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Enjoy the pretty snow!
That's 0.79p !!
Glad to hear his breathing is better. SOunds like they are taking good care of him. Take care of you too and hang in there
Hope you get good news from the vet later.
Thinking of you, Holiday~Good morning MMC! Happy, Happy Friday Eve! TGIFE!!!
Thanks everyone for all the prayers for mom, SIL & sis. SIL is home with help from Visiting Angels. Mom is in ICU. My sis was there already this morning & says she is maybe a teeny bit better. She had a sleepless night again b/c of all the coughing. Poor thing. Emergency room doc says this is caused from heart failure, not pneumonia - heart pumping so fast, but not hard enough to remove fluid from the lungs, so he did not put her on any antibiotics. Cardiologist was in later last night - he says it's bronchitis & the illness brought on a-fib. We are going with the cardiologist diagnosis! Bronchitis sounds better than heart failure to me! He ordered a breathing treatment & started her on IV antibiotics. He was in again this morning - recommends steroids through IV or in breathing treatment, but that will be her family docs call. Hopefully family doc is making rounds early this am!! xx And hopefully she improves today!!! xx Thanks again. Really appreciate all the thoughts & prayers!!
Have a Fantastic Friday Eve my friends!!!
Glad that your SIL is at home, and getting assistance from Visiting Angels.
Hope your Mom sees some quick improvements from the treatment that the Cardiologist has started on her. Fingers crossed that her family doctor sees her early this morning. Sending hugs, love, and prayers to you! xx
Merry Friday Eve, friend~Good morning!
Just a quick hello. I'm heading out soon, Maggie has a groomer appointment. I'm going to run a couple of errands while she's there. Back home afterward to catch up with my chores. My daughter also has a doctor appointment today. I'll pop back in when I can.
I hope everyone is well and has a nice day. Hugs & prayers for all.
Hope Maggie's appointment goes well.
Good luck with your errands.
Have a wonderful day!
xx
Grey !Greetings all! I am so behind on posts. Everything is a mad house around here and it's left me no time to even read through things.
I was able to ready through the past several pages and my heart just broke for some of you over the past week's events. I am so sorry about the storms, dogs' health issues, car accidents.... my goodness.I will be praying for everyone!
Last Friday, my closest friend texted me, "How do you know when it's time to help your dog cross over?" It just made me ill. They have two dogs, Rowan a German Shepherd and Piper, a Wire Haired terrier. I remembered the day they adopted them both at the shelter years ago. At the time Rowan was only 7 months old. It's been 12 years since then. I texted back, "Whyyyy...... who?"
She then explained everything going on with Rowan. I made a couple of suggestions to help her be more comfortable, which did work quite well to help stop her pain and listless, wobbly behavior. Then she emailed me Monday morning and said, "I just wanted to let you know that Rowan passed away very peacefully in her sleep last night curled up on her bed next to my side of the bed."
On our side of things - also on Friday evening, while walking Moose, our Shepherd-Lab mix, I noticed a dark bloody spot on his testicles. Sorry - but that's where it was. It was dark out out so when I got back in, I had to check things out to which I got the Steve Martin reaction from Father of the Bride 2 when he takes a sleeping pill to relax and his daughter goes into labor. When he's disoriented at the hospital and is taken into an exam room where the nurse starts an unpleasant check mistaking him for another patient, he comes darting out of the room exclaiming, "DO I KNOW YOU!? I DON'T THINK SO!" Moose was not happy with me.
I rinsed the area and used a topical gel ointment, but at that time, it's didn't look THAT bad. Sort of a circular puncture. He had been playing with Sadie earlier and occasionally she does this thing where she lays on her back underneath him and pushes him up away from her, sort of looks like she's bench pressing. LOL It's the only thing I can come up with as to what caused the cut/tear. He never cried, yelped, nothing. They don't go outside without supervision, ever. We have too many strays, raccoon, fox, coyote and alligators on the property for me to be comfortable with it. We have a fenced area for them to run and play in (they're big dogs, they need it), but other things can get in too, so - outside play time is with one of us always.
Saturday late afternoon, he was walking past me and it was sooooo much worse. Not sure what caused it, but it was awful. I flipped out and asked Bud to call Derrik. Derrik is one of our closest friends and thankfully, one of the best veterinarians in our county. I was so worried he would need stitches in this delicate area. Derrik asked us to send pictures.
So.... let me ask you - have you ever tried to hold down a huge, young, strong male dog against his will on a very tall, four poster, king size bed, while your spouse tries to take pictures and video of the dog's private region?
