Not to swing this thread into a morbid direction, but I’ve been dealing with so many things with my Molly these past few weeks, it’s driving me crazy. First, she had ACL surgery a couple of weeks ago, and that Vet freaked it up real good. Then, after the surgery, while coming out of anesthesia, she got real sick and her liver enzymes elevated to numbers no vet has ever seen before. So everyone naturally believed it was cancer, and the initial ultrasounds seem to have confirmed it.
But then, we brought her to a specialist (cha-ching), and they drew some samples through some aspirations, sent them off to the lab, and turns out she doesn’t have cancer. However, her liver is so messed up, that we can’t put her back under anesthesia to do another freaking surgery, to not only undo what the first vet did, but to get her ACL corrected, UNTIL Her liver enzyme numbers normalize.
So my best friend has been in the hospital since last Friday trying to get this all straightened out. I went and saw her this morning, and she’s doing OK. She was so super excited to see me that she tried to jump up on all fours to stand up, but her leg being broken, wouldn’t let her. That was kinda sad, but I knew she was happy, so I was only sad about her predicament.
So far I’m $7500 in the hole, trying to figure this out (whatever), And there doesn’t appear to be much to be enthusiastic about. Her numbers suggest she should be super sick, but she’s acting like there’s nothing wrong with her. Other than having a fractured tibia due to another doctor’s negligence.
She’ll be 12 in December, so I have to start thinking about her quality-of-life, obviously. But, you wouldn’t know there’s anything wrong with her and I’m told she’s not in any real pain. So the goal is to try and normalize her liver and get her in for another corrective surgery that’ll cost me another five or six grand. Again, money isn’t a big deal when talking about getting my dog back to normal, but all of this is happening while I’m trying to build a house, so money is leaving my bank accounts at light speed right now. Lol.
Anyway, I just read through this entire thread knowing I’ll have to deal with the inevitable soon, but we are praying that we can delay this decision another couple of years with some quality specialist care. Plus, I just needed to get all this off my chest.
Thanks for listening.
) so I have him get in mine. He will swim with us for miles before this happens but at a point, you think, "is he going to sink or swim?" He loves to swim just to swim so I figure he's climbing in for a reason. Fucker just lays there and checks out the scenery as I paddle with an overloaded kayak. Somehow Karma must be catching up to me on this dog. I tried to give him away TWICE. 
