EllenEveBaz

Sending best wishes.

What a girl!

All paws crossed here for Mrs. T.

Sending gentle hugs to you and your girl. I hope the Deramaxx lets her (and you) rest tonight.

Life must just be one culinary adventure after another with Chase. I hope everything is okay this time, too. What were the skewers made out of?

The pictures of her running are simply wonderful. In humans, natural healing after a stroke seems to occur for at least six months afterward. (And beyond, with therapy.) I hope Gracie continues to make even more greyt strides.

Love, meatloaf, sunshine, and painkillers. A greyt combination. I hope every day sees him better.

Good thoughts from here, too.

Sending best wishes.

I am so sorry for you and Soldi on the loss of your wonderful Ivy. May I ask how you are acting around Soldi? If she hears, "Poor, poor baby" from you in a sorrowful voice, this may make her feel even more sad. If you always act like she is the best, happiest, luckiest dog in the world: "Come, Soldi baby! It's your favorite -- time for the beach!," talking to her in a very excited, happy tone, it may help a little over time. Of course it is not a magic cure for grief. Eating. Diane Burpdog taught me that under certain circumstances, just give them what they will eat and don't try to push anything else, until they're eating more regularly. What has gotten several animals of mine to eat was lightly cooked beef or chicken. Sending happy, upbeat cyberhugs to Soldi and gentle ones to you.

Sending a bunch of bright, hopeful wishes.

If your dogs ever do manage to get a turkey neck down their trachea, you could publish one heck of an article. It would kind of be like the George Carlin routine about the kid who snorted an entire cheese sandwich out his nose -- "It's a miracle!" Hoping Minerva's continuing to do well.

Sending good thoughts.

Sending best wishes.

I think her incision looks very tidy -- maybe the 33 cents was for double-knotting the stitches? But, um, food doesn't go down the trachea (windpipe) -- unless they're aspirating. Trachea is the ringed tube in the front of the neck going down to lungs. Esophagus is just posterior to the trachea, going down to the stomach. There are various procedures the body performs automatically during a normal swallow to prevent food from going down the trachea. Sometimes surgery in this area may create problems swallowing depending on what muscles get moved around/cut, but fortunately it doesn't sound like this is a problem for your girl.

Wonderful!

I am so sorry.

Adding to the wishes for a good surgery result and easy recovery.

My Scout was on pentoxifylline for about 3 years for vasculitis, one of his collection of auto-immune-related diseases, including SLO. He didn't show any noxious side effects. I'm sorry that I don't have the source of this excerpt that I copied some years ago: