My 13 year old cocker mix put a disc out on Wednesday evening. She was struggling with steps that evening. She was worse the following morning (walking funny and not able to do steps) so I brought her to the vet.
She's in excellent health otherwise so after a discussion we decided to go to a specialist for an MRI and possibly surgery. Specialist vet said she had a 90% chance of a full recovery so we decided to go with the surgery.
She had the surgery yesterday, which went very well but as there was a lot of disc to remove the cord was irritated and inflamed.
Update today is that she is a bit worse but that's apparently normal with the inflammation. She has managed to urinate so that's good.
I'm just wondering has anyone else been through this with their dog and how they got on? She's over 2 hours away from me so I can't even go and check on her although I don't think they allow visitors anyway.