I'm sorry guys...I should have up-dated everybody on Monday after his doc. app't. It's the Christmas thing ::
!
Here's the deal: he's GREAT!!! He's still has some bloody diarrhea, and is taking a ton of meds...from a general antibiotic to an antibiotic which is specific to his bowels; an anti-naseau, carafate to try to keep his GI tract coated, Prilosec to try to heal his GI tract and all his anti-seizure meds. He's still on a completely bland diet: boiled chicken, boiled rice, boiled turkey, boiled pasta but he gobbles it down without any hesitation! He's going back in next week for another ultrasound to see if his lining is growing back. When I brought him home his rear end looked like something out of National Geographic...i
t's all shaved and his skin was almost not there....just red, open weeping wounds....thin
k baboon butt!! He also had sores all over his belly, in his ears...all a result of this (we think) virus. He was so good about running in to the shower as soon has he had diarrhea so I could wash him off and put the Desitin on it....but now he's all healed up there too!
He's playing with Chester again, and I took them both to our local park yesterday to play with our Bernese Mt. dog friends...but he got tired out quickly and just laid next to me and we watched Chester get taught the lessons of playing with the big dogs!
I've heard from a couple of docs. in other countries about this disease: CHE Canine Hemorrhagic Gastroenteriti
s and if the dogs live through the first couple of hours they will survive...but can get it again!
I'm thinking that with all Cowboy's gone through in his short life (Just three!!!) we should change his moniker to: COWBOY...THE WONDER DOG! (or, as darling husband puts it: the most expensive dog in the history of the world
)
......but he's worth it!
