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We want
to say thank you so very much for all the pawsitive notes of support &
encouragement. We have simply been in total awe of all the outpouring of
complete love & caring from our friends in the golden
community!!!
The past
several days have been "beyond stressful" for us, worrying about our boy
Jake! Knowing that we've had the prayers and good wishes of so many has
helped beyond belief! We feel incredibly blessed to be part of such a
widespread golden network of friends!
We went
& collected Sir Jake from our Vet's office around 6:45 this evening &
got the complete lowdown from two of our Vets regarding his surgery.
Apparently all three of the Vets in the practice we go to, participated in
Jacob's surgery. His surgery took quite a bit longer than anticipated --
about an hour & 45 minutes. We are extremely fortunate that we got him
in when we did. The surgery was indeed critical & "life saving"... but
it could have been so much worse. Adam & Jeff (our Vets) were very
pleased with how his stomach, intestines & bowels looked when they got in
there & after they cleaned out the remnants of the last knee high nylon
& parts of my bra. There was no damage to his internal organs -- THANK
GOD!!!
At the
advice of our local team of experts... we decided to move Jake to an overnight
emergency care clinic for round the clock monitoring. They were completely
comfortable with us taking Jake home... but really felt it was best if he was in
the hands of professionals for the evening. He will be on IV's all
night. He was very groggy when we picked him up... but did wag his tail
when he saw his Mommy & Daddy! We took a t-shirt of Rick's for him to
cuddle with and his favorite "safe" Teddy Bear woobie to keep him snuggly
throughout the evening.
We are
picking him up first thing in the morning & taking him back to our
Vet's for monitoring for the day tomorrow. He will likely be well enough
to come home with us tomorrow evening. He is definitely NOT out of the
woods yet -- as the first 48 hours are critical in fighting off infection from
the surgery.
When we
arrived at the emergency clinic... we were pleasantly surprised to be greeted by
one of our local "golden friends" who works there part time (and we didn't even
know it)!!! It was very comforting to see Kim there with her smiling face
-- it definitely helped to alleviate some anxiety in leaving our baby boy there
for the evening.
Rick will
update more tomorrow. Right now we are incredibly exhausted and hope we
can get some rest tonight. This has definitely been the BIGGEST scare of
my life -- my boy Jake is the love of my life (and of his Daddy's life
too).
doG bless
everyone for your wonderful support!
Yanna &
Rick
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