I am so glad your baby is home and being made comfortable and so sorry that you are having to go through all of the medication giving, etc. Before long, the nurse in you will come out and you will begin to think more of the good the meds are doing her than the trials of giving her the medicine. And she will come to better terms with taking it from you - adjust better to it. Try not to think of all she's been through and you are putting her through when dispensing the Rx but what this dose will do for her and how badly her little body needs it. It helps a bit but more than anything, just doing it over and over takes a lot of the guilty feeling out of doing that to your baby and sort of replaces it with let's-just-get-this-done, baby-and-then-we'll-cuddle. I hate hate hate giving medication to any dog but even I eventually can do it better and with less nerves and stress after a while. I keep praying for your baby and you until she is well.
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