Our dog Tres has again stopped eating. This happened one time before, and at that time the doctor gave us some medicine and said if that don’t work, they would do some X-rays and consider operating. Well the first time the medicine seemed to work so no operation. This time we had a different doctor at the same clinic and she did the x-rays. They found something that is blocking an intestine. She said it was not in the colon, and she seemed to think that was good.
They are going to operate to remove the blockage. Depending on how he does and how much cutting they have to do, Tres may be able to come home this evening.
Tres has a tendency to chew on just about anything, so he may have swallowed something that he shouldn’t have. This will be expensive for a retired person on a fixed income. Possibly my Favorite wife might be able to work a few extra hours each evening picking up the aluminum cans, that way I will not need to put out any extra effort.
Not much else going on, and if there were others things going on, we couldn’t afford it. We may be on our way to the poor house due to this operation, but if we were to get ten donations of $500,00 minimums, we would be able to stay here in the Ford’s Homestead.
That is all for now, I need to go for a walk to get some exercise.
I am back and it is now late afternoon. We are supposed to go pick up the Tres at the Vet. They found that his intestines were blocked with something like clay, they could not say what it was, but he must have eaten it. They said that he could not even pass gas, in other words, he could not even fart.
I have been told they got it cleaned out, and they stapled him shut. We are to pick him up this evening and he will have one of those funnel type things on his neck for two weeks! He isn’t going to like that. There is additional medicine that we will need to give him.
He is going to be a big baby until he is ok.
Keep me safe, wear that mask!
Senior person on a fixed income who needs to pay the vet, Don the Ford
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