Thank you to all of you for your kind words....
I went to see Charlie today. I am copying below what I posted about him on Facebook ...
Charlie is hanging in. While he is improving, he is not nearly well enough to be out of the ICU. He is getting 50% of needed nutrition through his NG tube and they are encouraging him to eat. He ate about 1/3 of what was offered this morning. On our visit, he took a few bites of vanilla flavored yogurt, but he was not overly excited about much of anything. It could be a number of things that are affecting his mentation (he is a bit dull). It could be a result of the Fentanyl which was discontinued this morning and he is now on Tramadol or could be he has some other underlying issue we are not aware of....he also had a very low blood sugar for some time in the shelter. Time will tell ... maybe by tomorrow after being off of the Fentanyl for 24 hours he will be a bit brighter. His wounds are healing and the drain in the surgical site is showing less drainage now. He can walk around, but slowly and he stumbles a lot...again we just don't know why. Time will tell us more.
We took a couple of toys to him and when we squeaked one of them, he did walk over to it.
He also reacted to his vet specialist's voice. A couple of times when she walked into the room he perked up and turned towards her when he heard her voice!
Some photos of my visit:
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