More Charlie

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I got to the vet around 2:30 after a tearful scooter ride and a lot of heartache over the decision I'd made. I wanted to go alone.

I spent about an hour with him, while the vet finished a surgery. He was looking better - better than he had seemed when I called at 8am and again at 11 - and eating really well. I was having a very hard time with figuring out what to do.

I talked with the doctor for about 20 minutes, as we let Charlie out of his cage to roam. He appears to be turning around, and the doctor was encouraging after all this trauma and expense to get him cleaned out, to give some special food and some meds a try before giving up. They are "inexpensive" ($50 a month for the pills, $36 a month for the food, $10 a month for the laxative), and administration of them is business as usual - twice a day, just like the antibiotics he's been on.

I have a follow up appointment next Tuesday. I'm optimistic. Even if he just ends up full of poop and having to be put down next week, he is acting himself and now we have some time to say goodbye, if that's where things turn again.

*sigh*. Life.