Since Oskar is getting a fully body CT scan to check for any indications of cancer, we are trying to make the most of the sedation time to get detail studies of his left hind leg and front right elbow. The hind leg is to check to see if he does have a CCL tear and if so, how well it’s healing. His right front elbow is a bit weird. Since he was less than a year old, he’ll start favouring his front right leg if he’s been playing for too long or too rough. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it comes on quickly but also seems to resolve quickly. Too quickly to get him seen when he’s actively lame. He did have a series of x-rays done of both his hips and his elbows to see if there were any obvious defects when it first started to happen. Nothing abnormal was detected. But elbows are notoriously difficult to x-ray and it’s been 2 years. Hopefully x-rays from every angle will give us a better idea of what we are dealing with so we can make a plan that will effective for him. And it’s a nice distraction to think of the CT scan as looking for a potentially easily solvable ortho problem rather than looking for an aggressive form of cancer that, if present, will likely kill him.

Well, that’s what we thought when we went in for the appointment….

The ortho consult went as expected. Oskar was an absolute legend and let the orthopaedic surgeon examine him every which way. The only difficult part was trying to get him to stand up when all he wanted to do was cuddle up in her lap a couple times. From the exam, nothing remarkable came out. If there is a problem, we have likely caught it early and we can adjust our activity to accommodate whatever is going on. I felt physically relieved when