Dogs

[Guest guest]

I would give MSM for any inflammation It is only organic sulphur and

should be quite safe. I take it myself and have no arthritis although

my knee is bone on bone from an old auto accident.

Irene - meandmy2cats@...

[Guest guest]

Hi

I'm not in Dog agility, but I train and show in Obedience. I am

scheduled for my TKR September 22

I started Agility with my Papillon but my knee just couldn't do it.

I'm still trialling in Utility and Open.

Dorie Madsen

New to group

 

Is anyone on the list active in dog agility? If so,

I'd like to ask about

your recovery and if you are still able to compete.

Thanks,

from Chambersburg, PA

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and Dorie,

I'm not in obedience nor agility, but I am in conformation and field. And I'd

love to try agility and rally if I could. I also have fibromylagia, so along

with my two bad hips (only one bad hip now:-)) I have not been able to handle my

own dogs for a few years now. It's totally frustrating, because nobody can do it

the way I want to do it--like I used to. We have had setters for thirty years.

Making this hip-replacement related, we have ten dogs, all fulltime housedogs.

When I came home from the hospital four days after my hip replacement, the dogs

were all very good with me, even the young ones. The problem was keeping them

off my lap for the first weeks, and for that I just kept my walker in front of

me. I'm afraid it hurt their feelings, but nothing I could do. Our bedroom is

upstairs, and though I had a hospital bed downstairs for the first month, when I

started crutching myself up and down the stairs, I never got knocked down by the

dogs. They've all been trained many years since, that " excuse me " means they

need to move over/move back/move away from me so I can get past. And they are

all very good at understanding and respecting that.

Gail

>

> Hi

> I'm not in Dog agility, but I train and show in Obedience. I am

> scheduled for my TKR September 22

> I started Agility with my Papillon but my knee just couldn't do it.

> I'm still trialling in Utility and Open.

>

> Dorie Madsen

>

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In a message dated 8/22/2009 7:58:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

agileminis@... writes:

Some of these exercises hurt so bad I get nauseous from the pain. I curl on

my side and pant through the waves of pain (much like natural childbirth)

until I can control the pain.

Please tell me you're a knee person not a hipster!

judith

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In a message dated 8/22/2009 9:01:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

caniscaeli@... writes:

Judith,

Mine are hips. I was only given basically three exercises to do, and I

didn't find any of them nearly as painful (no, not even in those first two or

three weeks) as some of those jolts of pain I used to get from my bad hip.

Nor the pain sitting in the car if my hip happened to get itself into the

wrong place. Or the series of painful click-click-click-clicks as that

square femoral head ratcheted into position when I straightened it. If you've

got bad hip(s), you are going to be happier the very next day after it's been

done, as I was.

I can't say I'm looking forward to the other one I'm having replaced in

the fall, but I can say that having had one done, I was very glad to sign up

for the other one.

I too have read posts on this list talking of the pain of exercises. Maybe

I haven't done mine properly, maybe not pushed myself enough, I don't

know. But I sure do enjoy this new hip and its lack of pain anyway.

Gail

Thanks Gail, Your analysis sounds like mine on finally having a herniated

disk remove,dplus some other spinal work. Now and then a hip bone spur

snags the same nerve that was taking a beating there, and reminds me JUST

how much it can hurt.

I told someone else who was facing the same surgery that there has been no

POST op pain that came anywhere near teh PRE op pain.

Here is a question I should ask my guy, once I figure out who my guy will

me (and the hip surgeons do all seem to be men)...my left hip looks

terrible on rads, NO cartilage left within the joint, and it was the first one

to

go bad. It's only withint the past year that the left hip has started u

hurting.

The left one hurts more, the right LOOKS worse..I'm left wondering if it

hasn't been bad so long it's actualy kind of smoothed teh surfaces out by

bone one bone friction?

I mostly just keep stalling becasue I truly cannot figure out how to mange

daily life (with thirty large parrots and big cages) post op. Did the

back surgery, where Blue Cross allowed 3 days in hospital, as an outpatient,

but I was free to bend as much as cut muscles would allow. (The 85-pound

Rottweiler is defintely goig to have to go stay with her trainer.)

judith

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Well, it is great to hear from some other dog lovers on the list. I'm sure

other folks have some pets at home. My dogs are the best therapy - at least

for me. Both of my dogs have been great during my recovery - my youngest

doesn't leave my side most of the day. She insists on sitting on the bed

while I exercise and usually wants to lay on my chest during the heel

slides.

