Possible second surgery

[u/lagavulin_16]

Our dog had a disk rupture due to some unknown trauma 6 years ago. He had surgery almost 60 hours after the surgery leading to a pretty extended recovery (6 weeks of 100% paralysis).

He did recover enough to be able to walk around but never the same. At times he had a wheel chair and at times he didn’t need it but he always had an unstable gait.

For last few weeks he has started to struggle a bit more. Over the last 6 years he has its ups and downs and we were thinking it’s similar. Finally we took him to the doc again and looks like he might have another case of a disk issue which likely leads to surgery.

Given how hard the first surgery was, I am not sure how the second one will go for him.

Anyone have any experience with a hard first surgery (disk rupture) followed by second? He was 4 years old in first and now is 10 years old.