 On the mend?
Hi everyone. Thanks for all the encouragement you've been sending our way. Yesterday after I posted here, I had to leave to take my dd's to dance class. I left Joey in his pen with access to food, water and his toys, and I put my lab in the room with him on her bed. Joey was a little mad at me for leaving him... he was barking up a storm at me, like," why are you leaving me?" He hasn't barked like that in days and days.
We got home about 3 hours later, and I zipped upstairs to check on Joey. When I got in the room, he was standing... for the first time since Friday! Very wobbily and weak, but he was standing there looking at me like, "where've you been?" His legs have more "tone" to them and he's using them more and more. My husband is a farrier, and put a call out to all the vets and dog people he knows. Somehow through the grapevine, a neurologist in Seattle heard about us and called Mike when Mike was on his way home last night. He told Mike that if it was liver shunt, there would be more signs, and that this whole episode could have started for many reasons. Also, he said that with a tiny like Joey, it can take up to 3weeks or more for him to completely recover from a situation where he's gotten depleted. It could have been dehydration, hypoglycemia, poisoning, etc. I'm not sure where he would have gotten into something poisonous, since he's supervised ALL the time. He's too tiny to have wandering around our big house. But we take him out in public and sometimes he has to go potty on lawns out there. That's the only thing I can think of. Or dehydration and maybe even a little hypoglycemia. Anyhow, he seems to be on the mend. Not completely recovered, by a long shot, but having him stand and walk a little is a HUGE change!
Keep praying for him, please. I'll keep you all posted on his progress. Thanks sooo much!
deb |