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Two dogs (Gryphon and NorahJones), three cats (Frank, Finnegan, and Fred), and one long-suffering, occasionally patient husband (Patrick G.). Gone, but not forgotten: Puppers: Sadie and (tripawd) Sampson Kittehs: Momo and Maxxie
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Four months! Time has absolutely FLOWN by. I had to double check the calendar. Really, not much new to report–he continues to do well. We’re trying to cut down his meds, and moved to 5 mg of pred daily, and then every other day…he was fine with the 5/daily; 5 every other…he seems to have […]
Yesterday, we hit 14 weeks. It was also the first sunny day we’ve really had. We celebrated that by going to the park to try some off-lead walking and some “swimming.” Granted, it took longer to get from the park entrance to a parking spot than Sam actually WALKS, but you know…it’s the outing that […]
Ah, yesterday made 12 weeks to the day Sam-bern-a-dino got his OSA diagnosis…and today is our three-month anniversary of our amputation. In many respects, things are pretty much back to normal–sure, we still stress about some things, but in general, Sampson is just Sampson. We don’t forget to celebrate the milestones, but we don’t babypants […]
We have been doing PT for eight weeks now at the Animal Emergency and Referral Center; last week, we also started acupuncture there. Most of the time, the client before ours was a big, fluffy, senior Malamute lady named Gizmo, who, like Sampson, was in for pain relief and mobility sessions (although she was four-legged). […]
We don’t have a choice about dying. It happens to everyone and everything. We DO, however, have a choice to make about living and how we focus our energies between now and then–whenever “then” might be. This entry was part of a forum post, and an earlier blog post, but I’ve made it a separate […]
Ah, the moments and days seem long, but the weeks and months are so, so short. Yesterday marked Sam’s two-month post-op mark, and I can’t believe how quickly the time has gone. Every once in awhile yesterday, I caught myself thinking “two months gone already. God, the odds say we probably don’t even have that […]
Most recent update re: food and meds: Still losing weight…but bloodwork appears normal and appetite is out-standing. So much so, I’ve even been able to start sneaking the K9 Immunity + back into his food. Don’t tell him. We reduced the pred to 10 mg/daily. Still on tramadol. Vet thinks that despite relatively normalish bloodwork, […]
Update #356 on our food saga: Started Sam on the Prednisone on Thursday AM. He came to work with me and hung out all day in my office. We had a nice walk at lunch (about 10-12 minutes), and I worried all the excitement (er, relatively speaking) and the walk would be a lot since […]
Sorry for all of these, but… The vet visit revealed that we have lost weight–we’re down to about 65 lbs. We were 95 lbs in our prime, dropped to 78-80 in our dotage, then down to 75 as we got ill, and down to 70 post-amp. But a six lb loss in 6 weeks isn’t […]
Update: Talked with the vet. We have discontinued Prilosec, as that in and of itself, can cause nausea/tummy distress. We’re scheduled for bloodwork on Wednesday to rule out renal or liver failure or other complications. He doesn’t think Meloxicam will help, as it’s also known to cause GI distress, and he doesn’t feel it’s as […]
