Those quilters have really attached to this story, haven't they, Sterling?
The vet said they'll get solid foods in him today and see how he does. She felt to avoid any possibility of a set-back, he needed to wait till Monday.
Here's the update I wrote out:
Oh my GOSH!! We took him outside by a picnic table surrounded in stones--it's easy for them to bleach that area--so we couldn't go on the grass. But he was WONDERFUL!! He walked all over--peed three times--let me snuggle him--licked our faces--he seems practically normal! Amazing!! We were with him for half an hour!
Mark didn't get back in time --Rach and I couldn't wait a second longer, but we can go back to see him before 3:00!! Then visiting tomorrow is too hard for them... but he should be home on Monday!!
I talked to this NICE vet and she said there's a very slim change Buddy would ever get this again because he's built immunities--the precautions are more for any other puppies coming to our place. This is the first puppy we've had here in 11 years--so no worries there. We're still going to bleach some areas we know he pooped in after he came back from the vet's the first time and keep him off where he pooped before, but not for 7 months. Once he's had a series of vaccines, he should be good. WHEW!! This doc also said it's very good for him to see us.
Oh how I want him to come home today... but we've been through all this--I guess Monday will be fine.
If he didn't come home Sunday, I was headed to a horse show two former students are in... so they'll be happy I can go. Wed morning I'm helping a teenager with her horses at the county fair--but Rach will be here and Buddy adores her. Then Friday is my surgery--but it should only be about 3 hours we're gone... hopefully. My dad would come over to take him out of his crate if we needed him to.
BUDDY"S BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!