Sammy and I drove to Bellevue WA to see Dr. Mihai Aluas and get the Tightrope surgery for Sammy. We woke up at 4 AM to get ready and start the trip, but I barely slept anything anyway.
Bellevue, so we ended up taking some country roads, which were also crowded, but we made it on time for our appointment at 8:30 AM.
Dr. Aluas recommended the TTA technique because he had good experiences with it and it's less invasive than the TPLO surgery. The TTA technique relies on changing the forces in the knee to stabilize it by cutting the front of the tibia and pushing it forward with an
spacer. The change of the angle happens without changing the load bearing parts of the tibia, so the technique its a little safer on that regard. Also, if anything goes wrong and the bone breaks under the screws, it's easier to fix a TTA than a TPLO surgery. If we decided to do the TTA we had to wait for 2 weeks and make another trip to Bellevue. We decided to wait and research some more. Dr. Aluas said that there was no urgency to do the surgery as longs as I
keep taking good care of Sammy as I have been doing. He did see some fluid on his knee, which can cause inflammation and therefore pain, but he gave us more medicine to take with us.
Andres.
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