Also, I called that 'care credit" thing alinaugust mentioned and luckily the emergency vet that does the CT scans takes it. Now I just have to apply/get approved

And the vet called this morning and said she had the radiologist go over the xrays again and he said he did see a "slightly suspicious disc", so not sure if that's good news or not. She also said that he did say that coupled with the other symptoms however that it was probably not just a bad disc. She said it could possibly be like a degenerative disc issue, but she is not hopeful of that.