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Lacey
FROM 3/22/2004:
Dallas Rescue luck continues. I picked up a little girl from Oklahoma City this morning and took her to the vet afternoon. My vet immediately xrayed her and found that her hip bone is broken - the femoral head is still in the socket but the bone is no where near the head. Also, she has a torn crucient ligament because of the way she has had to compensate to walk. He thinks she was hit by a car sometime ago. This is an older injury. This poor little girl has obviously been in pain for quite some time. I had her shots today, she is heartworm negative and already spayed. We think she is around 5 or 6. She is such a pretty little girl. I should know more tomorrow. Colleen and I are beginning to believe that we have the most abused/neglected/mistreated dogs in the world in this area. The last year and a half has not been easy rescues. I pray for a simple heartworm positive rescue. Keep us in your prayers.
FROM 3/27/2004:
Lacey went to the orthopedic surgeon today. It is worse than we thought. Dr. McDonald says that both crucient ligaments are torn. He feels the left one is worse than the right and is causing her a lot of pain. He wants to fix that one first. The left crucient has been torn so long that it has "encapsulated" and waiting a few more weeks won't hurt anything. He said she is basically a "2 legged dog". The estimate is the same for the first surgery and the second surgery. However, Dr. McDonald will not charge us for the FHO on her left leg when he does the second surgery to repair the fractured femoral neck. He will throw that in for free since he is going in to repair the crucient ligament. He wants to wait 10 weeks in-between the first surgery and second surgery. We will have to be very careful with her for the first 8 weeks of each surgery because this is doing the nylon repair rather than the TPLO that they recommend (which is about $3000 for each leg). I told him we are very experienced at keeping dogs crated. If the repair holds for 8 weeks, she will be good. He feels she should make a dramatic improvement within 2 weeks of the surgery by virtue of her having 3 legs instead of 2. He said that she was in good shape for the surgery - a good weight. He said that over half of the dogs he sees with crucient ligament problems are obese and then the owners wonder why their dogs have problems. He actually said Lacey was a good weight even though I would like to get a couple of pounds off of her.
Keep Lacey in your prayers. And guys, I really don't make up these stories about all the problem rescues - I don't think I could imagine what has happened to us in the last 14 months. But I can tell you that I am really getting tired and I think Colleen is as well. So everybody, how about sending us some "good karma" for the next rescue to be healthy. Heck, I would even take one that just had heartworms and be happy.
FROM 6/5/2004:
She is scheduled for the crucient ligament surgery this coming Wednesday. He is not going to do the FHO. He thinks that she may not need it. He was very pleased with her progress and even complimented me on the fact that I did exactly what he said to do and that she was well-healed. Before I took her to the vet, I bathed her in a shampoo the vet told me to use, Hexedene. All that stuff came off her back. It is still a little red. The surgeon said it looks like plain staph to him. She is still on the Cephalexin and will continue for at least 3 more weeks. He did say that this surgery won't be as easy because of the scar tissue and that her "meniscus" (may be spelled wrong but sounds like it) is completely torn in this leg as well. It wasn't in the other. This meniscus is a "C" shaped piece of cartilage that wraps around each side of the joint. He said the the "popping" noise that you hear when she walks is from the meniscus being completely torn. He said that he doesn't want to be more evasive than necessary and that he feels the FHO may not be required. He said it is such an old injury but he wants to reevaluate after she recoups from this surgery.
FROM 4/01/2004:
Here are the latest Lacey pictures. She seems to be resting pretty comfortably tonight. She even ate a couple of treats for me.
- Lynn Sluder
North Texas Samoyed Rescue
07/2005 -- Great News:
Lacey was adopted by Heather and her son, who also adopted a Samoyed named Walker from North Texas Samoyed Rescue. She is doing great and the family will soon be getting their 3rd Samoyed.
Click the above picture to see a BIG version!
8/17/07 -- Update from Lynn from North Texas Samoyed Rescue:
Many of you remember Lacey from North Texas Samoyed Rescue. She was the little girl that came into our program with a broken hip and 2 torn cruciate ligaments. She couldn't even stand up when we got her. After two successful surgeries funded by SamUrgency, she made a remarkable recovery. She has been in a very loving home for the last couple of years and has received all the love and attention that she so deserved. I am very sad to report that she passed away on Tuesday due to cancer. Lacey, even through the pain of two surgeries, always managed an entire body wiggle and would give the softest little woo. She fought gallantly to the end. Our rescue family is really missing this special little girl and I know many of you will as well.
Thanks to the following special people from Lacey and SamUrgency:
Beverley Andalora
Lisabeth Brown
Suzanne Friedenreich
Sue Jackman
Shelly and Randy Kees
Denise Newell
Diane Northway and Annie
Playing Again Sams
Marc Shepanek
Terry Taddeo, Sammy Reno and Dolly
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