[kathywithbirds]

This so sucks. Blitz, my 10-year-old greyhound, is going lame for some reason.

He's lost control of his rear leg completely and he's in pain. He whines for 2 hours before he can get his pain pills. He's on 100 mg of Deramaxx a day,and the vet said not to give him that much but for a week only. He gets half in the AM and half in the PM, 12 hours apart, apparently very bad if he gets an OD. But I gave him a quarter of a pill 2 hours before he should have, so I'll give him another quarter an hour or so after "time."

They did x-rays, nothing, his senior bloodwork came back glowing, the docs are thinking it's either neurological or something is pressing somewhere, a tumor maybe pressing on nerves.

I hate to spend thousands on him just so nothing happens. We did that with our first cat. We took the cat to the vet and were told he was dying, it was best to put him down as he was in so much pain. This after $1000 worth of tests just to tell us forget it. i'm not doing that with Blitzy. He's 10, which is an old greyhound, he wouldn't get through a surgery, and I won't put him through a bunch of stressful or painful tests just so they can tell us nothing cna be done.

Should I go through with an MRI even? He's going tomorrow for observation so the doc might be able to get a better idea what to look for.

Sorry to vent, just feel so bad and frustrated for him. He's whining again, even after his pill.