I'm sooo sorry
@hazelmoo !! That stinks!! My dog just had his second TPLO last week. Two years apart so that was nice, but yeah, not covered by out insurance due to rupturing the other side already. The recovery can be a lot of work on the owner's end, too. We spend 45 minutes/day (15 min 3x) doing passive ROM exercises and then another 30 mins (10 min 3x) icing. He was an odd duck this second time around. No positive drawer test, pain on hyperextension, joint effusion, and lameness. He went in for an exploratory on Wednesday. The craniomedial band of his cranial cruciate ligament was intact. His surgeons called in another faculty member for their opinion on how to proceed. They said, "cut the craniomedial band, and you will find a ruptured caudolateral band". That's what they found, and then they proceeded with a TPLO. At his discharge, they said they were definitely caught off guard by him. But if this surgery is as successful as his first one, then he will be rocking two solid knees.
All the best to your puppy and I'm sorry you can't be there with him!!