Poor Sid - Tripod With Corn. Updated

[4My2Greys]

I am a nervous wreck. While I was there I was convinced we were doing the right thing (and so was DH), but now I have this fear that we'll lose him.

Please don't let your mind go there .

Try to focus on him being able to enjoy his walks again once his foot has healed.

White light and healing prayers are being sent out for Sid for a successful surgery and speedy recovery.

[silverfish]

Please don't let your mind go there .

Try to focus on him being able to enjoy his walks again once his foot has healed.

White light and healing prayers are being sent out for Sid for a successful surgery and speedy recovery.

 

Thank you, yes, that is what I would tell anyone else!

[spottydog]

Best wishes for you and your boy - hope his procedure fixes things up.

[2greyhoundMINI]

Fingers crossed this is successful and Sid is his usual tripod self again!

 

Way to be an awesome mom

[silverfish]

I so appreciate the support here. I haven't been on Greytalk so much lately, but it's good to know there are always people here who understand!

 

Here's the update (if you're friends with me on Facebook you'll see pretty much the same thing there, sorry):

I've just had the call. Sid is awake and comfortable.

They took out a corn of about 1/2 cm deep. Certainly enough to cause him considerable pain, poor old guy. The thinking is that it's been making him walk in a more-than-usually distorted way which has been hurting his back and other places and that now it's gone, he should recover nicely and be able to walk properly again. I certainly hope so!

They x-rayed his hip, which showed a minimal amount of arthritis a couple of years ago and don't see any major changes - nothing that would account for the amount of limping, which is good. We'll have to see if the back pain goes away once he's over the corn. Fingers crossed on that one.

They'll update us with his progress tomorrow. I'm feeling relieved right now!

[Guest IrskasMom]

Sid has come so far and please Think positive . I know how hard it is . Please give him some extra Ear Scritchies and Hugs

[2greyhoundMINI]

Great news! Thx for the update! We all worry when a hound goes in for surgery on here.

Hopefully he will realize he's not in pain anymore and will begin to walk normal again.

[Batmom]

Ow, that was not a small corn. Hope he makes a good recovery!

[tbhounds]

Glad to hear he's up and doing well :-)

[silverfish]

Ow, that was not a small corn. Hope he makes a good recovery!

 

I have no previous experience of corns, but I thought it was likely to be pretty painful at that size! The funny thing - well, the odd thing - is that it's only in the last couple of weeks that I've been able to see a faint circle on the surface of his pad and my vets were still unwilling to dx a corn. He's been having trouble walking from time to time for over a year though, poor old thing. I'm really hoping it was just the corn growing!

[Remolacha]

Glad it is over and he is recovering well! Also, glad they didn't find a foreign body or anything else bad

[GreyPoopon]

That's a deep corn!

 

I hope he is soon feeling better and walking without pain.

[zoesmommy]

Don't know what to say except that I am very happy that he is feeling better.

Hugs to you both.

Take care.

 

[silverfish]

Thank you for all your good wishes, scritches etc! I don't have him here with me right now or I'd give them to him. He has to stay in hospital for a day or two, being a tripod.

The more I think about it, the worse half a centimetre of corn sticking into his foot sounds.

[brandimom]

Wishing the very best with this procedure. We did surgery and we would never do it again. My pup was bedridden for mos and we had to carry her outside to go potty. We have the therapaw boot crushy pad boot and she no long limps on her corns.

[silverfish]

As soon as I can measure him properly, I'm going to get a Thera-Paw boot to try. I don't care how many I buy and waste if I end up finding a good one for him that he will accept. So far the only ones he'll wear are Woodrow Wear knitted socks with a Pawz boot over the top. It's better than nothing, but not terribly cushy.

 

We've tried Mikki, Neo-Paws, Voyager, and 'Sport & Protective' boots. He won't have anything to do with any of them. He just high-kicks his leg out and sideways and ends up crippling himself so he can't walk at all for three or four days. Either that or he statues and won't move at all. To be fair, the Mikki boots were a bit big for him, I think.

Edited February 11, 2014 by silverfish

[silverfish]

Sid is home! He's doing extraordinarily well! He practically towed me along the corridor to the exit! He has no stamina though, and starts panting very quickly. He's sleeping peacefully right now. Fortunate, if he doesn't want to walk far, because he's not allowed to do more than go out for a pee in the garden for a whole month while it heals.

I misunderstood the vet the other day. The corn was not half a centimetre, but nearer to ONE centimetre deep! Yikes... that must have been so painful.

[Remolacha]

So glad that Sid is home! And walking?! Yay Sid!!

[2greyhoundMINI]

Horray for Sid being home!

 

Hope he heals quickly. It's tough trying to not have them walk and move around much.

[tbhounds]

He will most likely feel better now even while he heals than having that damn corn in there. I have assisted with corn surgeries--those suckers can go very deep-I have seen them go right up to the digital flexor tendon. We hate those little suckers!!!

[silverfish]

Tracy - the surgeon said he had to go right up to the bone to get this one completely out.

How did the corn dogs do after the surgical removals? How soon did you get them back in with a regrowth or new one?

Sid had a very comfortable night. I kept hearing him doing the 'happy groan' as he stretched out and made himself more comfortable. He's looking bright and alert, and he hopped through from the bedroom this morning looking easier on his feet, which really surprised me. I'm sure with a wound that deep in one of my feet I wouldn't be so happy! Dogs are amazing.

[tbhounds]

Tracy - the surgeon said he had to go right up to the bone to get this one completely out.

How did the corn dogs do after the surgical removals? How soon did you get them back in with a regrowth or new one?

Sid had a very comfortable night. I kept hearing him doing the 'happy groan' as he stretched out and made himself more comfortable. He's looking bright and alert, and he hopped through from the bedroom this morning looking easier on his feet, which really surprised me. I'm sure with a wound that deep in one of my feet I wouldn't be so happy! Dogs are amazing.

Sounds like he's doing really well. Any corn surgery that I have been involved with would have to be considered very successful. Pm sweetdogs so she can relay her experience.

[silverfish]

That's encouraging! I'll PM Sweetdogs and see if she can give me any tips for recovery. Thank you!

[4My2Greys]

I've been thinking of Sid, how is is his foot healing?

[silverfish]

How kind of you!

 

Sid is doing really well. He was up on his feet very quickly after the surgery and we could soon take up the mats we had outside to cushion the patio a little bit (they were weighted down with bricks so were kind of difficult to negotiate once he was going out on his own) and he now gets out, round the curves and up to the grass very smoothly and is walking nice and straight compared to the way he was creased up before.

 

He went for a bandage change today and the wound is doing really nicely. However he is beginning to look sore between the toes, and on the top of his foot, despite the wonderful padding they do. It's completely dry though, no sign of weeping anywhere. The nurse padded him up nicely again with lint between each toe and between his pads at the bottom, and all the way up to the top of the bandage. Last time they put zinc oxide plaster at the top to keep it all in place and that took the fur off and made his skin red, so she left it off this time.

We're doing frequent changes, and we're keeping him off it as much as possible, but we're only halfway through his four weeks till the stitches come out and he might need padding even after that.

 

He's SO much happier, though. He had begun to turn his foot outward to keep the weight off that toe, but it had the effect of unbalancing him and hurting his back. He's placing it more normally now. I think it'll be a while before it actually turns inward as it used to, but we're getting there!

 

Thank you for asking!