Haven't posted for awhile...thought we were going to loose our Goofus to
Wobblers disease. He's a Year and a couple of months and it was heartbreaking to consider having to end his life in so short a time.
It didn't seem to be fair.
Wife and I talked it over and decided to do everything humanly possible to save him.
We had an MRI done and our fears were well founded. He had five lesions on his vertebra where the spinal cord was being slowly constricted.
Turns out that there is a surgery performed that basically cuts a notch in each effected vertebra allowing the pressure to be released on the nerve bundle. The principal made sense but working that close to the spinal cord involves huge risk. Also, almost 7 hours on the table reduced his chances quite a bit.
Anyway, the day of the surgery it was my task to take him into the surgical appointment. He was pretty scared and pressed up against my leg so hard it was difficult to walk.
We sat in the waiting room and I wondered if we made the right choice.
If it didn't go well, this would be the last time I would see him.
If we didn't do the surgery then he only had a few months at best to live.
Very Very difficult choice.
As they lead him away, he kept looking back at me. It felt horrible beyond
words.
Since my Wife is a Vet, we did our homework and found a Surgeon with top rate references and knew we had done the best we could.
Anyway, I wanted to share the pix we took this morning.
It's been two days since the surgery and he's already walking better and wanting to play. He also seems to be pain free. We won't talk about his appetite....
DT
Wobblers disease. He's a Year and a couple of months and it was heartbreaking to consider having to end his life in so short a time.
It didn't seem to be fair.
Wife and I talked it over and decided to do everything humanly possible to save him.
We had an MRI done and our fears were well founded. He had five lesions on his vertebra where the spinal cord was being slowly constricted.
Turns out that there is a surgery performed that basically cuts a notch in each effected vertebra allowing the pressure to be released on the nerve bundle. The principal made sense but working that close to the spinal cord involves huge risk. Also, almost 7 hours on the table reduced his chances quite a bit.
Anyway, the day of the surgery it was my task to take him into the surgical appointment. He was pretty scared and pressed up against my leg so hard it was difficult to walk.
We sat in the waiting room and I wondered if we made the right choice.
If it didn't go well, this would be the last time I would see him.
If we didn't do the surgery then he only had a few months at best to live.
Very Very difficult choice.
As they lead him away, he kept looking back at me. It felt horrible beyond
words.
Since my Wife is a Vet, we did our homework and found a Surgeon with top rate references and knew we had done the best we could.
Anyway, I wanted to share the pix we took this morning.
It's been two days since the surgery and he's already walking better and wanting to play. He also seems to be pain free. We won't talk about his appetite....
DT
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