Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Another Torn ACL

Over the Christmas break we took Parker (our 2.5 year old chocolate lab) in to the vet and found out that his right back leg has a torn ACL with meniscal damage.  This sounds all too familiar. . . . 

Callie and Andrew (my sis and brother in law) have 2 dogs with 3 torn ACL's between them.  (that's 3 doggie ACL surgeries they have done).  The crazy thing is that NONE of these 3 labs are even close to being related - totally different bloodlines, purchased from totally different parts of Texas.  

Then James has 2 torn ACL's and an MCL - all of which have been repaired by surgery.  So I guess Parker will be the new member of the ACL Surgery Club of our family.  Poor thing.  You can tell by the way he hobbles on 3 legs and just lays around that he is in a lot of pain.  But this coming Friday (the 7th) is his surgery day! I hope Parker will be as excited to get surgery as James was on his last operation . . 

2 comments:

bcmagg said...

I truly regret ever taking this picture.

Joe and Breana said...

Poor Parker! On the flip side, it looks like James was ECSTATIC to have his surgery!=) Love the pic! Also, I LOVE that you're blogging so often! I love reading them!=)