SoNotNic 🐍🐉🐈Apr 2, 2023

Candycorn on her special orthopedic cooling bed. Candycorn doesn't have any femoral heads. Her femurs just stop. There is no ball for the ball-and-socket hip joint. We have no kittenhood medical records, but the U of MN orthopedic vets believe she had asymptomatic avascular necrosis of the femoral head as a kitten. We did not discover this until she was 9 years old. Thread 1/5

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The orthopedic cooling mat isn't because Candycorn is missing both of her femoral heads. There is a mass of scar tissue called a false joint that works well enough. The problem is that her femur doesn't line up quite right with her knees, and now that she's older her knees are starting to bother her. We bought a much larger orthopedic cooling mat for our giant breed dog and Candycorn loves it. She was obviously much more comfortable there than anywhere else, so we got her one of her own.
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Apr 2, 2023 at 11:23pmWeb