About a month ago, we had quite a scare with him. I had just come home from x-rays because I sprained my ankle and just as I put my ankle up with ice, the girls said "Mommy! Is your ankle bleeding?! There is blood all over the floor!!"
I got up and to my surprise, there was blood all over the floor everywhere. Baxter was fine before we went to the doctor. He was fine when we came home. In a matter of 15 minutes, something burst on his left eye and it wouldn't stop bleeding.
We got in the car and took him to the vet. They treated his eye and gave us a cone and said it should be better in a few days. A few days turned into 5 trips to the vet, 3 different medications (they told us he would have to take pills for the rest of his life) and then a chemotherapy treatment called vincristine. They wanted to do surgery on his eye, but couldn't because his eye wouldn't stop bleeding and they didn't want him to bleed to death during surgery. They told us that the chemotherapy treatment would stop his immune system from attacking his own cells and it should help him to stop bleeding - and it worked.
Isabella and Giselle were very upset during this time to say the least. At one point, Isabella looked at me and said "Mommy, can you PROMISE me Baxter is going to be okay?" Before I started to tell her yes, I thought long and hard about my answer. And then I just looked at her and said, "No, Isabella, I cannot promise you he will be okay." Very bravely she looked at me and said, "Well, can you promise me we will ALWAYS remember him?" YES ISABELLA, I CAN PROMISE YOU WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER BAXTER! Forever and ever, no matter what happens!
Here we are, a month later, and I am ecstatic to tell you that Baxter is back to himself. He is off all medications and does not have to receive any further chemotherapy treatments. And, we even bought him a NEW bed to sleep in that's BIGGER and FLUFFIER!!
Baxter has been with us 15 years, here is to another 15 years Baxter! We LOVE YOU!! Woof Woof
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| Baxter and his bad eye |
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| All better |
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| ALL SMILES that her doggie is back to normal |
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