Bigrupp
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Well, I spent the last week in North Carolina at a couple of conferences, which was fun and all, but I'm moving next Friday so I really would have rather been home. I've been so excited about moving that I don't really remember much of the crap they talked about at the conferences. Anyways, I got home on Friday to find that my sliders from Demello Offroad finally showed up, so another thing to be excited about, although with everything else going on I'm not sure when I'll get to put them on.
So, we were having a moving sale on Saturday morning so I can get rid of a bunch of stuff so I don't have to move it. We were taking stuff outside and I was coming back into the house and the dogs were right there on my heels as they just love to be in the way. Chip, my chocolate lab, came through the door and his rear end hit the floor. He tried to get up and couldn't. His rear left leg was sticking straight out and he wasn't moving it. My first thought was that he had dislocated something. I laid him down and was checking him over. He didn't seem to be in any pain, but the look on his face definitely let me know that something was wrong. I took him into the vet, and after a few x-rays and talking to a surgeon from Colorado State University and another one locally they diagnosed him with a Fibrocartilagenous Embolism (FCE). Basically it's like a stroke, but it happens in the spine and he's mostly paralyzed in the back end. The big thing is whether he will be able to go pee and poop on his own. He currently has a catheter, so it's hard to say, but he hasn't crapped yet.
I'm tore the hell up, and my wife isn't doin any better. This was supposed to be a good week. Our other puppy, a yellow lab, is heartbroken without her brother/chew toy here. I can deal with him not being able to walk, but if the rest of him isn't working I'm afraid I'm gonna have to make the choice that I really don't wanna have to make. Damn dogs anyways.....
Sorry I kind of rambled on, but it's been somewhat therapeutic to type this all. I suppose that's one of the things I really love about this forum, the support you receive from people. Well, I suppose that's about it.
So, we were having a moving sale on Saturday morning so I can get rid of a bunch of stuff so I don't have to move it. We were taking stuff outside and I was coming back into the house and the dogs were right there on my heels as they just love to be in the way. Chip, my chocolate lab, came through the door and his rear end hit the floor. He tried to get up and couldn't. His rear left leg was sticking straight out and he wasn't moving it. My first thought was that he had dislocated something. I laid him down and was checking him over. He didn't seem to be in any pain, but the look on his face definitely let me know that something was wrong. I took him into the vet, and after a few x-rays and talking to a surgeon from Colorado State University and another one locally they diagnosed him with a Fibrocartilagenous Embolism (FCE). Basically it's like a stroke, but it happens in the spine and he's mostly paralyzed in the back end. The big thing is whether he will be able to go pee and poop on his own. He currently has a catheter, so it's hard to say, but he hasn't crapped yet.
I'm tore the hell up, and my wife isn't doin any better. This was supposed to be a good week. Our other puppy, a yellow lab, is heartbroken without her brother/chew toy here. I can deal with him not being able to walk, but if the rest of him isn't working I'm afraid I'm gonna have to make the choice that I really don't wanna have to make. Damn dogs anyways.....
Sorry I kind of rambled on, but it's been somewhat therapeutic to type this all. I suppose that's one of the things I really love about this forum, the support you receive from people. Well, I suppose that's about it.
