Hi we are Kyumin and Rizza. We have a 2 year old female bearded dragon named Groot. Grooty has been a super active, curious, healthy bearded dragon until one day she got into an accident where her leg got injured, in this accident the femur bone inside her leg completly broke in half. We immediately brought Groot to the emergency vet upon the discovery of her accident. Fortunately, there were no nerve or muscular damage. The vet put a splint on Groot as this was the more affordable option for us at that time. With just this treatment we have already spent over $2000 from the multiple visits and check up Groot required to heal her legs.

After 3 months of her leg being on a splint we brought her back to the vet. The Vet did an X-ray and gave us good news that the splint was ready to be removed, since a soft callus has formed where the break was. Unfortunately this was the wrong decision, for the moment we brought her home her leg seemed to have broken again, so we brought her back to the vet. And in this visit the vet had informed us that her leg and the soft callus that formed broke. The only way at this point to have Groot walk normally again is to do a major surgery on her broken leg.

The Vet gave us a quote of $4,500-5,200 to do this major surgery.

Apparently, it depends on how long the surgery is (there is a hourly rate but it usually takes less than 3 hours), how many nights Groot has to stay hospitalized, and the amount of dosage of certain chemicals. At this point we can no longer afford to finance this surgery. I posted the details of the surgery below. Please feel free to read it.

Any help would be super appreciated and will be going towards all into her leg. She is like our daughter, and we have bonded so strong we cannot imagine Groot being disabled for the rest of her life. She is only 2 years old and have such long life to live.

Bearded dragons are semi arborial, meaning that they spend a lot of time climbing. She is not allowed to climb or walk on harsh terrain because if her leg gets stuck, she might try to escape and accidently twist her leg causing damager to her leg.

This is her last xray when we found out her leg wasnt still moving after the splint removed.