Silas problems? Good news bad news.

What have we been up to? Working mainly. A few weekends ago Kevin and I went to Waterloo to conquer  the Andrew Luck corn maze. It was a pretty big maze and we thought it would take forever but it ended up only taking us around two hours. It was broken down into two phases and it was designed so that you couldn't really get very lost. I would have preferred one that was a bit harder but we had a good time.

Charlene has been dropping the baby off at our house on Thursdays and at first he was not a big fan of Silas but now they are best friends and big time trouble making duo. Aaron likes to give Silas his baby toys and Silas chews them up. Silas likes to give Aaron his dog toys and Aaron chew on them. (It is gross and I try to immediately stop them from chewing on each others toys.) They also like to play chase. Aaron runs, well runs as much as a toddler can run, from the kitchen to our bedroom and Silas 'chases' him then they run back to the kitchen. They play this little game for usually about 15 minutes before finding some other way to get into trouble. I am actually amazed at how gentle Silas is with him, he will let Aaron  take food from his mouth mid-chew.

While I am not an overly religious person I believe there is a reason Silas came into our lives. I had been looking at adoptable dogs for a few weeks and I even had showed Kevin some and he had said no to all of them. Then I found Silas. I knew from the second I saw his picture he was supposed to be mine. I sent Kevin a picture of him and he said "I have to meet him first". I was shocked I thought he would say no. When we went to the shelter we instantly fell in love with him, there was no doubt in my mind that he was meant to come home with us. I have said it many many times and others have said it too, he would not get the love and treatment he gets from us from anyone one else. Silas has had a great deal of problems and I am sure there will be many more but I wouldn't trade him for any other dog in the world. I wish I had a billion dollars so I could save more dogs like Silas.

As many of you know awhile ago Silas hurt his knee at the dog park well it still hadn't gotten better so last Friday we took him to the vet, this time seeing the doctor I like. She gave us devastating news. She give him an overall check-up and then really checked out his knees and the way he walked. While she watched him walk she said he look very stiff and uncomfortable. She then checked out his hips and said everything was pointing to hip dysplasia but we would need to bring him back for x-rays to confirm. I was not happy and went home and researched hip dysplasia for hours until I was ready to become a full time drug dealer because I was going to pay $10,000 for Silas to get full hip replacement surgery. Kevin said no to surgery, he said we would let Silas be until he was in too much pain and then we would put him down. Needless to say I was dreading the x-rays because if you know us and Silas we/he can not catch a break and I knew it would come back with bad news. We took him to the vet on Friday where we spent nearly $500 for x-rays, we are the vet's number one customers and she did give us a slight discount. I upped our bill by $80 because I wanted him to have the optional pre-anesthesia testing. The vet called me around 10:30 to say that he was done and recovering and his x-rays looked good. He was finally awake enough to come home around 4 so we went to meet with the vet in person and bring my baby home. She said everything looked perfect. There were no signs of hip dysplasia at all, she said the spine looked good to her, and his knees looked good although they are a bit loose but she said that was okay because he is still growing and may grow out of it. Good news: no problems!!! Bad news: no answers. The vet posted his x-rays to an online vet page where vets talk about hard cases and such. She is hoping someone can help give answers or ideas if not our next option is to pay a radiologist to look at the x-rays. When we got him home he was still all loopey, it was sad yet still funny. Silas has new meds to help with the pain and see if it hels with the stiffness.