I should never have posted about how well things are going. Last evening, I noticed one of Reilly's knees was swollen. When I felt it, it was a very fluid swelling, such as when sub-que fluids are given. But no pain, redness, heat, oozing, anything but the swelling. Then hubby tells me that Reilly may have fallen yesterday morning. He heard what sounded like a fall, but didn't see it.
So,, I called the ER line at State, and the on-call vet called me back. After a discussion and a lot of questions and answers, she suggested hot-packing it over night and her calling back this morning. So, we hot packed it, and kept Reilly confined. Chris spent a good deal of the night in the mudroom with him. Reilly wanted to play, however, and Chris is not very good at just telling him to down-stay, so little hot-packing happened after I went to bed. However, the swelling is down markedly this morning, and no new symptoms have appeared. The doc was thinking it sounded like a seroma, which would not be a dreadful thing.
Last night he bent his right knee to pee, but stretched the left one. This morning he is again bending both, so that's a good sign.
I'll let you know....
Meg, Reilly and Jake
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