{"id":56,"date":"2004-04-15T23:17:19","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T04:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2004\/04\/katie_followup\/"},"modified":"2012-10-14T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T19:53:53","slug":"katie_followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2004\/04\/katie_followup\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks 8 weeks since Katie&#8217;s surgery (see the update at <A HREF=\"\/ted\/2004\/03\/katies_surgery_1\/\">4 weeks<\/A>). She seems about 95% recovered, barely limping and being pretty normal. But I know she can&#8217;t really run at full speed or jump as high as she usually does. I took her in this morning and the vet was very pleased with her x-rays. But there is still a pretty substantial gap on one side of the bone where new bone hasn&#8217;t filled in yet. That&#8217;s normal and he says that at this point there&#8217;s almost no chance that she could do anything to mess up the surgery, like pull out a screw or bend the plate.<\/p>\n<p>That means I can start taking her on walks up to the full 2 miles over the next few weeks. After 8 more weeks she will have another follow-up visit and hopefully be given a clean bill of health to do regular Katie stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lucy is staying with me for a week while her owners are on vacation. She&#8217;s a very cute little version of Katie with a *lot* of energy. Since she&#8217;s an only dog in her house she&#8217;s used to getting all the attention and toys and it doesn&#8217;t work that way in my house. Still she&#8217;s have a lot of fun and everyone is getting along well.<\/p>\n<p>See the <A HREF=\"\/ted\/2004\/09\/katies_triumpha\/\">conclusion<\/A> to this series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks 8 weeks since Katie&#8217;s surgery (see the update at 4 weeks). She seems about 95% recovered, barely limping and being pretty normal. But I know she can&#8217;t really run at full speed or jump as high as she usually does. I took her in this morning and the vet was very pleased with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2004\/04\/katie_followup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Katie follow-up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}