Big Bertha Doing Great

[gingerbee]

Wow what good news!!!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Thanks for everyones support.
She has a consciousness about her now.
She isn't in a vegetative state.

 

[stojanovski92113]

I'm also happy to hear some good news about her!! You both been through a lot! It sounds like she's getting back to herself slowly

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I'm also happy to hear some good news about her!! You both been through a lot! It sounds like she's getting back to herself slowly

Key word SLOWLY.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

But, on this occasion, SLOWLY, is a really great adverb.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Yes.

 

[Lyn W]

Key word SLOWLY.

Step by small, tentative step Ed, but a step in the right direction .Great news!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I'm watching her. I have been for almost an hour. She nudges the lettuce every couple of minutes.

 

[leigti]

I'm watching her. I have been for almost an hour. She nudges the lettuce every couple of minutes.

Would she eat it if you squirted cucumber juice on it? Or tomato juice?

 

[newCH]

Yippee ! I am so happy for you both !

 

[stojanovski92113]

I'm watching her. I have been for almost an hour. She nudges the lettuce every couple of minutes.

Is she trying to eat and too weak to open her mouth?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Before she got really weak, she just showed no interest in food. No matter what it was she just walked right over it.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Now I have three missing lettuce leaves....Two yesterday and again this morning?
Also, I placed her into my outside isolation pen early in the morning but it rained like hell while I was out of the house.
I rushed home expecting to find her sitting in mud with her bandages wet and nasty.
What I found was her. High and dry. Sitting about twelve feet away in her doghouse.
I like what I'm seeing. She walks and she MAY be eating!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Now I have three missing lettuce leaves....Two yesterday and again this morning?
Also, I placed her into my outside isolation pen early in the morning but it rained like hell while I was out of the house.
I rushed home expecting to find her sitting in mud with her bandages wet and nasty.
What I found was her. High and dry. Sitting about twelve feet away in her doghouse.
I like what I'm seeing. She walks and she MAY be eating!

Positive, positive, positive.
Hooooorrrayyyy!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Thanks Adam.
Im becoming a believer.

 

[Jodie]

I am so excited, and glad to see this new info.

 

[4jean]

Such good signs! I am so happy for you!
How is your dog?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Such good signs! I am so happy for you!
How is your dog?

Chester is doing O.K.
He's on two pills for his heart and is doing well.
Thanks.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

So, the game is on.
The game is to actually SEE her eat something! Yesterday she was in her Rubbermade tub all morning with a BIB lettuce leaf...NOTHING.
I got home and placed her outside for some sun. I placed another leaf in front of her and worked on the other animals. When I went back to carry her indoors, the lettuce was GONE! This time it was a whole leaf. Maybe 5" by 4"....And a sliver was left about the size of a dime and there were chomp marks on it....
This is about 100% confirmation that she is eating on her own after about 3-4 months. I just want to see it.
Her tube feedings now have been boosted to include Oxbow Critical care in Pedialite with two drops daily of "Bird" vitamins or some Repashy mixed in and twice weekly some added sweet potato baby food. 20mg. Followed by 10mg of Pedialite as a flush.
Forgive me because the mg might be ml. It is a large syringe with marks on it.

 

[tortdad]

Awesome news Ed