Well, it has been a rough couple of days for our dog Leroy and the family. We found him Sunday night in the grass not able to move. We don't know what he did? We think he jumped off one of the hills in the yard and just landed the wrong way. He couldn't move his back legs. Austin took him to the vet on Monday and they did some x-rays and he didn't break his neck and the spinal cord looks good, but he is paralyzed on the left side. The next step was to schedule an appointment with the nureologist to have an MRI to do Surgery. We called the nuerologist who told us an MRI would be 1,700.00 with surgery costing anywhere from 5,000 to 8,000. Yikes! We were going to cancell our trip to Hawaii to help pay for this until the nuerologist said even with surgery he would not be able to go up and down stairs, run etc. That the risk of reinjury is pretty much a given! Oh this has been so hard! So we were told we could give him steroids and that in a lot of cases the steroids can relieve the inflamation around the nerves and he could regain some movement. We are waiting to see. Poor guy is just lying around in his diaper. Please think happy thoughts!
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