Yeah.. her knee is pretty much the same..i finally remember the name of it.. it's apparently synovial fluid.
Now.. emerg vet had a hissy fit because he said the surgeon did somethiing to the joint capsule.. which caused this fluid.. i talked to the surgeon's office who said he did not, in fact move the joint capsule.. so that was just flat out wrong.
I emailed them the pics, i also emailed my vet the pics.. and spoke to the tech for half an hour because her lab had the same surgery as koda and was dispelling a lot of what the emerg vet said.
So i'm still waiting on some phone calls here.. but basically what i'm being told is this is probably normal.. apply a warm compress throughout the day and it should be fine.
We'll see.. i have an appt for her on Thursday anyways to remove the stitches so i'll get a better idea then.
the one thing that's coming to mind that was a bit of a weird thing with the emerg vet was when he said that not doing a TPLO because of too much arthritis is flat out bullshit.. but i've done a lot of research on this that actually confirms that as being true.. he said he'd never heard of such a thing.
so.. yeah.. still some conflicting support.. but we'll see what my vets and the surgeon has to say.