Our 10 year old Schnauzer Heidi (the oh so cute white one) is extremely ill. Her legs just stopped working. The vet cannot find a definitive cause, her X-Ray looked suspect but not conclusive. They theorize she could have thrown a clot, have a brain lesion, a bulging disk or some kind of infection.

Since we really don't have a good idea and a specialist that could run CT, MRI or other tests is out of the question financially we are taking the "best shot". The vet is giving her a strong dose of steroids, fluids to flush her system, antibiotics. His hope is it helps her, he did caution us it could make her worse and at that time we will have to make the hard choice. He also said if it is an infection it is possible she could pass overnight if it was the type antibiotics couldn't help.

Honestly if she doesn't get better I don't want to have to sign those papers to put her to sleep but I don't want my baby to go alone either. It is so scary and daunting. She has had a few scary things but none this bad. I got her when I was a junior in college and I am now 30 so we have been through a lot of milestones. Graduation, marriage (she changed her name), moving multiple times, she outlived the schnauzer we got to be her buddy, this was just a shock to us because it was just sudden.