I didn't want to hijack Chops' thread, but did want to tell about Murphy.

We have been on a trip to eastern Washington in our travel trailer. The day before yesterday (which was the day before the one year anniversary of Murphy's accident) we were out doing touristy things. The dog were in the back seat of the pickup, going along for a ride. When we got back to the trailer, we let them down the ramp. As Murphy was coming out, his rear leg sort of collapsed under him. We pulled up on the harness, which he always wear on the ramp, and hef hopped around on the way to the trailer. Went potty, but the leg just didn't seem right. It was terribly reminiscent of how he acted before the THR when his hip would go. We got on the phone to his surgeon and he told me to give him a Tramadol and a Rimidyl. Murphy kept looking back at his leg like he couldn't figure out why it felt like that.

We were to call back to the doc in the morning first thing, and if he wasn't any better, we would make the LONG trip to Sun Valley. There was a bit of concern about whether it might be his knee. Dr Acker was pretty sure that the hip was solid, and there wasn't any sign of pain there or of the bone sticking out the wrong way.

By morning, Murphy was back to his old self. He hasn't shown any sign of weakness in the leg since then. We rescheduled our vet appointment for Saturday, and will have a checkup then. We really wanted to have a one year check anyway, and have been super sensitive about everything he does with the anniversary date here.

This morning, he just couldn't help but scaring his Dad once again, though. They were out for the final morning potty run of our trip, when Murphy did the stop, drop and roll maneuver. The drop part was about enouh to give Dad heart failure!

There has been so much going on here in the past couple of days that I hesitated to say anything, especially since things turned out well. But when I saw the post about Chops, I thought I would share this. We also felt that Murphy's leg had gone to sleep since he was in one place in the back seat for a couple of hours.

Kathi and Murphy who are headed home today