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<div><br>Last night out of nowhere, Llewis (who has been very slow and grumpy lately) Llewis sat down and SCREAMED as if he had been hit by a car. We went dashing into the room and he was whimpering and crying but sitting down and then stopped and got up and seemed fine. Nervous as cats, we went about our business and in about ten minutes he SCREAMED again a couple of times and we found him sitting again, struggling to stand (he always has trouble-- this is the dog with the badly malformed rear end: no femur on one side, and a frozen rear leg, no kneecap on it and so on.) Watching with our hearts in our throats we saw that when he sat a certain way he screamed in agony.</div>
<div>Thinking it was Saturday (I had had a dog show) I thought Doc was closed. By the time Llewis had screamed a couple more times I realised it was FRIDAY and they would have still been open, but by then it was after 8:30 at night when they close. So I called Doc on his cell and he asked what drugs I had left and I found some Robaxin and some Deramax from Mitchell so we gave him that and he was much better, slept well.</div>
<div>This morning I whisked him in altho he was happy as a clam and bouncing all over the place. We did three rads and saw only that (as it always has been) his spinal column is a horror show. But there was nothing that looked horrible. As we were discussing this, Llewis coughed. I mentioned he had been doing that. Just chuffing now and then, nothing exciting. They all are. Eating grass and then chuffing...so Doc checked his heart (fine) and looked down his throat-- giant tonsils.</div>
<div>S**T. Conley has had tonsilitis twice and I swore one more time and out they come (Mitchell had his out). So we ended up with:</div>
<div>3 back x-rays (and you know it wasn't 3 for one day)</div>
<div>1 bottle of Robaxin (20 -pills)</div>
<div>1 bottle of Deramax (20 pills)</div>
<div>1 bottle of Doxcycline: 1.5 pills 3x a day for 3 dogs for 14 days.....</div>
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<div>I didn't even look at the bill. They'll send it at the end of the month. I can't even think about it without getting nauseous, and this guy is not that expensive, comparitively speaking.</div>
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<div>Hope everyone is having a healthy weekend!!</div>
<div>MomPerson to Nigel (chuffing: yes his tonsils are enlarged) Llewis (we know about him) Conley (Big tonsils) and Cooper, who is fine.</div></font></font>