Mal and I made a joint decision to get a second opinion about Rosie’s leg as even with the pain killers, she was still hopping around on three legs. I have to say that my favoured vet is Mehmet at Animalia in Lefkoşa. We previously went to the vet in Alsancak thinking that it was always handy to know the nearest vet in an emergency.
Mehmet firstly gave Rosie her annual boosters and then examined Rosie’s leg and got Mal to listen to the click and where it was. It is in her knee joint and not in her hip. I immediatley thought of our last Goldie, Barney who snapped first one of his cruciate ligaments and the year after a second, both obviously needing surgery. Mehmet said no surgery (thank goodness) but he would give her a course of cortisone injections. He gave her one while we were there and filled four phials for the next four days, saying that we could give them to her!!!! Mal immediatley said that he couldn’t do it. Oh well, my dog, my problem! I watched to see how he did it and took the four syringes.
We now have to ring him on Monday to see how Rosie is doing and she may have to have more, spaced over three day intervals.
So, full examination and diagnosis, Rosie’s annual boosters, 5 cortisone injections….total cost 90tl! I think that would probably be the price of crossing the threshold at a vets in the UK.
Rosie much prefers Mehmet to any other vet. She has a wee outside and then runs in. Others we have been to I have to drag her in and then she promptly wees on the floor. Far less embarrasment at this one! She doesn’t bother about the injections either.
Back home and we decided we woould go out to eat. We hadn’t actually decided where to go but as we drove through Alsancak, we saw a board outside B and I saying they had Kleftiko on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
As usual a very warm welcome and of course we both chose the Kleftiko…it was very good. It arrived in foil, with potatoes and onion that had been baked in the clay oven with it. Also we had a plate of salad each, rice,yoghurt and village bread (brown). It was 23tl for the kleftiko, 4tl for an Efes, 2.5tl for a Yedigun and complimentary Turkish coffees with water. It is a huge meal. I even took some of the meat home for Rosie.
Thought for the Day – “I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt and I am convinced that basically dogs thinks humans are nuts.” ~ John Steinbeck