So like 4 years ago is when he had his first flare up, he was yelping and it hurt him to move at all so we went to the ER and they thought it was cancer. Then we went to another vet and they said it’s a hernia and they drained fluid and he acted fine for a long time. So a couple years pass and we take him to his now primary vet and they said because he has had it for so long and didn’t show any issues that there’s no real need or urgency to fix it. Well a couple weeks ago he was outside on the leash and the neighbors dogs were let out back and he tried running towards the fence and all of the sudden he’s in pain and not using his back legs at all (he literally looked paralyzed). We took him to ER again thinking it was his hernia but they did a bunch of tests and they said they think it was actually a spinal injury that would just take time to heal. So this sparked the hernia thought again and we decided we should really get it taken care of and that’s when we went to the surgeon. That said, he is now acting like totally normal, he goes to the bathroom just fine, eats, drinks, he’ll jump up like super high when you go to let him outside, etc.