Then on 1st April 2006 coming home from our house in France – he went chasing rabbits across a field and came back on three legs. He couldn’t put his back left leg anywhere near the floor and I feared he had broken it. We were in Northern France and it was 06.30am on a Sunday morning. Nightmare!!!! I dosed him with the painkillers I always carry and drove him home – very carefully.
His own vet came out on that Sunday afternoon to examine him and couldn’t find a break – it seemed like he had torn something in the soft tissue way. I will cut a very long story short by saying that in January 2007 after an MRI scan he was finally diagnosed as having a bulging disc in the area that had been operated on. The surgeons confirmed that there was nothing that they could do surgically to help Barty and they sent us home with a very guarded prognosis. After intensive drug treatment, acupuncture, physio and just about everything else I could think of, Barty was finally well again in the April this year – just over a year after his accident.
It seemed like a miracle that he was back walking and running like his old self.
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