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- mantrakid0
Thanks y'all.. We're talking pacemaker here, dogs having minor heart attacks basically any time it does anything other than sitting around. Can't even come home from being away for 10 minutes without it getting excited (normal) but then keeling over in pain until it passes out, then heart finally starts kicking in again. Doc says one of these times it's just not gonna kick back in. Weve done tonnes of research and it seems the procedure is not that crazy, not like open heart shit, which I think we wouldnt be up for. They go in through the neck, hook it up and dogs back to normal really fast after some recovery time.
We don't have a dime available for it right now, but I'm willing to sell off my keyboards, music gear, ipad, etc if it means we can chill with her for a few more years. Like someone said, if she was 10+ years old it might be a different story, but we took on the job to give her as full and long of a life as we could...
Looking like it's gonna be like a $4,000 bill. crazy. I donno if i would pay much more than that... maybe $5,000 tops... otherwise i'd see it as putting the rest of the family in too deep... Never thought id have to make decisions like that the first time she jumped up in our laps tho. wow.