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I WAS FREAKED OUT BOUT 2 MONTHS AGO WHEN I FELT BUT COULD NOT SEE THROUGH HARLYS JET BLACK BOARDER COLLIE/ BLACK LAB MIX, NEVER A FLEA 1 EVEN ACCORDING TO OUR VET, SHE SAID SHE NEVER SAW ANY ANIMAL THAT DID NOT HAVE FLEAS! BUT SOME UNKNOW READON SE COULD NOT FIGURE OUT! HARLY ENDED UP HAVING MOST OF HIS BACKSIDE, SIDE OF HIPS BACK JUST TO HIS TAIL SHAVED! MY THOUGHTS WERE MAYBE A SPIDER GOT HIM SEVERAL TIMES, I SPRAYED & LOOKED ALL OVER FOR WHAT WAS STARTING TO MAKE GO FROM DEEP SLEEP TO BITING HIS BACK JUSTABOVE HIS HIPS OUT OF THE BLUE! TIL THEY FOUND THE AREA WAS SO LARGE CAUSE HE HAD PUSS POCKETS JUST UNDER HIS SKIN? WENT HOME WITH ANTIBIOTICS, THAT PROVED HE WAS ALLERGICE TO OVER THE WEEKEND. HE NO LONGER SEEMED TO NEED THE PAIN PILLS. SO ALONG WITH THOSE MEDS WE WERE ASKED FOR A UA, AMAZINGLY MY CAREGIVER GOT ONE FOR ME. UA WAS CLEAN! OH, WAS TOLD TO GET TRIPPLE ANTIBIOTIC TO PUT ON SAVED AREA & TO NOT LET HIM BITE SCRATCH. ABOUT 3 WEEKS HE STARTED SCRATCHINGG HIS BACK AGAIN, LEGS & BELLY &PENIS/ SHAFT. OVER THE WEEKEND & BACK ON WITH THE HATED CONE COLLAR! I GOT HIM AN APPOINTMENT WHEN SUDDENLY HE WUIT EATING BOUT THE NEXT WEEK, HE WOULDNT AGAIN JUMP THE RETAINING WALL AGAIN TAKING HIS CONE COLLAR OFF JUST TO GET HIM TO A PLACE TO USE THE BATHROOM THE EASIEST WAY FOR BOTH OF US, IM CONGINDEC TO A WHEELCHAIR & HAD TROUBLE GETTING HI FAST ENOUGH CHANGING FROM MANUAL TO ELECTRIC CHAIR! I STACKED MY STUDDED TIRES WITH WHEELS & PUT A HEAVILY FOLDER TOWEL SO HE WOULD NOT SLIP OR GET A TOE STUCK IN THE WHEE). THEN OVER THE WEEKEND CALLI G THE VET ER FILLING HER IN ON EVRRYTHING! HE LOOKED LIKE HE WOULD EAT HOLE OR RIP HIS BACK WIDE OPE ! HE DID BETTER WITH THE NEW ANTIBIOTIVS. I ASKED BOUT A MECICATION GENERIC F OR VISTEREL 25MG 2 UP TO 4 TIMES A DAY AT 68.2 LBS FOR THE SEVERE JTCHING & ASKED COULD HE BE GETTING JUST IN THE HABIT, VERY SMART DOG AS HE FINALLY FILLED OUT A FEW WEEKS BEFORE & CELEBRATED HIS 5TH BUT 4TH BDAY WITH ME. HE PICKED UP PUTTING HIS PAWS BY WATCHING THE NEIGHBORS DOG DO IT 1 TIME! I WAS OKED TO GIVE HIM UP TO .5MG BUT TO TRY HALF THAT FIRST IN HOPES LESS IS BETTER! WHICH IT DID HELP A LOT & CUDDLED ON THE COIUCH SO HE DID NOT HAVE TO WEAR THAT CO E 24/7 & HE WAS AN AWESOME CUDDLER! I STILL FEEL HIM AT TIMES USING MY FEET AS A PILLOW! OVER NIGHT NO SLEEP FOR ME OUR LAST WEEKEND! VET OPENS ON TUESDAYS? I WANTED TO CALL FIRST THING BUT HARLY & I