Some of these exercises hurt so bad I get nauseous from the pain. I curl on

my side and pant through the waves of pain (much like natural childbirth)

until I can control the pain. Through it all my little schnauzer is peering

up at my face, waiting to see if I'm OK and leans in to give me a doggy

kiss. That's when I know I'll get through this.

Hope everyone on the list has someone to hug (2 or 4 legged).

I'm very determined to regain my life and being positive is a necessary part

of that process. I cried more in the past year after the arthritis became so

painful than I have since surgery. But everyone is different.

in PA

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Subject: Re: dogs

and Dorie,

I'm not in obedience nor agility, but I am in conformation and field. And

I'd love to try agility and rally if I could. I also have fibromylagia, so

along with my two bad hips (only one bad hip now:-)) I have not been able to

handle my own dogs for a few years now. It's totally frustrating, because

nobody can do it the way I want to do it--like I used to. We have had

setters for thirty years.

Making this hip-replacement related, we have ten dogs, all fulltime

housedogs. When I came home from the hospital four days after my hip

replacement, the dogs were all very good with me, even the young ones. The

problem was keeping them off my lap for the first weeks, and for that I just

kept my walker in front of me. I'm afraid it hurt their feelings, but

nothing I could do. Our bedroom is upstairs, and though I had a hospital bed

downstairs for the first month, when I started crutching myself up and down

the stairs, I never got knocked down by the dogs. They've all been trained

many years since, that " excuse me " means they need to move over/move

back/move away from me so I can get past. And they are all very good at

understanding and respecting that.

Gail

>

> Hi

> I'm not in Dog agility, but I train and show in Obedience. I am

> scheduled for my TKR September 22

> I started Agility with my Papillon but my knee just couldn't do it.

> I'm still trialling in Utility and Open.

>

> Dorie Madsen

>

[Guest guest]

Judith,

Mine are hips. I was only given basically three exercises to do, and I didn't

find any of them nearly as painful (no, not even in those first two or three

weeks) as some of those jolts of pain I used to get from my bad hip. Nor the

pain sitting in the car if my hip happened to get itself into the wrong place.

Or the series of painful click-click-click-clicks as that square femoral head

ratcheted into position when I straightened it. If you've got bad hip(s), you

are going to be happier the very next day after it's been done, as I was.

I can't say I'm looking forward to the other one I'm having replaced in the

fall, but I can say that having had one done, I was very glad to sign up for the

other one.

I too have read posts on this list talking of the pain of exercises. Maybe I

haven't done mine properly, maybe not pushed myself enough, I don't know. But I

sure do enjoy this new hip and its lack of pain anyway.

Gail

Gail -- In Joint Replacement , jarcher107@... wrote:

>

>

> In a message dated 8/22/2009 7:58:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

> agileminis@... writes:

>

>

> Some of these exercises hurt so bad I get nauseous from the pain. I curl on

> my side and pant through the waves of pain (much like natural childbirth)

> until I can control the pain.

>

>

> Please tell me you're a knee person not a hipster!

>

> judith

>

[Guest guest]

I have had both knees and one hip done and the hip was alot less painful for me,

after the first week. Knee rehab hurts. My hip rehab was hard the first week,

then easy and got better. Beats the bone on bone joints. having the other hip

done a week from Monday.

And would do all of them again

Patti

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> From: caniscaeli@...

> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:00:17 +0000

> Subject: Re: dogs

>

> Judith,

> Mine are hips. I was only given basically three exercises to do, and I didn't

find any of them nearly as painful (no, not even in those first two or three

weeks) as some of those jolts of pain I used to get from my bad hip. Nor the

pain sitting in the car if my hip happened to get itself into the wrong place.

Or the series of painful click-click-click-clicks as that square femoral head

ratcheted into position when I straightened it. If you've got bad hip(s), you

are going to be happier the very next day after it's been done, as I was.

> I can't say I'm looking forward to the other one I'm having replaced in the

fall, but I can say that having had one done, I was very glad to sign up for the

other one.

