October 11, walking in the neighborhood

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This was the day Wibber felt perfect, before his relapse...............

Peony leaves, just as the camera and I remember them.





Front yard at the Rat House.

They always have some rats, and some sidewalk chalk.

But this is ... more than usual.











A change of pace -- another block, another house. This is a rain garden, intended to catch rain so it can soak into the ground rather than running off into the street and thence into the storm drains (and thence into the river).



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Wibble

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Sorry to leave you hanging with no update. I meant to post this last night, but then got distracted..........

He is MUCH better.

Huzzah.

Perhaps not quite 100%, but at least 95%. Up from 65 or 70% on Monday.

Whew.

Gotta love modern medicine. Baytril is $$$$, but it works..................... (thank you, Pfizer...............)

To celebrate, we'll enjoy Sparky's famous Kibble Dance.

(click on the "play" triangle to see the video)



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Wibbs in the evening

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They xrayed him at about 5:00. The xrays found ... nothing. There was one "pocket" between his tooth and gum, which they flushed out, but "the roots are sound."

They said his tonsils are really red and angry-looking, so they biopsied them.

He can't come home tonight because he is doped out on the anesthesia, so he will stay overnight.

They will switch the cephalexin out for baytril, and keep him on the doxycycline (antibiotics all).

They will put him on rimadyl (nsaid) to keep the fever down and help him not feel so achey.

They will send him home in the morning if nothing is worse.

It's not fixed.

But they haven't found anything Really Bad, either.

I took his Claritin, so they can give him some of that, and a bag of newspaper (they line the hospital cages with it).

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