FINA Y GOT A FEW HOURS SLEEP & MY CAREGIVER CAME TOOK HIM FOR HIS AM WALK & SHE LET ME SLEEP TIL ALL EMERGENCY SLOTS WERE GONE & WZS SET JP THE NEXT DAY. I FELT SICK. GOTTALLY EXHAUSTED & CAREGIVER SAID SHE WKULD TAKE HIM FOR SO I COULD REST. NO! HE WONT COME HOME, HE WOULD AT LEAST NEED I. & OBSERVATION, BUT I KNEW HIS KEDNEYS WERE SHUTTING DOWN & TOLD OUR VET SO. WHEN THE BLOOD WORK CAME BACK WHILE SHE WAS GOING OVER HIS LIFE & HOW MY NEIGHBORS HAD PUT OUT CRAP THAT HE COULD GET TO WITH JUST ENOUGH LEASH TO GET ME OUT THE DOOR AFTER HIM, WE BOTH DIDNT FIT TOGETHER! PPL KEPT THROWING I BELIEVE MOSTLY THE NEIGHBOR ABOVE WOULD THROUGH BAD FOOD DOWN WHERE HE USUALLY WENT TO THE BATHROOM & I STARTED LOOKINH BEFORE LETTING HI. UP, THEY WOULD TRY PUTTING IT OUT OF MY REACH & OR WAY INTO THE BUSHES!!! MANAGER TURNED I TO INTIMADATING WORSE WORD YOU COULD THINK OF! IM HAERD OF HEARING & WHEN I FIRST MOVED I. & BEFORE HAD MEDICAL NEEDED HELP. AFTER LIVING IN MY S10 LONG BED NO KING CAB, FOR 9 MONTHS I KNEW I HAD TO DO A LOT OF WORK & KNEW IN MY GUT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX WAS NOT THE BEST FOR HARLY BEING ON A LEASH UNLESS INDOORS & THEN I ALSO HAD TO CAUSE NEW PPL WOULD COME & GO THAT WANTED TO TALK WITH THE DOOR OPEN & HARLY WOULD DO WHAT HE COUL# TO HET OUT! HE HATED SO MANY PPL AFTER A HOISE HIS FIRST YR & DUPLEX WITH MORE TRAFFIC THAN HE WAS USED TO BUT NOTHING LIKE THIS COMPLEX & ON SITE MANAGER THAT CALLED ME THE RUDEST PERSON & RENTER CAUSE I DIDNT RETURN HER GOODMORNING, I NEVER HEARD & TOLD HER I W A S HARD OF HEARING THEN CUT M E OFF SAYING IT WAS JUST AN EXCUSE, JUST SHORT OF BEING A LIAR! OUR LAST DAY TOGETHER I KNEW WHAT THE DAY HELD, I NOW KNEWHE WAS IN PAIN THREW UP ANY LIWUIDS WATER OR CHICKEN BROTH & NO LONGER WOULD TAKE PILLS IN MY HOMEMADE SPAGETTI SAUCE JUST SAUCE & A LIL BURGER THAT HAD BEEN SLOW COOKER 4 DAYS. AS I STARTED TO TYPE EARLIER THAT UPTIL THE BLOOD TEST , IVY WAS GOING OVER EVERYTHING HE ATE SINCE HE STARTED LIVING WITH ME THAT I TRAINED TO BE A MOBILITY SERVICE DOG THAT AMAZINGLY COULD DETECT OR PREFICT MY PAIN BEFORE I KNEW! I NEVER SPENT AS MUCH OR HALF AS MUCH TIME WITH LIVING BEING IN MY LIFE! HARLY WAS MY EVERYTHING, SERVICE DOG, COMPANION 24/7/365! TIL ALL THE PREVIOUS & THEN HAVINNG TOYS THRWN AT HIM FROM THE OLD LADY THAR JATED HIM BUT TO HARLY BEING ABOSRDER COLLIE/ BLACK LAB MIX, HE THOUGHT OF THEM AS FAMILY & ONLY BARKED AT TANYAS HUBBY TIL HARLY GOT TO