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It was two o'clock in the morning by the time Michiel was home from Guelph. Orbit has Intervertebral Disc Disease. A sort of hernia. In an advanced stage. No wonder, after two misdiagnoses. Remember his strained muscle a couple of months ago? And his so called ulcer. Let us learn from this to always think for ourselves in future, and not just swallow some doctor's words. This thing is making me rather cynical. Anyway. Operating was very urgent, but he had to have an MRI done first. And due to lots of other emergencies, they couldn't do the MRI until late afternoon. The plan was to take him straight to the OR after the MRI, while still under anesthetic. But that would have meant operating after hours, and that is 1000 $ per hour extra. We decided enough is enough, we are not the Trumps. And thus Orbit is going to have his operation tomorrow. If all goes well it will take him four to six weeks to recover, in a crate. No walking. We don't know if he will make a full recovery, because the disease is so advanced. We will have lots of veterinarian blogging here.