Okay I guess I messed up now. I did not know we could not put our contest we were in on Yorkie talk and it was a non topic thing?? So here goes.
Babybear as many of you know is a disabled yorkie. He was born with a congenital defect in his neck no one knew about. He jumped off my lap on July 29,2006 and broke his neck. He stopped breathing so my hubby breathed for him to the vets office. He had many tests done and all xrays and blood work. I was told he had no broken bones, but he was paralzyed. His liver levels were high so it was liver shunts. He was very bad though and they wanted me to take him to the ER for the weekend because this happened on a Saturday. I couldn't do that the way his vet was talking he wasn't going to
make it through the weekend. We took him home to be with us. If he was going to pass it was going to be with us not strangers. I stayed up with him all weekend I did not want him to pass alone if he did and I wanted to hold him as much as possible. Well Monday morning came(on Saturday his vet told us to make a decision over the weekend if he was not better we should PHD)
I called and made the appointment to have him pts. I called just before we were supposed to go and told them I could not do it. So I went and got him a second opinion. It turned out that he did have a broken neck and he had a congenital defect called Altantoaxial Instability(AAI for short). He needed surgery. He had it two days later.
When he came home he had to be still for 8 wks. That is usually hard with a 2 year old yorkie. Not him he was still paralyzed. He could move his legs in the back but not the front very well. I did all his therapies for him(still do) and I made him a wheelchair to learn to walk in. Then one was donated to him turned out to be a POS.It did not fit him right or anything. Well 6 weeks ago Babybear got a new cart. I put his picture in a contest and he is a finalist. We are trying to get votes for him to be the winner now.
But I did not know you could not ask for votes on the regular forums and was told my thread was moved here. HMM can't find it so I thought I would start a new one.
Babybear and I would really be honored if you would vote for him. Here is the link to Babybear's photo could you please vote for him??
http://picture.com/display.asp?ID=2443175 You do have our permission to post this to others too.
Also if you would like to see how Babybear is doing and read his story his dogster link is with my signature.
Thank you all for your time.