KNOW WITH LONG HOURS OR IF HE HAD BEEN STAR^LED. MANGER TOLD THAT HARLY MIGHT BITE, FINALLY A NEIGHBOR BROUGHT HARLY HOME WHEN I WAS STUCK ON PATIO IN ELECTRIC CHAIR & PROVED MY SUSPITIONS, HARLYS BARKED AT PPL HE LIKED! THAT SAME MAN A UKRAINIAN VERY LIL ENGLISH.WE USED ENGLISH HOW MUCH HE UNDERSTOOD IM NOT SURE BUT HE USED HOME SIGN LANGUAGE & I WENT TO SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & HARD OF HEARING. TO TUTOR & INTRRPETING. ONE DAY HARLY KEPT BARKJNG AT HIM H HE HAD A CONFUSED LOOK ON NIS FACE, I TOLD HE IS SAYING COME PET OR PLAY WITH ME? MY NEIGHBOR ASKED AGAIN IF HE WOULD BITE, I SAID KNOW HES NOT LIKE THAT SO MY 60+YO BRIDE JOINED HER GROOM & BOTH GAVE HARLY SOME PETTING & HARLY WZS EXSTATIC! I HAVE NEVER SPENT MORE ACTUAL TIME AWAKE & OR ASLEEP WITH ANY OTHER CREATURE & I HAVE NEVER BEEN MARRIED AT 51YO BUT I FEEL AS IF I LOST THE CLOSEST RELATIONSHIP AS MY GRANDMA & GRANDPA GOULET THAT THAT NOT ONLY MARRIED TIL HE DIED IN 72 BUT THEY RAN PASCO ELECTRIC TIL RETIREMENT! I GET GRANDMA NOW, SHE NEVER TALKED AS IF HE WERE DEAD SHE ALWAYS TALK BOUT THE PAST BUT NEVER DEATH HIM AS DEAD. I WAKE UP CALLING HARLY & BECAUSE OF AN INJURY OF TAKING A SCHIZOPHRENIC MEDICATION WHICH I DID NOT KNOW I WAS ON, IT WAS FOR NAUSIA & BOMITING I DONT KNOW IF, I CANT FACE THE REALITY OF HIS DEATH, IF THAT MEDICATION IS NOT GOING TO SPARE ME FROM ONGOING LASTING AFFECTS & KNOWN OF OTHERS THAT ENDING UP WITH ONE OF THE DISEASES THAT THE MEDICATION WAS MEANT TO TREAT! OR GRANDMAS ALTZHIMERS ORJUST LOOSING IN THE LAST 3 YRS ON THAT MEDICATION MAY HAVE CAUSED MY BEHAVIOR THAT MY CAREGIVER THOUGHT I WAS BIPOLAR & JUST FINALLY DIAGNOSED WITH DEPRESSION & MY MOM TRYING LOCK ME UP IN A MENTAL HOSPT SO SHE CO <LD RAISER MY SON AS HER OWN, I NAMED MY SON AFTER MY STILL BORN BROTHER, THAT I WOULD HAVE RAISED MY STEP BROTHERS! SORRY FOR BLEEDING ALL OVER ALL OF YOU! WITH MY PERSONAL LIFE & LOOSING THE LAST OF MY FAMILY & MY HEART & SOUL WITH MY LIFE PARTNER, BUDDY & MOBILITY SERVICE DOG? MY TRAINER TOLD ME HE WAS NEVER TO SOCIALIZED WITH OTHER PPL OR ANIMALS & DOG PARKS WERE ABOVE ALL ELSE NO DOG PARKS EVER! PLEASE EXCUSE THE CAPS IM B ISUALLY IMPAIRED, BIND TO READING WITHOUT GLASSES & SOME HOW THE GOOD EYE LENS SOME HOWROLLED OVER & CANT NOT SEE WELL OUT OF THE OTHER! I ALSO APOLOGIZE IF I BROKE ANY RULES. IVE NEVER FELT SO LOST IN MY LIFE!!!! THANKS Leatherladysam63
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