And Then We Went Back Sunday Night

Mother's instinct;

cannot explain it, but we

know what we know,

and I am not his mother but

 I knew Howie was just not right.

Although he was walking around 

and waggin' his tail and poopin' and peeing and 

eating and drinking,

this pooch had something wrong.

Sunday night around 9:30

he refused to get out of his bed,

and I was so afraid that if I went up to bed,

in the morning

he might not be with me any longer.

Sooooo

off again driving cross town to the emergency vet.

I opened the door saying

"we're back" to Angela at the desk.

This time he POOPED on  

the door stoop, not even making it into the 

room. A very crowded room of people

found this to be hilarious and of course

Howie was acting like all was well.

After hearing his story, Angela and

several other pet owners weighed in that he was 

just depressed and quite a few believed he 

was having "visions" of a returned ghost Justice....

I hesitated about a second and

even though there were two critical cases

ahead of me, we waited the 3 hours,

(now almost 1:00 am)

AND

the vet found that Howie had hurt his neck

and the behavior was due to pain that came and went.

When he got excited, car trips, vet trips etc

 his adrenalin activated and he pushed through the pain.

I recalled that he refused to use the doggie door

since Friday and the vet and I had an ahah! moment 

of he did not want to lower his neck!

Closer examination and BINGO

Lots and lots of $Benjamins$ later we came home

 and within a couple hours of meds he jumped on the couch

for the first time in three days,

and went into a deep dopey sleep.

I started weeping I was so relieved.

They advised I keep him off the stairs,

 and keep an eye on him,

since he would be "high"

so I slept (barely) on the couch.

This morning he is following me everywhere,

and very active in between pills.

I'm exhausted 

or the word of the weekend 

"pooped"

and now I have a stiff neck from couch.

Ghost Justice watches over him

and we'll both be sleeping the day away.

I am so grateful.