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Originally Posted by broodizt  I am crying as I read your post, crying and crying and crying. I don't know why. Thank you for your words   |
I'm sorry to make you cry. I know why you are crying though. No explanation needed. As I was reading other posts about what to watch for, I remembered our Alice (RIP) had a problem with her spine that we found accidentally when she had an X-ray due to her walking on 3 legs all of a sudden. Her abnormality was that her spine was crooked, shaped like the letter C. The vet gave us some meds that worked and we gave them to her judiciously on and off for a while. She got better right away but had episodes from time to time throughout her life. When we talked with the vet, an older man with a real nice "dog-bedside" manner, he said if you just look at the X-ray, you want to cry. But when you look at the dog and see how she adjusted and lived her life as normal as she could, you had to smile. Alice had gotten bad at the end. Falling over and not putting her front paw on the ground properly. It had a name I forgot it. When we brought her in for the kidney symptoms, the young vet thought at first it could be neurological because of the way she held her head and put her front feet down. I'm sorry I'm not describing it better. I'm trying to say that sometimes the dog will adjust in ways a human never could. As someone else said, you have to see what is normal for her. Alice was never "normal" but we knew what was normal for her. The falling at the end and not being able to get up did not seem to hurt her but she would look up at us with this expression of sadness, like "pick me up already!" Her problems were not life threatening but chances are if the kidney failure had not occurred when she was 13, something neurological would probably have been her end. I hope Cassie surprises everyone. Since she has gotten along for five years with this, there is a good chance she can have another five years of life, or more. Oh, and those "Ask" things on the internet are just a money-making scam to get money from people in desperate situations, IMO. I was going through something a few years ago and paid to get an answer but it was just bee ess. I was out the money and made a mental note not to fall for that again. I'm sorry you got those terribly complex answers from the supposed vet online. He or she was obviously hoping for more business, thinking you would pay more to get your answer explained. What a complete jerk! Taking advantage of a Yorkie Mommy who is trying to help her baby. You keep loving her and she'll do whatever is in her power to be a happy Yorkie for as long as possible. All you can do is take care of her, as you are doing. Keep us updated on Cassie's progress. She is in my prayers.