its a peice of piss.
surgery takes anything from 2-5 hours depending on the type of implant and the skill of the surgeon. he wont be able to get out of bed for 5 days post of. 6 weeks of little movement, then lots of physio. he will also have to be careful of dislocating it for the rest of his life, certain positions will just make it pop right out.
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:30, archived)

The last bit of your post makes me feel queasy
:(
( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:31, archived)

you should see the operation!
its the most violent thing you can do to a human legally.

it involves slide hammer, drills thigh reamers. and something that resembles a round cheese grater to bore into the pelvis.
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:33, archived)

I hate you

( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:34, archived)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL3dNIuQp4E
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:40, archived)

I love seeing them.
I fucking hate cleaning up after them, though. Tons of stuff to pack and sterilise.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:35, archived)

the worse bit is finding the lumps of bone all over the place..
they crack like popcorn when you step on them.
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:36, archived)

Nice.
I saw a few spinal ops in the last few weeks, they use pliers to snap off bits of the spine to use as bone graft.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:39, archived)

they have the best name in the world
they are called bone nibblers
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:41, archived)

Awesome.

( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:42, archived)

www.b3ta.com/talk/6166595
( Fluzzy namby-pamby pudding and pie, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:41, archived)

'fraid not.
I'm a clinical scientist, I was only there to see the spinal cord monitoring.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:43, archived)

I'll be having that too :)
*rather nervous*
( Fluzzy namby-pamby pudding and pie, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:44, archived)

Nice.
Don't worry, you won't feel them passing electricity through your spine.
Seriously though, they do a good job.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:51, archived)

electricity and spines
never did doctor frankensteins creations any harm now did it.
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:53, archived)

We've come a long way.
Don't have to wait for the lightning strikes any more, and they usually don't go insane.
Usually.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:54, archived)

do they still do the jiggly dance?

( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Thu 21 May 2009, 21:02, archived)

We have to pay extra for that

( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 21 May 2009, 21:04, archived)

We don't seem to get much bone on our floor, now you mention it.
Jez is probably too anal to let any fall.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:43, archived)

to be fair,
i wouldnt imagine there was much to throw about on something the size of a cat..
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:45, archived)

We don't do them on cats, they get femoral head and neck excisions, a pseudo joint forms, and they're grand.
Cats have brilliant bones. We usually do them on big ones like labs and weimaraners.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:48, archived)

psuedo joint?
do the ends just round off or something?
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:50, archived)

what no pick axe
hacksaw or lasers?
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:35, archived)

and then the oiled midgets in leather come in
I've seen this film before
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:35, archived)

Do you work in this area?
Ever seen a laminectomy?
( Fluzzy namby-pamby pudding and pie, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:40, archived)

sorry, spinal is one of the few things i have never seen.
i have done max fax, cardiac, transgender, plastics, A+E and trauma, and abdominal. isnt laminectomy taking the edges off of a vertebrae?
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:45, archived)

Yeah, opening up the spine to work on the cord within

( Fluzzy namby-pamby pudding and pie, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:46, archived)

you will be fine..
i have seen the stuff they put the patients in for spinal surgery, you will be locked down tighter than a nuns chuff. where are you getting it done?
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:49, archived)

Royal London in Whitechapel

( Fluzzy namby-pamby pudding and pie, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:50, archived)

oh, christ, you are fucked...

( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:51, archived)

only kidding.
there are only 1 or two better places to get spinal done. and they are all trained in the same place anyway, so its all good.
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:52, archived)

Git! :D
They can't make me much worse anyway.
( Fluzzy namby-pamby pudding and pie, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:53, archived)

yeah they can.
but statistically they are VERY unlikely to.
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:57, archived)

*blinks*
why?
( Fluzzy namby-pamby pudding and pie, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:52, archived)

you`ll get diddled whilst under the knife.

( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:54, archived)

Cool, I'd love to see transgender.
I'll never see that. Unless things in veterinary science change drastically.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:46, archived)

Or you change career :)

( Fluzzy namby-pamby pudding and pie, Thu 21 May 2009, 21:05, archived)

thats nothing
I have done jet set willy,maniac miner,monty mole and horace and the spiders.
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:47, archived)

I've seen it done on daschunds
very very cool op and good recovery time.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 21 May 2009, 21:07, archived)

Like jumping off a couch, which Rusty's owners decided to let him do less than a week after his surgery.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:35, archived)

nah,
but if he was gay, bending over on his knees so he could be slipped a length would make it spang right out.
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:37, archived)

ohh watch me hip as you prod me prostate

( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:38, archived)

pretty much.

( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:39, archived)

His owners are so retarded.
They were told STRICT cage rest, walk only on lead, and then they moaned when he had to have more surgery. He's doped up to the eyeballs on ACP now 'til he heals.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:45, archived)

Oh christ, the amount of owners we've had doing that when they've JUST had a TPLO is stupid.
We had one come out from cage rest with us for 3 days for the owner to open the tail gate of their car and tell the dog to jump up into it. Nearly fucking killed her.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:57, archived)