Yeah, that was my first go round with that even too. It looked like something that should have been a slap-stick performance in an old National Lampoon movie. Especially because this dog - he has been hand raised in this house. Born in this house, bottle fed by us, because his mother couldn't produce milk, travels with us, is adored, and lives where the concept of having to fight for anything is entirely foreign to him. He has no comprehension that people can be cruel, food can be scarce or that some dogs never get to sleep on soft cushy things or one would not have a tug, chew or ball at their disposal. He's never been ill and other than occasionally having to remove a tick or get his vaccinations, he's never had anyone try to manhandle him for anything against his will. This dog thought the entire thing was a game.
He has this huge, long, thick swishy tail. If I could figure out a way to spray Pledge on the end and train him, he could dust all the shelves in no time flat. The dog is upside down, on my bed, with his front paws hooked over my bicep and forearm and bathing my face in excited playful licks with his massive tongue, while continually thrashing side to side at the waist trying to see what Bud was doing and his tail is just wagging happily, completely blocking any hope of a camera shot. Bud would catch his tail and hold it down, but Moose would snake it out, and Bud didn't want to hold him too hard as we were concerned it cause the tear to worsen. An hour and a half. It was the weirdest MMA battle ever.
Derrik texted back to put him on a 10-day round of the antibiotics that he had given us (Every few months he'll give us a small bottle of low-level antibiotics to have on hand just-in-case one of the dogs needs them) and gently rinse the area twice a day with clean water. Said stitches would be too invasive and stressful for Moose in that area. If it didn't clear up and heal nicely, it would be easier, faster and kinder to simply neuter him. He did the antibiotics as he felt that trying to wrestle Moose to apply a topical gel several times a day without him wearing one of those cones would be a nightmare and trying to get him to wear the cone would be an equal chore.
So it's now Thursday and the wound looks substantially better. He does not seem the least bit bothered by it at all. Sunday was the only day he paid any attention to it. I personally think that perhaps some infection has started to settle in as whimpered several times while just laying there and was more attentive to it. Thankfully though - everything looks great now. Hope he continues to heal up easily.
I will continue to pray for everyone and hope that your week is greatly improved!
I'm so glad you popped in. Wow what a week you're having. Prayers going up.
I am sorry but I had to laugh at the image of you and Bruce trying to take the photos. I needed that laugh today. (((hugs)))
Beautiful photos! Thanks for sharing.Good morning my favourite Christmas friends !
It is a very cold but beautiful morning here we have a wind chill of -22c (-8f)
Stay warm!!
Our temperature is the same this morning, brrrr.
Have a great day!
Good Morning, Ryan~
Have a wonderful day!
Oh my gosh That face! He looks mischievous but very cute!
Thank you, Holiday! I'm praying so hard for that.
And thanks for the hugs <3
Sending some back to you!
xx
I don't mean to laugh at Moose's condition, but your story literally made me laugh out loud!!! I can just about imagine your story playing out, trying to get a picture!Greetings all! I am so behind on posts. Everything is a mad house around here and it's left me no time to even read through things.
I was able to ready through the past several pages and my heart just broke for some of you over the past week's events. I am so sorry about the storms, dogs' health issues, car accidents.... my goodness.
Last Friday, my closest friend texted me, "How do you know when it's time to help your dog cross over?" It just made me ill. They have two dogs, Rowan a German Shepherd and Piper, a Wire Haired terrier. I remembered the day they adopted them both at the shelter years ago. At the time Rowan was only 7 months old. It's been 12 years since then. I texted back, "Whyyyy...... who?"
She then explained everything going on with Rowan. I made a couple of suggestions to help her be more comfortable, which did work quite well to help stop her pain and listless, wobbly behavior. Then she emailed me Monday morning and said, "I just wanted to let you know that Rowan passed away very peacefully in her sleep last night curled up on her bed next to my side of the bed."
On our side of things - also on Friday evening, while walking Moose, our Shepherd-Lab mix, I noticed a dark bloody spot on his testicles. Sorry - but that's where it was. It was dark out out so when I got back in, I had to check things out to which I got the Steve Martin reaction from Father of the Bride 2 when he takes a sleeping pill to relax and his daughter goes into labor. When he's disoriented at the hospital and is taken into an exam room where the nurse starts an unpleasant check mistaking him for another patient, he comes darting out of the room exclaiming, "DO I KNOW YOU!? I DON'T THINK SO!" Moose was not happy with me.
