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Well, I'm pleased to report that after a fairly fraught few months, Eddie the elderly is restored to full health and beyond :wub: :wub: :wub:
As some of you may remember, at the start of the year he was having violent vomiting bouts, and would just recover only to be taken ill again and go further down. One Sunday a couple of months back we really thought we were going to have to let him go to the bridge
However, our vet is a star and said that if he could beat the aggressive cancer he had then he wasn't about to give up just because of a tummy problem! :unsure:
The diagnosis was pancreatitis, no doubt partly because of the starvation he'd suffered his digestive system wasn't as good as it might be. So, with medication coming out of his ears we took him home and I cooked very light, bland and tiny meals for him, and eventually he started to put some condition back on, and to get the sparkle back :thumbsup:
Now he's actually a little porky, but I really don't mind too much, at least he's got a reserve if he needs it! He's on permanent steroids, a tiny amount every other day keeps him settled, and he's on a prescription diet which I supplement with my own cooking - plus a bowl of tea of an evening otherwise both he and Willow sulk! :cheers:
Today I bought him an activity ball, to make him work for his kibble a little - and he soon learnt that if he picked it up and chucked it he got more out than just genteely rolling it - my boy's clearly an old dog learning new tricks!
Here are a couple of piccies of him - not bad for an old chap! :wub:
Thanks to all of you who have written to ask after him - he's as grateful as I am for your concern, thank you all :huggles:
As some of you may remember, at the start of the year he was having violent vomiting bouts, and would just recover only to be taken ill again and go further down. One Sunday a couple of months back we really thought we were going to have to let him go to the bridge
However, our vet is a star and said that if he could beat the aggressive cancer he had then he wasn't about to give up just because of a tummy problem! :unsure:
The diagnosis was pancreatitis, no doubt partly because of the starvation he'd suffered his digestive system wasn't as good as it might be. So, with medication coming out of his ears we took him home and I cooked very light, bland and tiny meals for him, and eventually he started to put some condition back on, and to get the sparkle back :thumbsup:
Now he's actually a little porky, but I really don't mind too much, at least he's got a reserve if he needs it! He's on permanent steroids, a tiny amount every other day keeps him settled, and he's on a prescription diet which I supplement with my own cooking - plus a bowl of tea of an evening otherwise both he and Willow sulk! :cheers:
Today I bought him an activity ball, to make him work for his kibble a little - and he soon learnt that if he picked it up and chucked it he got more out than just genteely rolling it - my boy's clearly an old dog learning new tricks!
Here are a couple of piccies of him - not bad for an old chap! :wub:
Thanks to all of you who have written to ask after him - he's as grateful as I am for your concern, thank you all :huggles:
