UPDATE: The outpouring of concern for this beautiful creature always amazes me. He has touched literally hundreds, if not thousands of lives in his 8 years on this planet.
SUNDAY - 8 a.m. PST: T rested well through the night. I made a bed for him outside and did two hour checks on him through the night. At 5 a.m. I gave him more doxycyline and gave him a massage and worked on his hind legs...he seemed comfortable with them being moved.
At 6 a.m., I put a towel under his belly (he weighs 130 and so do I) and lifted him up and insisted that he take some steps. He did, then he laid down unsure how it felt. He did not cry as he did for hours yesterday. He drank water and ate some cheese and peanut butter with his meds.
While walking his side kick Winston, I heard him howling...when we returned home, he had moved and was in the house ready for a walk. We took a short walk and he did what he needed to do...he is tired and not convinced that he is 'okay'...but his movement is good, his eyes are good, his vitals are good.
He will continue to be fed natural chicken. Tomorrow I will get complete blood work done. My guess is it is tick borne.
Anyone who wants to email me, please feel free. I don't want to take diary space up here.
Keep sending healing thoughts and prayers...he is a beautiful friend. THANK YOU...
Barbara, Winston and Tirawa
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So okay, here goes this wacky woman writing about something completely not political in nature, but I do it because you were all introduced to Tirawa in November here
http://www.dailykos.com/... .
For those of you that hadn't read the above tribute to Tirawa, thanks for doing so now...
Today, it seems that T is in a fight for his life. At 1 a.m. he was fine...at 5:30 a.m. he could barely get up and support himself on his hindlegs.
He spent an hour in the emergency being x-rayed as a year ago he and Winston (his terrierist sidekick) had been attacked and his back was injured and my first concern was a pinched nerve. Those have come back clean.
The vet did NOT take blood, although I let her know that he had suffered a tick borne disease in 2001-2002.
Tirawa is back home, in great distress and unable to support his back legs...he is crying and has done so for 3 hours straight. I have just gotten off the phone with his vet (thank you Lord for this woman) who treated him in North Carolina when he suffered Erchliciosis...I am following her thoughts.
We still start him on doxycycline as soon as I get to the pharmacy and continue to give healing thoughts and prayers...
So DailyKos community, I know this isn't a political story, but Tirawa because of his work in Louisiana, is a part of this community and needs some good healing thoughts.
I just need a shoulder...T is an amazing spirit and he is in horrific pain, and I just don't know why.