"Each night I ask the stars without fail..why must I be a good beagle in jail" With apologies to Dion and the Belmonts, this must be going through Ripley's beagle brain, as he is following his doctors orders to stay calm and heal from his recent back surgery. That doesn't mean he likes this, but it is going to be his fate for the next two weeks until he goes back to Critical Care & Veterinary Specialists of Sarasota, where his doctor Anne Elizabeth Chauvet has given him the absolutely best care and love. We can't say enough about this practice, but what we can say is "it's the absolute top place to take a pet for critical care".
Ripley, however, being the object of Dr. Anne's neurosurgery is less enthusiastic about his current predicament, where he is very restricted in his usual ability to run, jump and climb things. For the next fortnight, he only gets to come out to go out, and for several applications of cold compresses on his back, with plenty of tactile attention. When he came home, they sent not only great instructions on his recovery care, but a great CD explaining in civilian terms all about his issues, which unscientifically might be called a crushed disc.
In med speak, he had a Hemilaminectomy level 1 L1-2 left, and Fenestration T12-13 to L3-4., following an MRI. Now, I'm sort of a car guy, and I know what a Hemi is, and I also learned long ago that the word "defenestration" was from the Latin 'fenestra' or window, and is defined by Webster as "An act of throwing something or someone out of a window". The stock market crash of the late 1920's featured a lot of defenestrations, but recent markets not so much - the windows on Wall Street don't open anymore.
I know Ripley was not thrown out of a window, because the care he got was very special, so maybe I need to ask Dr. Anne when we take him back in two weeks for a check up. Until then, we'll have to explain it with that wonderful phrase ' je ne sais quoi'.
Stay tuned to these blog pages for Ripley updates.
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