Well he had a full examination, and the two areas the neurologist said gave his concern was pain when pressure applied to the neck and shoulder area, and his blink relexes in one eye.
He then told me there were five areas which could be causing these problems in order of likelyhood in his opinion.
1. cm and sm
2. slipped disk
3. infection of the spinal cord
4. psom (glue ear)
5. tumors
They say he has the malformed skull and the squashed brain at the bottom and there may be a little fluid in the canal as its wider than they would think it should be.
There is also a small amount of fluid by the brain part (and only on one side) that controls his blink relexes and they arnt too sure what it is or means.
They also said he may go on to get sm later on, its a point of monitoring him and administering pain releaf as and when he needs it.
For those worried about doing a scan i would do it again it i thought he was much worse. My appointment was at 10.15 i had to arrive at 10.00, loads of parking outside no problems free coffee if you want it. I chatted to a nice young chap he was very knowledgable about the brain area and very up on cm and sm, he finished his chat and examination at 11.00 and took harley from me straight away, his scan wasnt until 12.00. They checked my mobile number a number of times and i was told to collect him at 2.30, if however they decided to do a lumber punch to retrieve fluid from the spinal cord they would phone me first and i would need to collect him at 4.00. I didnt get any calls (phew) so returned about 2.15 when the same chap showed me the scan and pointed out the areas of concern. He carried Harley out to reception who was absolutley fine, once on the lead he was running around as if nothing had happened. He did seem slightly drowsy on the way home but nothing else. I fed him at about 7 that evening and he wolfed everything down with no effects.
I did ask about surgery just out of interest, and he said it was useless, out of the 20 dogs he had operated on only 3 were fine the others were either the same or worse.
Oh Mel, thanks for that, sorry leos the same, does he have to take anything for it, di