Do you fix your dogs when they break a leg or a bone?

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Anyone that knows me knows my dogs are my furry babies. I love my kids more than anything in the world but my dogs are always glad to see me and never talk back. So my oldest dog broke his back leg while we were out flying a kite last summer. I take my kids to the doctors when they are sick, so off the the after hours vet hospital we go. Holy Dog Poop! Those places rake in the money. Anyway, after 3 hours we decided that my dog needed to have orthopedic surgery. $2700 later and 2 days we took Izac home. 6 weeks of therapy and keeping him sedated, which was no easy task with the other 2 dogs. He is up and limping along fine. So 2 months ago, out hiking in the mountains, Izac slips and his other leg starts to swell. Back to the animal hospital we go. They neglected to tell us that most dogs break the other leg after the first has been fixed. Ok, cannot afford to fix this one. My husband brings up a good point. "Back on the farm," he said. "We didn't fix our animals they either worked through it or we had to put them down." We'll putting Izac down was not an option, at least not for me. So, here we are 2 months later and Izac seeems to have compinsated well for his injury, the swelling is gone. He is slightly floppy on the leg but is beginning to chase the other dogs up and down the driveway again. Maybe my husband was right. Maybe, just maybe, we have made big babies out of our dogs by not letting them fix themselves more. I think Izac will be fine. Thank God. And I don't have to finance another dog surgery.