My past cat Squeek was over weight and one night tried to jump on the bed but fell back and broke her hind leg.
Major cat crisis for me but to make a long story short, I ended up taking her to a vet friend of my sister's. The leg was broken in two with a bone fragment also. He performed surgery on her by inserting a rod down the leg and wiring the broken off bone fragment to the broken bone and encased the broken area with a small cast.
Approx. 6 weeks weeks later I took her back to the good Doctor who removed the rod but left the wiring that held the broken splinter in place and she was good to go...........
Total cost: $1,200 for all the good doctor did and an additional $650 to the original vet who had no idea what she was doing.........That's another story in itself.