04/09/2024
BAXTER AND PEPPER UPDATE:
Hey guys, me Baxter. Today was a big day for me and Pepper. We started the day early with the roosters. First, we took a car ride to pick up Pepper from her foster home. Then we both went to visit our friends at Eagle Animal Hospital in Riverside MO. Our foster parents had visited with us last night to help us understand what would happen today. We both had a FHO surgery in hopes we will walk better and not hurt when we heal. Dr. Read made sure we were nice and sleepy before he started. And when we woke up, Dawn took real good care of us along with the rest of the staff. They all think we are cute. (blushing) Dr Read thinks that Pepper’s is osteonecrosis from an early age and he thinks mine is from trauma. Now the next 8 plus weeks will be healing and starting physical therapy. But Pepper and I are ready to work hard and make our foster parents proud.
Thank you to everyone who has donated, shared and sent prayers.
An FHO, or femoral head ostectomy, is a surgical procedure that aims to restore pain-free mobility to a diseased or damaged hip by removing the head and neck of the femur (the long leg bone or thighbone).