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Oh we are so sorry, but you are a fighter, girl, we know that you will be OK.
Now, did the vet get any answers from the vet school yet? What happened with that? Is the vet saying to up your dosage of meds until the answers come back, or just as an indefinite sort of measure?
What vet school is looking at your case?
-Jerry
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Thanks for all of your wishes. It is the vet college in Prince Edward Island, Canada. We live in New Brunswick and they are the only ones in Atlantic Canada. That is where she had her amputation. The vet college called our home vet back and said she didn't see anything major like degeneration of the spine or "wabbles" they are still treating it like a herniated disk. Her range of motion of her neck is very limited and she is "yelping" when she moves a certain way. The vet told me to begin with that the only way to make sure we know what we are dealing with is to have a mylogram done which is about $800.And even with that, if they determine she needs surgery it will be another $1000 at least and that is only if her "blood platlets" are up. Thank god the vet wanted to try one last thing last time because it worked but I am afraid that her condition won't accept the treatment this time.
Thanks for the website. I will go on and poke around when I get to work. That's the other thing. My husband and co-workers think I am going to drive myself "crazy" trying to self-diagnose her.
Sasha and Sherry
Hi there, my sister's dog, Jay-Li (Pikanese) had more or less the same symptoms - it turned out that she hurt the bonemarrow in her back. (Does that make sense?) Although there was no wound or blood or anything that we could see wrong, the fluid (bonemarrow) was literrally coming out of her back (under the skin)... sipping through the damaged disks/bone... She was in sooo much pain - he back legs became numb and they also started to "turn inwards". She went for a MRI scan and that was the only way that they could see the damage. No paid meds helped - she had to spend the night in hospital on a drip of morphine before they operated the next day - it was very expensive - R7000 - which is more or less USD 1000. I hope that the vet can find out what is really wrong with Sasha - please keep us updated. And NO - there is nothing wrong with trying to find a way to heal your Sasha. Good luck, Ansunette & Dee xx
It sounds like you have a good team on your side. But still, it doesn't hurt to do your own research and present your findings/questions to the vets. The internet can be a good thing / bad thing, in that there's so much information out there, humans can really freak themselves out with all of it. Just try to stay calm, and keep in mind that there can be a number of pawsibilities about Sasha's condition, try not to focus on the worst case scenarios.
Ok, so here is something that our friend Jessie found for you to consider. This PDF is very clinical, and does present best/worst case scenarios from a veterinarian perspective, so if you think it's too much information for you right now, you may not want to read it. But just in case, here it is;
Canine Intervertebral Disc Disease
And two more resources that Jessie just sent;
http://www.vetm.....scdis.html
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