Nancie & Gracie Doodle's Blog (19)

With sad heartbreaking news our sweet beautiful intelligent silly best friend passed away from bloat 2 months shy of her 11th birthday.  She was the love of our life and moving on has been so hard.  I haven't posted in years on DK and just now have figured out how to get back to posting.  I did inform some of the people I know here through Facebook.  Graciedoodle was in the best of health, perfect athletic weight and very agile.  We have known about bloat since the day we brought her home so…

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Those of you who have been with DK for the past 6 years pretty much know the things that Gracie Doodle either gets into or has had.  Thankfully, up until now, I have had Pet Insurance.  We have had two surgeries to remove Fox Tails from her front mitts paws, one to remove a Mexican Feather Grass seed from a turbine in her nose and a recent surgery to remove what turned out to be a calcium deposit on her hip due to Rattlesnake vaccine.  For…

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FINALLY…it has been a long 10 months but finally I can come up for air and say that Gracie Doodle is back to her old self, healed and happy!!  YAY  It has been a long tearful journey but now the light at the end of the tunnel is burning bright and our sweet, silly, goofy, loving and happy girl has returned to us.  We are now down to 5 mg of Prednisone every other day for the next month and then she is off the medication completely.  The vet said that she has a 70% chance that the…

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As I sit here and read more and more about all the poor Doodles that are going through various types of medical issues, one thing keeps coming to mind...MONEY!  I honestly can say that one of the best things I have done for Gracie Doodle was to get Pet Insurance.  I only wish I had done it when she was a puppy but I was not yet a member of DK and was not up to speed on this type of thing.  I always sort of assumed I would have a very healthy dog and any of the regular stuff I could pay for.…

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I have had quite a few PMs asking how Gracie Doodle is doing.  I figured it was time to update you all on her continuing condition.  I am not sure where I last left off but I am pretty sure that I told you that she was treated for one month.  Great for a month or two and then it came back, started treatment and then the day we were to start cutting back on her Prednisone the jaw pain came back so we have since then continued to give her two 20 mg each pills a day.  

Gracie has…

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I just wanted to let everyone know that Gracie Doodle is back to being her Doodle Self!  She is walking just fine and we are letting her do a little bit of low chasing of her tennis ball.  Just no high Chuck-Its yet.  We want to thank you for all of your posts of concern and best wishes.  Now we all need to send them to Karen and Jackdoodle who need it the most.  What a wonderful Doodle family we all have!!! THANK YOU

I can't believe it...I have been watching all the reports of the Doodles getting sick and everyone is having trouble trying to figure out what is wrong with them.  Now, this morning Gracie (who likes to sleep in late) jumped off our bed and came limping down the hall to the kitchen where we were sitting.  I immediately had her lay down and I checked her back paws and pads for some type of injury or something stuck in her paw.  I was decorating the tree last night and thought maybe she…

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Gracie Doodle is having the time of her life.  We drove for 8 hours from San Diego up to San Jose to visit our 5 month pregnant daughter, her husband and of course Luna Paw who is Gracie's cousin and a Rhodesian Ridgeback.  We left San Diego on Wednesday and then Friday drove up here to Santa Rosa to stay in the Hilton Hotel which is a dog friendly hotel.  Now I do have my input to what they say is a dog friendly hotel and what I think a dog friendly hotel SHOULD be.  The only thing friendly…

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Finally, I am in the water!!…

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I think I have too many photos to put here but I will give it a try.  Gracie is sitting here telling me that she wants all her beach photos posted...I had to tell her there are way too many so I will probably have to put them in my "Photos" section of my page.…

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Hey, I bet you all have just about given up on me but here I am back doing what I love the most...swimming, playing with my tennis ball and being with my Mom and Dad on outings.  It has been a tough 5 months for my Mom with her mother dying, a good friend dying, having an Estate Sale and getting her mother's house ready to sell, a niece getting married, my Dad moving his office home, grandchildren visiting and the various out of town trips where I had to go to the Dog Ranch which normally I…

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To all my Doodle friends I just want you all to know how much of an emotional escape Doodle Kisses has been for me the last almost three weeks.  You have no idea how much it helped me get through some bad times by just taking a few minutes to read all the comments.

 

My mother would have been 90 this September.  Over the last 5 years she developed Type 2 Diabetes, Dementia, could not walk and became incontinent.  We had three wonderful girls who took care of her in her home…

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I just can't believe that my Gracie Doodle has been in my life for 4 years.  It is like she has always been there.  She is my best friend!  I am going through some hard times right now and she always knows when I need an extra kiss or hug.  She is by my side when she knows I am sad and she understands when there are days where I am gone all day and can't get to walk her.  Gracie makes me a better person every day that we are together.  I just can't imagine my life without her.  Happy…

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Well, this week started out really great.  We went for Gracie's almost 4 year old check up and boosters and she got a clean bill of health.  The vet loved her weight and figure...said she has an athletic body with the heart beat of an athlete!  I came home with MY tail wagging.  So then off to get a refresher course for Rattle Snake Avoidance (3rd year) and she remembered even before they took her through the paces and she was not a happy girl...actually foaming at the mouth!  I think she… Continue

Spring time is here and it is starting to heat up a bit.  Also, arriving with Spring are the Fox Tails.  Because of the excessive rains we have had this year, we are in for a really bad Fox Tail season.  The vet has already been swarmed with dogs coming in for removals.  So, since Gracie Doodle is heading back up to the scene of the crime (where she got two Fox Tails in her paw and had to have two surgeries), I decided to give her a huge clipping.  Actually, we think she looks rather cute. …

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Well, Ms. Foxy Lady seems (seemed) to be progressing nicely up until about an hour ago. I'll have to wait and see tomorrow. After the second surgery which was last Friday, she no longer was favoring the paw and on Saturday while we were working in the yard she was her old self. Wanting us to throw her tennis ball and she would run and get it. Over and over...all day long! Forget the 7-10 days of no jumping or running. It was not going to happen with this Doodle. We have been soaking her paw… Continue

Well, Gracie Doodle went back for more surgery today. The first surgery was on Wednesday and here it is Friday and she had to go back. Her paw continued to look really bad and the swelling wasn't going down. I took her in and they said they would have to put her out and do more surgery. My poor baby!!! This time it was "our" vet who performed the surgery. We had a different one from the group on Wednesday. I'm sure they are all the same but this one knows us personally and I some how feel l he… Continue

I want to thank all of my DK friends for their well wishes for Gracie's speedy recovery. I brought a very groggy 71.2 lb. Doodle home and boy it sure was a chore trying to get her in and out of the car and then up on our bed. I put her there at 4:15 and she didn't move all night. I would check on her every 15 minutes and would roll her over from time to time just so she would be comfortable in another position. This morning at 7:30 she sat up and with the help of my husband went outside. First… Continue

While I am waiting for my surgery my Momma left me her iPad to type to you all on! The human grandkids and family were out here visiting from Boston. I liked having them here but then I was taken to the Dog Ranch where I stay when my parents travel. Then they all left in two cars to drive to the High Sierras (Mammoth) for 7 days. WTD...leave me behind? Well, they got home late on Tuesday night after an 8 hour drive so they couldn't come pick me up. But my Momma had called to check on me while… Continue