Honey Update!!

[The Berry Oaks Doodle Ranch]

Honey is in the most capable and and loving arms of Dr. Beam and his staff in Alvarado, Texas.  I spent some time with her before his staff took her in the back.  They explained she would have her surgery by Friday or Monday at the latest.  She then will begin a grueling and painful, for the first several weeks, 4-8 week rehabilitation.  Dr. Beam's assistant explained that because she is young it will probably be no more than 6 weeks and may be even quicker.  That is good news.

Before I departed his office to start back to Savannah I asked if I could see her again.  They took me back through their incredible facility to their kennels.  She was standing there in her large kennel with her favorite sleeping rug and her toys, but looking forlorn and confused.  I sat with her and held her through the kennel while she licked my ears, also known as Doodle Kisses.  I promised I would come back for her soon.  I then left.  It was not a good.....for me.

After regaining my composure I headed toward Savannah making it to Minden, LA before stopping for the night.  Tomorrow early evening I will make it back home. All-in-all I will log about 2800 miles.  Well worth it to me...and Joyce. 

Please keep in mind this was a DRC family effort.  We all participated whether it be making flight arrangements, the vets devoting their time and resources, her fosters, her transportation, those who donated for her surgery or the many who gave morale support to the latter.  As Jacquie commented today, we, DRC, are a family and a family can do awesome things together.

OK...time to get some rest and hit the road again tomorrow.  Thank y'all for everything EVERYONE has done.

Nite.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Check the link for lots more photos of the boys after they arrived. The last photo in the discussion link is of Hoss and his smallest littermate, and it gives you a good idea of what a bruiser this guy was, lol! 

I love that Honey's surgery is being performed by a vet who adopted a puppy from the DRC! He had also previously operated on another DRC doodle. 

[Jacquie Yorke (DRC)]

Dr. Beam operated on numerous DRC doodles some of which were emergency orthopedic surgeries...... He has always donated huge portions of his fees to DRC and Hoss was our gift to him and his family.

[Lonnie & Libby Lu]

OMD - Sooooo adorable:)   Thanks for sharing Karen!

[The Berry Oaks Doodle Ranch]

Awesome!!!

[Jacquie Yorke (DRC)]

He was "Gilbert"........Then he was "Hoss" at Nina's......Dr. Beam flew to Atlanta to pick him up and then turned around and flew back to Dallas with Hoss as "carry on" a few hours later.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Nina labeled him as Leo/Lewis/Hoss in some of the photos, so it was confusing with all the names. 

[DJ & Chance]

Adorable

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

Late seeing this but thanks for sharing it! What a cute face :))

[Robin and Libby Louise]

Adorable!  I would love to see him all grown up!

[Jacquie Yorke (DRC)]

Dr. Beam is going to be sending photos of Honey's weekend with Cypress and his family. We will post them as soon as we receive them.

[Camilla and Darwin]

Thanks for the update on Honey! Thinking of her and Dr. Beam and hoping the surgery goes well! I'm sure it will.

[The Berry Oaks Doodle Ranch]

Honey Update!!!!

Here it is Folks....Honey is out of surgery and doing fine.  I just spoke with Jacquie and she said Dr. Beam basically gave Honey a thumbs up.  She was groggy and was trying to wag her tail.  That's our Honey.  Naturally, she will be sedated for several days.  He said she went through the surgery fine and everything looks good after post-op X-rays.  Yeah Honey!!!!!

One hard part over, the next begins, but this is the easy part for she has everyone behind her, again.  Things are looking good for Honey. 

For all concerned about how she got in this condition, he believes, strongly, it is solely genetic. Good news for a lot of us.

Another update sometime tomorrow morning, but I am extremely confident it will be a good as this one was.