Big Rocco news and...

[Guest Anonymous]

:angel: What an angel you are HF! :angel:
Rocco sure is beautiful... Not to mention lucky to have you.

odnarb- beautiful dogs

[Lucky Chaos]

Good going Rocco and of course HF! He's georgous and I love that ear.

[courtnek]

hillside napisał(a):

No, HF didn't get him through another member here, there was a post made about him by another member here.

isnt that kinda the same thing? SRC (I think) posted about him, and HF made arrangements to adopt him....wouldnt that be considered "through", kinda?

:oops: :oops: :oops:

[Queen Bitch]

No, because SRC really didn't have anything to do with him other than posting his story. It's like if I posted a link to a book somewhere online, and you decided to get it, you wouldn't be getting it through me, even though I brought it to your attention. :wink:

[courtnek]

ok

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[Guest Anonymous]

I'm pretty much a lurker on Dogo :oops: but just have to say:

People like you, HF & odnarb - You do us humans proud!!! :D :D :D

Sending my warm wishes to Rocco - Stand up and WALK soon sweetie!

[Horsefeathers!]

Thanks, guest :oops: ! Rocco appreciates the well wishes. :wink:

Odnarb, what beautiful dogs! I'm so glad that Brando is doing so well. I only adopted Rocco a week ago, so I'm still learning him. Here's my interpretation of what's wrong with him. First of all, he has von Willebrand's Disease. From what I understand, for whatever reason, Rocco had a myelogram done (apparently he wasn't moving so well?). With his bleeding disorder, he bled into his spine some kind of way which led to his paralysis. At least that's been my interpretation of it. I'm still reading through the gazillion pages of medical documents and trying to learn. The vet tells me that Rocco has pressure on his spine(?). We can't surgically relieve it because he's such a huge surgery risk with his bleeding disorder. According to the von Willebrand's test page thing I have, it's very, very bad (8% and they say that below 35% is a high bleeding risk). The good news is that he DOES still have deep pain and is showing good resistance when his legs and feet are worked. From what my vet says, it's kind of like he has forgotten about his feet and is having to get used to trying to use them again. Thank you SO much for posting your story. That gives me even more hope. I really like that cart that Brando has. Rocco has one, too, but it looks different... his feet don't touch the ground, but right now he really can't put one foot in front of the other... yet. He would just drag them which is why he has to wear boots. Still, I very seldom ever even put him in his cart thingy except for longer "trips." We are trying really hard to get him to use those legs and he really is trying. When we decided to adopt him, I was just under the impression that he was permanently paralyzed and really didn't even know what had happened to him. We thought he would need to be in his cart thing all the time when moving at all and had even been making plans to build him a wheelchair ramp. I never thought for a minute that he had a chance at recovery, but since my vet reviewed his medical records with me, he says he fully believes Rocco should be able to regain at least some of his mobility. Now, Doc (my vet) is very "grounded" and can be a bit (what's a good word to describe him...) cynical. The fact that he believes it can be done says a lot because he'd be the first to tell me if he thought I was wasting my time. Funny thing is that he was my biggest opponent about taking on such a challenge. Now he's Rocco's biggest cheerleader :lol: .

Anyway, I'm rambling. I'm so glad to "meet" you and Brando. I only hope Rocco has as much success with his recovery. Here's a picture of him "running" as he does now (he'd just climbed out of a dirt hole :oops: ). He certainly gets where he wants to go, but I just hope against hope that he will be able to put one foot in front of the other.

[odnarb]

[quote name='Horsefeathers!']Thank you SO much for posting your story. That gives me even more hope.


You are welcome! It took a while, but Brando recovered pretty well :)

I really like that cart that Brando has. Rocco has one, too, but it looks different... his feet don't touch the ground, but right now he really can't put one foot in front of the other... yet. He would just drag them which is why he has to wear boots. Still, I very seldom ever even put him in his cart thingy except for longer "trips." We are trying really hard to get him to use those legs and he really is trying.

That's one thing that is great about his cart. His feet do touch the ground, and it forces him to use them. You can adjust the seat for more or less support. So they have just a bit of support for when they are weary, or lots of support for a very weak dog. It's like one of those baby walker things, where they sit in the seat (no kids, don't know what they are called :lol:)

Here is where I got it from: http://www.doggon.com. They are wonderful, and I highly recommend their products.