> I too have read posts on this list talking of the pain of exercises. Maybe I

haven't done mine properly, maybe not pushed myself enough, I don't know. But I

sure do enjoy this new hip and its lack of pain anyway.

> Gail

>

>

> Gail -- In Joint Replacement , jarcher107@... wrote:

> >

> >

> > In a message dated 8/22/2009 7:58:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

> > agileminis@... writes:

> >

> >

> > Some of these exercises hurt so bad I get nauseous from the pain. I curl on

> > my side and pant through the waves of pain (much like natural childbirth)

> > until I can control the pain.

> >

> >

> > Please tell me you're a knee person not a hipster!

> >

> > judith

> >

>

>

>

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I have two lhasa apsos and they have been through all my surgeries with me.

They don't leave my side either, usually like to snuggle with me. They wait for

me if I walk slowly. They have this sense, they know. Little( or big) angels.

Patti

lhasa mom

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> From: michaela4424@...

> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:46:37 +0000

> Subject: Re: dogs

>

> , you are so right about dogs. I only have one pup and she is quite the

character. I think at first when she saw me hobbling around on crutches after

surgery she didn't know what to make of me. If dogs could only talk, or maybe

it's best they can't. But my dog, who can be quite active, never once bumped

into my knee. Guess our " kids " can sense when we're not quite right and know

what to do to make us happy at tough times in our life.

>

> I am very blessed to have my pup.

>

> a

>

>

> >

> > Well, it is great to hear from some other dog lovers on the list. I'm sure

> > other folks have some pets at home. My dogs are the best therapy - at least

> > for me. Both of my dogs have been great during my recovery - my youngest

> > doesn't leave my side most of the day. She insists on sitting on the bed

> > while I exercise and usually wants to lay on my chest during the heel

> > slides.

> >

>

>

>

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I've been known to plunk backpacks on the siberian huskies post surgery.

They carry things for me from room to room while I concentrate on the

crutches. Our dogs tend to turn into these cautious careful help mom type

dogs post surgery. At the time of my first hip replacement we had a kennel

of 50+ siberians (we sled), and I couldn't handle not being " in " the kennel

with them for pets.... yup, off I hobbled. Normally they bounce all over

and want to be the first in line for hugs but that was not the case that

day. They almost stopped in their tracks, sniffed and there was a whole

bunch of " sits " while I acknowledged each one. Nothing like some excess

dog hair to cheer a post surgical person up )

Now the house cats - sigh, thats a whole different story.

I started joint replacements when I was 24, and am 51 now and debating my

fourth replacement.

tanya

TACHANKA SIBERIANS

" All Four Paws Rolling "

Wenatchee, WA

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Love it! Dogs do know, and your huskies want to work for you. I wish I could get

my little mop dogs to carry things for me. The breed is not known for it's

ability to " work " . Do you still breed huskies and sled? How is that on your new

joints? Do you feel the cold more ?

The nurse that teaches the joint replacement class at my hospital says dogs and

cats like to nestle right next to the incision/bandage. Mine do that, I don't

know if it is the warmth or that they just want to protect.

I live in the Pacific NW as well-in Portland.

patti

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> From: sibemshr2@...

> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:27:33 -0700

> Subject: RE: Re: dogs

>

> I've been known to plunk backpacks on the siberian huskies post surgery.

> They carry things for me from room to room while I concentrate on the

> crutches. Our dogs tend to turn into these cautious careful help mom type

> dogs post surgery. At the time of my first hip replacement we had a kennel

> of 50+ siberians (we sled), and I couldn't handle not being " in " the kennel

> with them for pets.... yup, off I hobbled. Normally they bounce all over

> and want to be the first in line for hugs but that was not the case that

> day. They almost stopped in their tracks, sniffed and there was a whole

> bunch of " sits " while I acknowledged each one. Nothing like some excess

> dog hair to cheer a post surgical person up )

>

> Now the house cats - sigh, thats a whole different story.

>

> I started joint replacements when I was 24, and am 51 now and debating my

> fourth replacement.

>

> tanya

> TACHANKA SIBERIANS

> " All Four Paws Rolling "

> Wenatchee, WA

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