Thank you for all of your thoughts, I'm sorry I hadn't responded sooner - but things took a bad turn. When I picked her up from my local vet Tuesday evening, she was very whiny, but I assumed it was because she was coming off anethesia from her xrays. That evening, she still would not walk and was not responding well to me pinching her skin and bone (which the vet instructed me to do to make sure she had feeling) so I took her into the local ER vet. They looked her over, gave her an exam and some pain medication to make her sleep and they told me to check in with my local vet in the AM - which I did saying that she was still not walking but she was responding better to the pinches, and they told me to bring her in at 4:30 to check her reflexes. When she checked, she did not respond well enough, so my vet prepared to send me to St. Louis to a specialist because of the need for surgery ASAP. We left for St Louis, went to my specialist (MVRC in CHesterfield, MO who Tink sees) but they had no one on staff to perform surgery so they sent me to Veterinary Specialty Services in Manchester MO. My local vet and ER vet were still saying she has a 90% success rate with surgery, but now the surgeon is telling me it's 50/50... which at this time, I refuse to believe... The costs are around $5,000 - which I had not planned on at all.
I don't care the cost, just as long as she can walk again.
I am just so thrown off... it seems most do fine with rest and medications. She didn't do anything in particular to cause this. She is in surgery now, and will likely stay for 5-7 days afterwards. I just hope and pray she can return to a normal happy dog who is pain free....
Thank you for all of your prayers - at least Miss Tink is feeling good
