Haley is Home!

[Anne & Mr. Haley]

DH and I picked up Haley from the Vet’s yesterday. She gave me the rock that she found in his stomach.

The $850.00 rock

He came home with cans of CliniCare and Hill’ s Prescription Diet i/d with instructions for getting him back on his regular food gradually over the next six days with regular food 100% on day seven. Also, antibiotics, pain pills and one other med which I think is to coat his stomach. AND, the “collar of shame”.

Haley did not pee, poop or eat while at the Vet’s (the pee came out when he saw DH and me) but he was ravenous when he had his dinner of a milkshake mixture of the two above mentioned cans.

I spent last night on the kitchen floor with him. He is supposed to be crated but we were unable to get him in the crate. DH had gotten an air mattress for me to sleep on and before I knew it Haley was on it with me snuggled right up against me. He would get too hot and sit up and pant for awhile then lay on the floor for awhile and then back on the air mattress with me.

Haley is such a good boy taking his meds with out much fuss and is not fighting the e-collar so far. Hopefully in 9 days everything will be back to normal.

Thanks to everyone for their prayers and good wishes.

[shelly]

I just saw this post as recent... I got worried that he had another problem... glad this was the same post and this is something of the past!

[Linda and "Toby"]

Oh, poor baby! I hope he has a speedy recovery! How is he doing with his stitches? When Toby had exploratory abdominal surgery earlier this year, the razor burns drove him completely batty. (He was possibly allergic to the pain killers, too.) Cortisone creams didn't help much. He scratched his sides until they became infected. We finally put one of my t-shirts on him and tied the waist part of it in a knot on his back. It helped immensely because he would scratch the shirt instead of his skin.

[shelly]

Haley's mom... that's great!!! How is he doing today? Hope all is well!

[Anne & Mr. Haley]

Shelly, We live in a very rural area where the cost of living is not as high as more populated areas.

[Linda, Webber and Seda]

So glad Haley is doing well. That was some huge rock!

[shelly]

So glad to hear he is doing better! WOW!!! look at that rock! $850.00???? I have a teeny tiny screw (have NO idea where it came from) from Tori that she 'passed' thank GOD that cost $1,100 dollars without an operation! I even posted it on my pics - lol So glad to hear all is well... these doodles can get into such predicaments!
:)

[Adrianne Matzkin]

Thrilled to hear both of you are feeling better!! Wonder what the attraction was to swollow that rock! Very scary time but I am glad that he is doing better.

[cheryl & oliver]

I can not believe the size of that rock!!!...Thank goodness, he is ok, and by the way, I would have slept with him too, lol, I have a feeling we all would have done the same thing...thank goodness he is not fighting you with the collar, Oliver took a long time to get used to it, he freaked out for the first couple of days...Hugs and good wishes to all of you from your friends here in florida

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Oh, I love that you cuddled Haley all night. How sweet. What we do for our doodles. I am glad he is on the mend.

[Yvonne N]

Thank goodness Haley is okay. Lots of loving will make him better too.