Poor Sadie Mae

Our poor puppers has had a rough week.
About 2 years ago Sadie tore her CCL (similar to the human ACL) in her right knee. We had emergency surgery with a German orthopedic vet. We, of course, lived on the 2nd floor and I was 5 months pregnant with Jack. Which posed a problem. We used a towel under her hips to get her up and down the stairs and it was about a 5 month recovery period until she was allowed to go on long walks and run again. We knew that it's common for the other knee to give out with-in 2 years of the first instance. Well, sure enough....
The day after Christmas we were all out in the back yard playing. Jack was running laps around the yard and we were playing catch with Sadie. All of a sudden we heard a yelp and that was it. Sadie wasn't using her left leg. Tom and I both knew exactly what happened. The sad part is, I caught it on video. I was filming Jack doing monkey laps and laughing and Sadie was in the background. I feel so bad for her. She's only 3 and has had 2 major knee surgeries. Her whole young life is being spent recovering and being confined. It's just so sad.
We found an amazing vet in Monterey that does ortho surgeries. They did some x-rays and gave us interesting results. Apparently Sadie has something genetically wrong with the shape of her femurs. So tearing her CCLs wasn't just wear and tear. Due to the shape her bones were grinding through her ligaments. It was just bound to happen. So she had surgery on Wednesday. They kept her over night and we picked her up Thursday. Everything went really well. There were no surprises, it was a fully torn CCL. She's now spending her days tucked in the corner of our living room wearing her cone. We take her back to the doctor in 2 weeks. I hope she's feeling better soon. It's horrible to see a Golden Retriever with those sad eyes and a bare back end. :-(