sick as a dog

my dog kaiser had emergency spinal surgery on friday. he couldn’t walk on thursday and we took him to the vet, where they found a herniated disc in his neck. he had to have the surgery or he would become paralyzed. he is recovering but is unable to stand up or walk on his own, so i am a big time rehab nurse right now. there’s a lot of flipping and cleaning and laundering and grooming going on and neither of us are too thrilled about it, but i can see that slowly, with great effort and difficulty, he is getting better. because of this there likely will be sporadic posting this week, and i apologize for that.

right before he started to become immobile

thanks for your patience.

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first snow

i don’t want anyone to think i’m playing favorites in my flickr stream, so here’s kaiser, my great big ten year old greater swiss mountain dog.

his breed used to pull the butcher’s carts in the alps, but this guy thinks he’s from jamaica and hates the cold. he looks awfully handsome in it though!

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