Hello, this is my first post. Unfortunately it's a desperate plea for help (and a long story.) Our 18 month old English Mastiff, Pudge, is running out of options. He was born with hypoparathyroidism, which we didn't discover until he was 1 year old. By then his calcium levels had plummeted, causing fever and seizures. We hospitalized him and stabilized his calcium levels, but he came out of the hospital with a wobbly gait which never improved. We did and MRI and cervical vertebral instability was diagnosed. We ruled out surgery because the prognosis for success was not great. We did acupuncture and chiropractic with good success. But we began noticing his left hip was dragging and he wasn't putting much weight on his left leg. X rays showed multiple fractures in the hip socket! This somehow happened without any falling event or accident.Can you believe all of this happened to a not even full grown dog? Now the doctors (I've gotten 3 opinions and am seeking 3 more) have so far told us that they think surgery would half to be done to repair the hip--probably a FHO procedure, where they take out the bone altogether and let the muscles do the work to have the leg function. It would be 4 thousand dollars--we've already spent a total of $15000 on treatments. The fear is that with his CVI (Wobblers) his balance would not be good enough to have success with the hip surgery. Also, his bone structure in the right leg appears strange--a thick femur with a very thin neck.The thinking is that the low calcium levels may have caused this. This is concerning in that it may be susceptible to injury at some point. The doctors I've consulted so far feel there is no option but euthanasia. My family is heartsick. I am desperate to know--does anyone out there have a mastiff who has survived with such odds against him? Is there anything else we could try? Does it seem that the best course of action is to put him down peacefully before he suffers a traumatic injury? Is it too much of a gamble to try the hip surgery and try to give him another chance? I should say that although this all sounds like a recipe for misery, he is up, walking, sleeping, eating, wagging his tail. An amazing, beautiful, noble dog. We do not want him to suffer, of course. But with pain meds (non-steroidal) he seems relatively comfortable--perhaps because the Wobblers causes him to have some lack of sensation in his back legs. Anyway, thank you for reading this and I welcome your responses.