I'm glad that you seem to be getting some help from the new vet. Been there, done that, my old boy Floyd (PTS Nov 2010) tore his cursiate (SP?) legurment when he was 5 yrs old but my old vet said to wait to do surgery as it was a partal tare and to wait for it to fully go, so I did as I was advised at the time, I kept him on rested and on lead at all times for 6 months as I was told and he was also on Metacam. Fast forward 3 years, at this point I asked the vet to do the surgery as Floyd was not getting any better or worse and I felt it should have been done bfore now. At the point the vet tells me that he can not do the surgery anymore due to damage to the joint for the tear
. While I was upset, I still trusted the vet and thought it was just one of those unlucky things. Fastward another few year, Floyd is now 10, I bought a new SBT puppy bitch, who I called Holly. 3 weeks after getting her, she starts to have a grandmall fit at 10pm on a Saturday night. I had to take her to an out of hours vets who covered my vets out of hours emerganceys. This out of hours vets is acculty only 5-10 mintues from my house, so worked out well. The only way to stop the fit was to anethotise Holly. Holly had to stay at the vet hospital for 3 days, until they could controll the fits. The out of hours vet wanted to do an MRI and also check for a liver shunt as 13 weeks of age is too young to be eplipsey. My vet refused, saying it was just the out of hours vets bumping up the costs. Everything was fine for 4 weeks and then Holly went into another grandmall, this time she went to my vets as they where open, as before the only way to stop the fits was to give her a GA. She spent just under a week at my vets, he tested for a liver shunt but still said she didnt need an MRI and due to the argeement with my vet, the out of hours vets could not do one with his permission. My old vet put Holly of medcation to pervent any more fits. Again no problems until Holly reach 22/23 weeks of ago and then she started fitting again in the middle of the night. I had to wait until my OH got home with the car to get her to the out of hours vets, which took about an hour, I tired to keep her cool outside as a fit over 10 mintues basicaly starts to cook the brain. This time the fits where worse, as soon as one stoped, the next started. Holly was too ill to be moved, so stayed with the out of hours vets. Everytime they tried to bring her out of the GA, she started fitting again. They manged to get another vet surgery across town to do an MRI (as the out of hours vet used a moblie MRI which would have meant waiting 3 days) The MRI showed swelling in her brain and they started her on chemo and other meds to try and reduce the swelling while waiting for lab tests back from a spinal fuild test, next day I got the call I was dearding, test came back and the MRI had been seen by a speaciliist, Holly had meningitis and it had caused major brain damage, even if they could have stopped the fits, she had at best 6 months left to live and she would not be herself anymore, so we made the hard choice and had her PTS. They would not let me have her on my lap due to the chemo drugs and at this point she was fitting while under GA, I held her head and rested mine of hers as we ended her suffering.
I changed me vets as soon as the 6 month period was over to the out of hours vets after I took Floyd to them for a second opion.. Yes they might be bloody expensive (thats what insurance is for lol) but if they had been allowed to treat her how they wanted at the start, Holly would still be here. Because my old vet was too worried about spending money, by the time we found out what was wrong, too much damage had been done and there was nothing anyone could have done.
Floyd should have had the surgery when he was 5 but as I left it as I was told was best, it had caused damage to his knee, the other knee went also and his spin nevers where damaged due to the way he was walking. My now new vet, did surgery on one knee last year and it gae Floyd a whole new lease on life for the last 6 months of his life, unfortantly his spin nevers deterated a lot faster than expected and I had to have him PTS, it broke my heart, he was 13 and a half but I honestly believe he would still be here if I had inststed on the surgery all those years ago
I really hope you get to the bottom of oscars problem with this new vet