I rinsed the area and used a topical gel ointment, but at that time, it's didn't look THAT bad. Sort of a circular puncture. He had been playing with Sadie earlier and occasionally she does this thing where she lays on her back underneath him and pushes him up away from her, sort of looks like she's bench pressing. LOL It's the only thing I can come up with as to what caused the cut/tear. He never cried, yelped, nothing. They don't go outside without supervision, ever. We have too many strays, raccoon, fox, coyote and alligators on the property for me to be comfortable with it. We have a fenced area for them to run and play in (they're big dogs, they need it), but other things can get in too, so - outside play time is with one of us always.
Saturday late afternoon, he was walking past me and it was sooooo much worse. Not sure what caused it, but it was awful. I flipped out and asked Bud to call Derrik. Derrik is one of our closest friends and thankfully, one of the best veterinarians in our county. I was so worried he would need stitches in this delicate area. Derrik asked us to send pictures.
So.... let me ask you - have you ever tried to hold down a huge, young, strong male dog against his will on a very tall, four poster, king size bed, while your spouse tries to take pictures and video of the dog's private region?
Yeah, that was my first go round with that even too. It looked like something that should have been a slap-stick performance in an old National Lampoon movie. Especially because this dog - he has been hand raised in this house. Born in this house, bottle fed by us, because his mother couldn't produce milk, travels with us, is adored, and lives where the concept of having to fight for anything is entirely foreign to him. He has no comprehension that people can be cruel, food can be scarce or that some dogs never get to sleep on soft cushy things or one would not have a tug, chew or ball at their disposal. He's never been ill and other than occasionally having to remove a tick or get his vaccinations, he's never had anyone try to manhandle him for anything against his will. This dog thought the entire thing was a game.
He has this huge, long, thick swishy tail. If I could figure out a way to spray Pledge on the end and train him, he could dust all the shelves in no time flat. The dog is upside down, on my bed, with his front paws hooked over my bicep and forearm and bathing my face in excited playful licks with his massive tongue, while continually thrashing side to side at the waist trying to see what Bud was doing and his tail is just wagging happily, completely blocking any hope of a camera shot. Bud would catch his tail and hold it down, but Moose would snake it out, and Bud didn't want to hold him too hard as we were concerned it cause the tear to worsen. An hour and a half. It was the weirdest MMA battle ever.
Derrik texted back to put him on a 10-day round of the antibiotics that he had given us (Every few months he'll give us a small bottle of low-level antibiotics to have on hand just-in-case one of the dogs needs them) and gently rinse the area twice a day with clean water. Said stitches would be too invasive and stressful for Moose in that area. If it didn't clear up and heal nicely, it would be easier, faster and kinder to simply neuter him. He did the antibiotics as he felt that trying to wrestle Moose to apply a topical gel several times a day without him wearing one of those cones would be a nightmare and trying to get him to wear the cone would be an equal chore.
So it's now Thursday and the wound looks substantially better. He does not seem the least bit bothered by it at all. Sunday was the only day he paid any attention to it. I personally think that perhaps some infection has started to settle in as whimpered several times while just laying there and was more attentive to it. Thankfully though - everything looks great now. Hope he continues to heal up easily.
I will continue to pray for everyone and hope that your week is greatly improved!
Praying Moose has a 100% quick & complete recovery! Poor baby! Gracie is the same way - I don't know how she would react if she came across a mean person or a mean animal. She thinks all living beings are good & they want to PLAY!! Prayers for your you, your friend & Rowan. It's so hard to lose a pet!!!
Too cute, glad he's eating.
Thank you Festive!!! Latest update, she's getting a steroid in her breathing treatment & she seems to be not coughing as much. They also ordered bedside PT so she doesn't get too weak.
Love the smell of fresh ground coffee. Mmmmmm! Enjoy it! Continued prayers for Jim. Have a good day!Good Thursday morning, my Christmas friends!
It's crisp & cold this morning. I ground a fresh bag of coffee to bring to work, and, I'm telling you, it's hard to beat!
There are many concerns here on MMC lately, and I'm praying for all of you. I'd appreciate continued prayers for my brother's health. He's too stubborn to take care of himself properly.
I hope y'all have a great day!
Continued prayers for your brother, Brad. And for you, too.Good Thursday morning, my Christmas friends!
It's crisp & cold this morning. I ground a fresh bag of coffee to bring to work, and, I'm telling you, it's hard to beat!
There are many concerns here on MMC lately, and I'm praying for all of you. I'd appreciate continued prayers for my brother's health. He's too stubborn to take care of himself properly.
I hope y'all have a great day!
Please keep us posted.
*Hugs*
Love it - a fundraiser at an Irish Bar.
Sounds delicious! Have fun! Enjoy!
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