Tuggles & Surgery

Spiral fracture of tibia

Over the weekend we adopted a dog named Tuggles! We rescued him from an organization called S.A.S.S. (Shelly's Angel Saving Strays). Before we adopted him we knew that he got hit by a car in his foster home in Tennessee and got a spiral fracture in his back left tibia but the vet in Tennessee (who operated on him after the accident) cleared him for adoption. After having him for a few days he started limping and not running as much so we took him to CUVS and talked to Dr. Serrano and Dr. Kramer and they said he had to have Surgery. We took x-rays of his leg and found out that the doctors who did the
surgery in Tennessee had wrapped wires around his leg when he was little without judging he was going to grow so he has wires digging into his bone and that they took out the last screw in the plate so now his leg is crooked. On top of all that they left a drill bit in there! Its insanity! Tuggles is at CUVS now having surgery.                    

-Lily