March Miracle

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March started strong with a warm, sleepy painting of a cute Chihuahua named garbanzo, basking in the sun.

As soon as I finished it, I jumped right into the next, a wonderful spring themed painting...that is not quite done yet, because I ended up completely derailed for the rest of the month.

More on that in a minute.

In The Studio:

For February and the first week of March, it felt a little like waking up from a long nap, and having a big stretch.

I was having ideas I liked and doing a reasonably good job at getting them out of my head and onto a canvas.

I had found my rhythm again.

And then life, like it does, pulled the rug out from under me.

At Home:

[Spoiler alert: so far, the ending looks happy]

No sooner was I feeling at ease that the health issues with my dogs was over and behind me, then my little man got sick again.

He got very sick, involving multiple organ systems, and spent five days hospitalized in critical care. Without improvement.

Then they transitioned him to oral meds and subcutaneous fluids (instead of IV) so that he could go home.

But he wasn’t any better.

I continued treating him at home, days passed, no improvement.

After a particularly bad morning, and anxiety ridden day (worried that I was going to have to let him go), I came home to find him looking a little brighter, stronger and hungrier than he had in the over 10 days since it all started.

I had reason to hope.

It’s been more than another 10 days since then, with mostly ups and some downs. He had another recheck at the vet today and his lab work has improved significantly. Some of his liver enzymes are still very high, but no longer off the chart like they were before. And several other markers have returned to normal.

We will continue treatment, hoping for more improvement. I’m getting my hopes up.

But he’s feeling much better, eating well, and even getting a little playful.

The past few weeks have felt like a nightmare, I just kept wishing that I would wake up and everything would be OK. I was so sure that I was going to lose him.

His recovery at this point feels like a miracle.

He’s my precious little miracle boy. The sweet spunky Chihuahua and I are so thankful that he’s still here with us and feeling better, we were so lost without him while he was away.

In the meantime, I think spring happened!

Are you having a beautiful spring?

I hope the weather is pleasant and the birds are singing in your world.

Hug your dogs and be grateful, we have so much to be thankful for.

God bless!

Jennifer