I'll back up a little bit. A little over a month ago Boo and Luna had a bit of a run-in, literally and Luna was left with a limp leg. I gave it a week or two to heal and it never really did. While she did eventually start putting some weight on it, she still favored the hurt leg and usually would hold it up while she walked or ran. I kept putting off a visit to the vet for one reason or another, mostly because I knew it would be a few hundred dollars, at the very least. She didn't seem to be in a lot of pain so I consoled myself with that.
Then the night that I went for the 3D ultrasound I came home to discover that Boo had an apparent upset stomach. Never a good thing for two dogs in a kennel together. While bathing Luna she slipped. I knew it was because her balance was still off from the injured leg but didn't think much of it until she was out and all dried up and I placed her back down on the ground. She couldn't walk. Both of her rear legs were obviously hurting her and she couldn't decide which one to put weight on. I felt horrible and knew I had to take her into the vet, which I did the next day.
Diagnosis: she has two dislocated knees and two torn cruciate ligaments (the doggie ACL, essentially). Ouch. There's really only one solution to fix these problems - surgery. Very, very expensive surgery...
Needless to say I've been really upset because I know Luna is getting on in years, she's at least 10 if not older and I would love to do everything necessary for her, but with a baby coming, it's just not possible. Knowing that I have to make that choice makes me feel even worse. Not having my bestest friend and the one person who truly understands how I feel about my Luna here to console me...I can't even describe how much I've missed D these last couple weeks.
Lucky for me, he knows me well enough and loves me so much he's done everything he possibly could to help console me and simply be there for me. He emailed me research on her injuries that gives hope for her to have a decent activity level even without surgery, he called more than he had the whole time he'd been gone so far and he set up a wonderful gift for me:
A pregnancy massage!!
This gift was two fold as he's convinced that a relaxed me will help the baby to settle into the "perfect" head down position AND obviously I've had some stressful weeks so nothing like a massage to make a girl feel better!
I was able to take a friend along to enjoy the spa while I got my massage and then we got lunch afterwards...it was all in all a completely relaxing day! I was so relaxed, in fact, I came home and passed out until 9 p.m. when I woke up on the couch and decided to relocate to bed! Before I did finally make it into bed though, D called to see how the day had turned out and because of his call the day ended just as perfectly as possible! Here's a picture that L took of me in the Resort/Spa lobby - I'm just shy of 35 weeks here:
As for my Luna? I'm taking it one day at a time and we're going to get her some blood work done to see if she could even safely have surgery. There's no reason for me be upset over something I can't afford for her if she couldn't even have the surgery anyway. In the mean time I'm just protecting her as much as possible from Boo and pampering her a little more than usual. ;-)
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