Ann Brady served as her dissertation advisor. Her dissertation is titled Subverting the Subject Position: Toward a New Discourse About Students as Writers and Engineering Students as Technical Communicators. She was inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa Circle. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication in 2010. Gay attended graduate school at Michigan Technological University in 2008, where she earned a Ph.D. She completed her undergraduate degree at Vermont College of Norwich University, and also earned a master's degree with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Gay began her undergraduate studies at Yale University, but dropped out in her junior year to pursue a relationship in Arizona. Her parents were relatively wealthy, supporting her through college and paying her rent until she was 30. Gay began writing essays as a teenager, with much of her early work being influenced by her experience with childhood sexual violence. She attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Gay was raised Roman Catholic and spent her summers visiting family in Haiti. Her mother was a homemaker and her father is owner of GDG Béton et Construction, a Haitian concrete company. Most dogs (over 90%) are expected to regain a very active and athletic lifestyle with no post-operative complications and without the need for any long-term pain relieving medication.Gay was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Michael and Nicole Gay, both of Haitian descent. **In a TPLO procedure, the tibial plateau, the portion of the tibia adjoining the stifle, is cut and rotated so that its slope changes to approximately 5 degrees from the horizontal plane. This prevents the femur from sliding down the slope of the tibial plateau when the dog puts weight on its knee. Thus surgery generally results in faster recovery times compared to other procedures to stabilize the knee. We are eternally grateful for any help we can get. Please help us get him back on all 4 feet. Opie is only 7 years old, he's athletic, he's got plenty of spunk. Opie's hips look great, and his left side is holding strong, but waiting could result in his healthy side deteriorating.Īnyone who knows us, knows that we would do anything for our dogs, they are our family. This surgery needs to be scheduled sooner rather than later, at the moment Opie is not using his back right leg, causing a lot of stress to his healthy left side. This is his bad knee, notice the bottom bone (tibia) is completely out of place and not being held in place by the ligament. This is his healthy knee, notice the femur and tibia are nicely stacked onto each other.
He will need to be hospitalized for one night, so that he can be monitored, and then will be sent home the next day where we will continue comfort care, and at home rehabilitation.
This surgery will enable Opie to regain full use of his leg (which he has not used since the incident). This clearly happened out of the blue and we were not prepared for such a procedure. After taking Xrays he confirmed that Opie requires TPLO** surgery (a plate and 6 screws to hold his knee in place).
Mahmoud Hussein, DVM of Howell Animal Hospital. On Monday July 16th our primary vet (Belmar-Wall Animal Hospital) confirmed that he likely tore his ACL, and referred us to an orthopedic surgeon. we would later find out that in that moment, he tore his ACL. Opie spotted one of his dog friends, Josie, he play bowed and happily hopped up to greet her, then he stopped and froze for a moment. On Saturday July 14th, Rob and I took the dogs for our evening walk.