Well, it's five weeks since the surgery and Niko is still limping quite alot. Apparently the meniscal tear has the ability to possibly make him lame if we don't take his recovery very slow. The TPLO surgery combined with the meniscus tear is what makes his recovery so slow. He was walking the other day and stepped off a curb at an angle and his leg gave out and he hurt himself. Even the simple task of walking him slow is difficult. You have to make sure that he walk up and down a curb at a 90 degree angle so as to avoid his placing his feet wrong.
Yesterday at physical therapy VOSM (the surgery center) checked to make sure that he didn't re-injure himself and that the pins weren't jarred lose. Fortunately, nothing serious happened and he was ready to try his water treadmill therapy.
It was pretty cool as the water quickly frilled the treadmill booth and when they turned on the treadmill he had to keep up with the speed or his rear end would hit the back wall. All in all, I think he loved it.
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