well as a few from Ontario. Unfortunately, medical travel such as this would not be an option I can’t imagine with all the follow up appointments and such.
I’m still in the process of deciding which surgery I’m going to have performed, but it is nice to have something booked.
