More about me

OK... more of my story....

So, when I was about 3 months old, Mom started noticing something strange about me. She thought maybe I was just... slow. A 'special' dog. I just didn't keep up with the girls at all. They would run and I would sleep.

Then, one night, I started walking the perimeter of the room. Just walking around against the walls and/or couch. I would stop, lie down, but within 30 seconds I'd be up walking again. Mom and Dad watched me for about an hour doing this. Mom does recall that the night before I had a difficult time finding a comfy spot to sleep, but I did finally get to sleep. But it didn't look like I was going to get any sleep the night I walked the walls. Then, I started walking into things. I was blind!

Mom took me to the doggie ER... they are so nice there... and they said my ammonia levels were way high. After tests and more tests, the nice doctors at the ER thought I had a liver problem. But liver problems in Bostons are rare, they said. HA! The only way they could definitely know what they were dealing with was to open me up, and so they did!..

Bad news. I have a liver shunt. Now, that is rare in Bostons, so they told Mom... but in small dogs the shunts are generally on the outside of the liver and fixable. Not so with me. I had the rare inside the liver shunt. Not fixable. To make matters even worse, there is an aneurysm on the shunt in my liver. That could burst any time and that would be that. The docs can do nothing about this aneurysn, It is still there.

The first prognosis was five years. That was before my gall bladder became infected right after my first birthday and they discovered my liver was not growing at all. Now the prognosis is that I will not see my second birthday (which is next month) but I'm defying all their predictions. I'm doing very well now, thankyouverymuch!

I don't know how to get the picture to the bottom of the post, but if I knew, here would be where the picture goes :) I'm the one whispering in my sister's ear, but that was when I was a mere 2 months old.