Tai cuddling up to Wilson (as always!) while Wilson pretends he's not really there...On Saturday we x-rayed Tai again. The difference since the last x-rays 2.5 wks previous was huge - you couldn't see the fracture line clearly only a jumble of stuff (the callus). Steve unscrewed the left-in ex. fix. pins so the only hardware Tai has is the pin down the ulna. He is allowed to weightbare and begin slow walks!!!!!! Yay!!!
There is still quite a bit of healing to go so only slow and gentle exercises for the next month.
Unfortuantly the splint has caused a friction-rub wound on the tip of his elbow. This didn't show up as the discharge and blood was caught under the splint! It was deep enough to see the tip of the ulna pin sticking out - ouch! Steve sutured it up so hopefully that heals ok...
Tai saw his physio today (Kirsten) and he is allowed to go for slow short walks (if he walks slowly he does weightbare nicely), do ladder work (starting with 1 or 2 reps and building up) and balancing exercises (lifting up right front paw and/or back paw) beginning with a few seconds building up to longer. I will also continue to do some gentle shaping involving his left paw touching a target. He was quite sore (like normal) so Kirsten worked on him for quite a while and also used the laser. He looked loads better afterwards.
Hopefully in a little while we will get him swimming!! He will love that! Just need to buy and set up the pool...
Things are looking better for him now. The totally best thing is, because he is now getting some exercise/ stimulation he is tired!!!!!!!! For the last couple of weeks he had begun to lose it and go a bit crazy, so this new exercise stuff is zonking him out before he goes too mental.
Tai showing off his Bay of Plenty rugby colours :)
There is still quite a bit of healing to go so only slow and gentle exercises for the next month.
Unfortuantly the splint has caused a friction-rub wound on the tip of his elbow. This didn't show up as the discharge and blood was caught under the splint! It was deep enough to see the tip of the ulna pin sticking out - ouch! Steve sutured it up so hopefully that heals ok...
Tai saw his physio today (Kirsten) and he is allowed to go for slow short walks (if he walks slowly he does weightbare nicely), do ladder work (starting with 1 or 2 reps and building up) and balancing exercises (lifting up right front paw and/or back paw) beginning with a few seconds building up to longer. I will also continue to do some gentle shaping involving his left paw touching a target. He was quite sore (like normal) so Kirsten worked on him for quite a while and also used the laser. He looked loads better afterwards.
Hopefully in a little while we will get him swimming!! He will love that! Just need to buy and set up the pool...
Things are looking better for him now. The totally best thing is, because he is now getting some exercise/ stimulation he is tired!!!!!!!! For the last couple of weeks he had begun to lose it and go a bit crazy, so this new exercise stuff is zonking him out before he goes too mental.
Tai showing off his Bay of Plenty rugby colours :)
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