To everyone reading this, I am begging for your help if you can give it.
My family is my dogs, I have two. No hubby, no kids. My home is where my dogs are. They are extraordinarily important to me.
My younger dog, the pit name Zusje, is epileptic. She has gone through some horrendous stuff in the last few days and she is in bad shape. She has been hospitalized, she’s home now and if there is no reasonable, viable, statistically sane and financially reachable path to getting her back to a decent quality of life from where she is right now, then I will have to euthanize her.
The intensity of the pain this idea visits upon me is difficult to convey.
The intensity of the pain this visits upon me if I make that choice without a good understanding of the possibilities is impossible to convey.
All I want is to have a conversation with a veterinary neurologist or a vet with a great deal of experience and expertise in this area to ask a few basic questions about the situation. Not a diagnosis of my dog, not a prognosis of my dog. I just want to know: have they seen other dogs in similar circumstances recover? if so, was it a one-off miracle or has it happened with any kind of regularity? Did it happen with relatively simple, financially sane treatments like sedation/supportive care/medication management or did it require more complex and expensive methods?
This is agony for me and I cannot bear making the decision without knowing more than I know now.
So if you know a vet (neurologist), are a vet, can ask a vet, or even a veterinary caregiver specializing in neurological rehab and anything similar, to have a 10 minute conversation with me, well, that would be an absolutely amazingly kind gift to someone you don’t know who is in some major pain right now.
You can private message me, that would probably be easier.
Thanks.