Vet visit and hopefully turning the corner
Uncategorized July 7th, 2017Our sweet boy has had a few rough days, and we’ve been beside ourselves with all kinds of emotions. I’ve been sleeping on the floor with him because the mattress is too soft and he cries when he tries to move around. He’s on a firmer dog bed, and I’m on the couch cushions.
The increased pain meds may be starting to help. While he has spent a good part of the last several nights crying, as well as crying when he gets up and down, that has stopped this evening (so far). He had just been lying there looking out of it but has gotten up a few times tonight and followed me into the kitchen. He also got up and went to the door when he needed to go out, which he hasn’t been doing (just lying there until we took him out). When we went outside, he hopped over some rocks to go to his normal spot, not the spot of the last few days, so this is really good. And his tail is wagging more.
I’m still on the cushions tonight, and we leave early for Richmond to get his sutures out and see if we can identify the problem. We will see if he has what I think could be nerve/phantom pains in the night, but overall he looks brighter and I am praying for an even better tomorrow!
He also started his homeopathic remedies today.
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July 7th, 2017 at 3:33 am
Tracy & Zato,
Sounds like you’ve been having a time of it, I’m sorry for that. I am so glad to hear that you are getting any level of relief and hopefully you will get some answers tomorrow. Yeah stitch removal day! It definitely sounds like he was feeling better – getting up to go outside and going to his usual spot. I hope you have a peaceful night and a safe trip.
Oh and how cute is that picture – Penny is such a pretty girl and a good snuggler.
Love, Amy & Rusty
July 7th, 2017 at 9:13 am
I love the picture of your guys sleeping together! My dogs started doing that again after Otis’ staples came out. I was so happy the first day Otis hopped over to the sliding glass door and laid down in the sun, and Tess laid down right next to him. Actually, sounds like Zato is progressing pretty normally. We continued on pain meds for a week or so after staple removal day, but the progress he made really accelerated once the staples came out!
July 7th, 2017 at 1:03 pm
Zato I’m so glad you had a little better day today! Yay stitch removal day! That should help a lot! Sending prayers that each day will be a step forward for handsome Zato and you too Tracy!
July 7th, 2017 at 3:53 pm
Hi Tracy,
He looks brighter and happier and that’s important. I feel like it’s a synewave with ups and downs.
Yay on homeopathy. What do you have him on?
Thinking of you guys!
Mascha & Schlomo
July 7th, 2017 at 6:55 pm
Thank you guys! After I kept saying he’d feel better when the sutures came out, they said no actually they’ll dissolve. DUH ha ha ha!
Mascha, he just started his remedies and he is taking hecla lava LM, sulfur LM, cell salt combination, and carcinosin plus. These were from Dr. Loops. They are given alternating days. I also give him a supplement on his food called Life Gold, as well as fish oil and curcumin.
July 7th, 2017 at 10:45 pm
ZATO!!! Well, we can still celebrate stitch re.oval one way or another, right????’YAY FOR STITCH REMODISSOLVE!! 🙂
I know from your other post Zato is, indeeded, starting to turn the corner and feeling better!”Moving forward slowly is still moving forward!!
Tha ks for the update and the good holostic info.
And next time you have an appt jn Richmond, I’d love to meet Zato!! OH, and his human too of course! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Love and hugs
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie too!
July 7th, 2017 at 11:50 pm
Sounds like a plan, Sally! Will do!