First I want to thank everyone for your warm, loving and supportive words as I trudge through this hard time regarding my dog Max. Your letting me just share it here, have a place to dump my heart out means so much to me.
I saw Max this morning. And he is doing sooo much better. The vet says he is not completely out of the woods yet, so they will keep him another day and night, on an IV but all indicators are ... I'll be bringing him back home tomorrow if his progress continues as it has over the past 24 hours.
Keep in mind that when I took him in yesterday morning, he was literally non responsive. Just limp and breathing very swallow. The only thing that told me he was even acknowledging me at all was his sad, pitiful eyes. The only part of him that moved at all.
He is trembling alot still, and his legs are still weak, but he is able to move on them for very short distance. He tried to run up to me when they brought him out of the back area, and put him on the floor in front of me, but I could tell right away that he needed to be picked up and held. He is irriated by the catheter they have in his leg for the IV, and spent most of his time with me trying to figure out how to get it off himself. At first I thought he was just trying to get to a skin irriation with his mouth, but then I saw what he was doing... trying to bite on the catheter in his leg. Yesterday, they could have put a big straw size needle in his leg and he would not have been able to move to acknowledge its irriation.
He is getting much better. We have made it through the first 24 hours. The vet believes that Max is going to make it back home tomorrow and be completely well again, in a few more days. He said he might decide to let me bring a IV bag with us so he can have it another day, but at least he will be home with it.
He looks really pitiful... but just seeing his face pointed up, his neck supporting it, him walking at all and being able to respond to something irriating him is soo much more than I had yesterday from him. He just loved all over me today, and I held, patted and talked to him for about an hour.
I did put him down on the floor just long enough to take a little video with my cell phone I could share with ya'll. It's not much but as much as he would let me get without wanting to be picked up and held in my lap again. Just seconds really LOL
There is a beautiful God story in all this, regarding the Vet and how it will be paid for, and I will share it with ya'll tonight when I have time to sit and type it out. It is definetely a demostration of a Power much Greater than myself at work. I shared it with a member of MIP in email. I might just copy and paste it. All I'll say right now, is that God showed up and Max is rebounding, and I don't have to worry about how much it will cost.
Here is Max with me in a room at the vets today. (It was just uploaded so it might take a moment to be viewable.)
Today I am a very very grateful man with more blessings and grace than I ever deserved.
Hey leeu, ... ... ... Just for the record, that is not my Rose, but a photo I had saved from some dog photos I got ... LOL ... I have laughed my A** off so many times over that photo ... just had to spread the craziness a little ... (Note: that dog DOES favor Rose from that angle, LOL)
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