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08/05/2015 Barb, You and Body Code just continue to amaze me! As you know…I came home the other night and found my 11 yr old Dalmatian with a very swollen leg. Not sure if he sprained it or somehow managed to fracture the leg and/or possibly something even worse is going on. (do NOT EVER google “health concerns for older dogs with swollen legs”) when its 3am and you are worried sick about your beloved pet. I guarantee you will NOT sleep easy. The background on his issue is this… he seemed fine the day before when I left for work…full of energy, bright eyed, alert and interested in everything around him. I came home that night and when I let him out to do his business…I noticed he was limping slightly on one of his hind legs. In all honesty I did not think much of it because he is an old arthritic guy and occasionally he limps when he has laid on his legs wrong or been a little too active or even stepped on a piece of gravel in the driveway. He ate his dinner and then curled up next to me while I was working at my desk for the next couple of hours. I let him out once again before I went to bed and again noticed the slight limp as he came back into the house. He seemed fine though UNTIL he went to jump up on my bed, seemed to struggle to get up…let out a yelp and the and literally fell off the side of the bed and onto the floor. I ran over to him and tried to help him get up but I must have grabbed the injured part because he cried and yelped as I tried to get him back to his feet. Once I had him standing, I looked over his back legs and noticed immediately that his left hind leg was horribly swollen at the knee joint almost all the way up to his hindquarters. I phoned the after-hours emergency vet clinic (only one in town) and received some basic advice but I did not have the money to take him there just then. (In the morning, I did make an appointment for him on the following Thursday (payday of course)…and was told to keep him quiet as possible and do compresses on the leg until that time). I am lucky because most of the vets in town know me from long years of working with them with various animals, so luckily they were comfortable with giving me a bit more info than most folks would receive). I woke up the next morning and in spite of the compresses his leg had swollen to an even larger size. I went off to work but was worried sick and ended up leaving halfway through my shift to get home to him early. He was laying on the bed…didn’t want to move…didn’t want any water …didn’t want to walk at all…and I almost had to carry him (100 pound dog)…outside to go to the bathroom. He fell as he was walking back in and I had to help him up to the bed again. The issue had definitely worsened just in the time I had been at work. The swollen area was now hot and hard and he seemed feverish and lethargic. I phoned the after-hours vet clinic again and they suggested waiting till morning to see my regular vet who would have access to better diagnostic equipment. Right about now I was crying and pretty frantic… I was so incredibly worried that I was going to lose my old guy and even more worried that the vet was going to find something wrong like a broken hip/leg and the surgery would be so incredibly expensive that I wouldn’t be able to afford it. So then I would have to make that horrible choice all pet owners have to make at some point in time. Then I remembered what you had done for a long term issue of mine with an injured thumb/hand a few months previously. So I wrote you about what was going on with him and you ran the Body Code on him and immediately came back to me and said to stop being so upset…he was going to be fine. Muscle testing had shown it was a bacterial infection and you had cleared it and that I should see an improvement very soon. Um..yeah…right. (I will admit I doubted it) but at the same time…you had already fixed my thumb/hand when none of the doctors had come close to healing it. And also..just hearing someone say he was going to be all right gave me so much hope. So I laid with my ole guy all night…dozing off and then jerking awake to check on him and to try and make him as comfortable as I could and finally fell sound asleep around 2am. I woke up around 6am..and he was asking to go outside….the leg was still extremely swollen…but his attitude seemed better…he was more alert…and he took a long drink of water when he came back inside and his nose was moist and cool instead of dry and hot. I went back to sleep feeling slightly better about his chances. I woke back up at 11am (I work midnight shift)…and when I rolled over on my side…guess who was sitting up and looking at me!! Then I checked his leg and the swelling was already down by at least half!!!!!!! I literally could not believe it and kept checking and rechecking! Let him outside again to pee and helped him back up on the bed and went to shower. Came back to my bedroom about an hour later and he was up and asking for breakfast! I checked the leg and the swelling was still visible but it was down enough that I could finally feel his leg for breaks without him whimpering and yelping. I couldn’t feel any break or dislocation at all…it seemed to be strictly a soft tissue issue. I went to work, happy and hopeful! Came home to a happy bright eyed boy  It took another 24 hours and the leg was back to normal with just a slight limp that disappeared within a week. I had the leg x-rayed later that week and the vet said there was no bone damage or involvement at all and gave my boy a clean bill of health! Barb! I thank you so very much!