Long few days-

After the fiasco with what is now known as 'the pill day' followed by the "we can't get him to stop throwing up!" days, Toby is once again improving. Dr. Clark came day before yesterday to check him out AGAIN and decided to give the VERY wobbly, very WEAK little pink-faced dog a shot of vitamin B complex and another steroid shot as well. This one is long term, so we don't have to worry about trying to hide that little white pilled called Prednisone in his food! He was doing so GOOD before the pill incident which will haunt me for a very LONG time. Now he has suffered a set-back but the vet said that he is still considers it a good sign that he has not gone into complete paralysis. He thinks that if he was going to, he would have by now. Four weeks...and counting.

The two shots have helped remarkably! He has improved once again and the real worry was, when holding him down to get the 5 or 6 syringes filled with hydrogen peroxide down his throat (see post before the Pepto Post by clicking on blog header~ which will take you to my entire blog) and then two days later having to struggle with Pepto Bismol to stop his puking. We were VERY WORRIED about having hurt him further. We had done everything possible to brace his back when administering those life-saving meds...but man- even sick, a dog can struggle!! SO, we are MORE then relieved to see that once again Toby is beginning to walk- he is still wobbly of course, but he is getting stronger and a bit crankier with our other little bouncy, happy chihuahua Meeka. (good sign- she is pestering him from boredom!)

Another bit of GOOD news- we were able to wash his little face, which is still PINK, but lighter!