been a long week so far

twistedstem

hey brothers been a long week indeed.been workin nightshift for awhile.my wife woke me early on sat to tell me she taking gus(my dog)to the vets.says hes acting funny,moving slowjust laying aournd the house.okfull check up blood work vets says strained muscles in his back so some pills and rest.next day wife wakes me to say hes dragging his feet around the house.rush him back to the vets they send us to a dog hospital ends up he has 2 ruptured disks and hairline fract on a vertebrea.so hes spent 2 days at vet recovering from back surgery.been home a couple days and we are basicly starting from 0.teaching him tol walk again house breaking all over again and a relly nice hit to the credit card.gonna be a long month...sorry i just had to get this out and off my chest ..

Bamablows

Poor guy! Fingers crossed for a rapid recovery!

Bigshizza

WOW Vance, I hope he's on the mend soon...

jj20030

Bamablows:

Poor guy! Fingers crossed for a rapid recovery!

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danielzreyes

Hang in there Vance

LiquidChaos66

I grew up with dogs most of my life. I feel for ya man... My thoughts and prayers are headin to you your fam and your pup! Keep us posted!

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SmokeWI

Sorry to hear that! It's so sad anytime an animal is in pain. Hope he makes a quick recovery!

roland_7707

LiquidChaos66:

I grew up with dogs most of my life. I feel for ya man... My thoughts and prayers are headin to you your fam and your pup! Keep us posted!

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twistedstem

thank you for the words of encouragement brothers!!wife and are doing what we can and things are goin good so far.hes always been apart of the family to us so how could we not be there for him you know what i mean.thanks again for the good thoughts and prayers sent this way you guys are amazing ..

roland_7707

Yall feel like family to bub, so not a problem.

twistedstem

hey brothers.been an awesome day so far.first gus took some steps on his own this afternoon in the backtyard.and that is really good for only being one week out of surgery!!than we get home from running some errands to find a get well bomb from jim!!

Bigshizza

Awesome!! Good boy!!

roland_7707

roland_7707

Hows gus doing bub?

twistedstem

hey brothers sorry i havent updated,been terribly busy with work and the house and gus.but its only been little over 2 weeks since his surgery and gus is doing well.hes had good days and bad.usually in that order he started walking on his own a few days ago and it seems hell be active one day and the next will be a "recovery" day where hell just kinda a lay around most of the day.but saw the vet to have his staples removed and he said any progress is good.so seems like slow and steady will finish the race.thank you so much for your support brothers!!!

ehehat

I saw this late. Sorry about the struggles brother but glad he seems to be doing better.

twistedstem

gus had an awesome day did some serious walking today very encouraging.

roland_7707

Awesome!!

Bob Luken

Way to go Gus

twistedstem

so been pretty busy first day off from work in awhile.so gus saw the vet a couple days ago.got a good goin over from the vet,was a good news bad news kinda report.doc says hes all healed up good from his surgery calling it a success.bad news hes probably not gonna get back to "normal"wich we were expecting.so he will walk with a bit of a limp from now on.and he has seemed to have lost some of the tail response he used to have.now it onyl wags if hes really excited most of the time it just kinda hangs there.but he is pretty much himself again!!so i am very happy with how it has all come together.!!thanks for all your kind words and support brothers.ill post some pics and videos in the near future..

roland_7707

Thats great to hear man. Give him a belly rub from me.

Amos Umwhat

twistedstem

roland_7707

Any updates?

twistedstem

hey brothers,gus is doing very well,vets says hes all healed from the surgery and looks good.hes able to get in out of the house now by himself.no more carrying him up and down the steps.he is probably about 75%from where he was .just started taking him on walks again.hes got a limp in his right side and seems to have a hard time staying in a straight line.my wife says his alignments off...so still a bitt of work ahead of us but it is very encouraging!the family and i appreciate all the kind words and good thoughts.ill try topost some more videos when im off from work!! vance.

Bamablows

Glad to hear this little guy is doing better. I'm studying for an automotive suspension test I have Dominic and there is an actual alignment term called "dog tracking" where the vehicles wheels are out of alignment. Kinda funny.

twistedstem

hello brothers.havent posted anything about gus lately.been slow but steady.hes got a pretty hard limp and doesnt seem to have the stamina he used to.weve started taking him on walks to build up his strength.if we go to far one of us has to carry him back home.but hes getting around good back to sitting by my side on the patio while im smoking..his hair has grown back looking normal again

Bob Luken

Good boy Gus. Good to hear about his progress.