Saturday, January 28, 2006
home
my dog Penny finally was able to come back home. You see last Monday, she was having a hard time getting around (she is only 5--we think, she was a rescue dog) my husband and I did rescue work for a few years and she was one of our fosters and my husband really liked her, so we decided to keep her. She is an American Staffordshire Terrier. Very sweet temperment. Anyways, she got sick last Monday and we took her to the vet and he ran some bloodwork and discovered she was in kidney failure, caused by some sort of nasty infedtion, the only thing I know she has gotten into recently was killing a raccoon. There is nothing else it could possibly be! Hubby and I went to visit her every sinlge day and would spend at least one hour with her so she knew we hadn't abandoned her. She was hospitalized on IV fluids with bloodwork and injections every day. We were really concerned of losing her! There were a few days the vet was giving us almost no hope. Well, at the end of the week we finally got the answered prayer and she was able to come home. She is doing okay, don't think we are completely out of the woods yet, but are definitely better off then we were. It is amazing how quickly the animals become part of your family. I always said I would never spend a ton of money on an animal and look at me now. Stuck with a big bill, and having to buy the expensive special kidney diet for the rest of her life. Moral of the story, never say "I would never do that" because chances are when the situation presents itself, you actually will. At least that is how it seems to work for me.
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