Georgie’s (aka the Gremlin’s) leg surgery

This is Georgie aka The Gremlin. My pride and joy, my baby.



 I got him as a rescue around 3 years ago and he has been attached to my hip since.

When he was about one years old his leg was broken and he was surrendered to a shelter. The wonderful people at Precious Pal’s Pet Rescue saved him from the shelter and paid for his operation on his broken leg. I adopted him around a year later and life has been good and happy for us until this January when to my horror I noticed metal sticking out from his leg...yes, the plate that was in place started to reject and broke through his skin. 

It had been about three years and the break should have been healed so the original surgeon opted to remove the plate. 

Fast forward to two weeks post op and the vets rebandaging letting me know his leg looked floppy and at a weird angle. After X-rays it was confirmed that yes indeed it was broken. But at the time his bone still had holes in it from removed screws and really was just in too much of a fragile state to repair via surgery so the option was to splint it up and just let it heal....

Fast forward another 6 weeks and the vets once again telling me it doesn’t look like it’s healing.

Well I was able to get him into the orthopedic specialist here in town right away luckily and the Vet I got is actually the headof surgery . It turns out that the break was not a new break but actually along the original fracture and that it never had truly healed. The bones had healed over and the gap had filled with a fibrous tissue rather than hard bone.

It boils down to two options. Either amputate ( which I see only as a final option as he still has all feeling and movement in his limb) or we have surgery again. 

And he is confident that he can fix it and that he will have full functionality and no issues. The surgery will include a bone graft, shaving down the previous bone that had healed over and a new plate and screws that are smaller and more suitable forhis bone size. 

He will need to stay overnight and then will be casted for a few weeks post op. 

The estimated cost for the surgery is $3500-$4000 with a $2600 deposit.

They can get him in as soon as tomorrow but I just don’t have enough right now as I don’t get paid until Thursday and I am still waiting on the stimulus and my tax return to come back and I just paid all of my bills. 

I really hope to get him in ASAP so that he can get back to being the fun and happyactive puppy that he deserves to be.

I just want him to have the best and Athena most full and pain free life as possible. He has been through so much already. 

any amount helps you guys.... seriously.

much love in advance from the gremlin and me. Xo