Please help give Tama a chance to come home to us

My heart was so heavy on Friday when the vet was telling me we might need to do the right thing for Tama and stop his suffering. It just didn’t feel the right thing to do and I was struggling with the fact that he was going to be spending most of the weekend at the After Hours vet. Every time we picked up Tama he was so out of it, really groggy and very stiff. Each time we got to the local vets I felt my heart relax, the care there has been phenomenal. On my way to our 3:30pm meeting I said to Ross, what if the seizures he is suffering from is actually just his separation anxiety and the fussing noise and paddling is just him wanting to see us?

Well, we got to Tama he was quiet, on fluids and anaesthesia meds and lying down. The vet had said on the walk down the passage way that he’d eaten and drank and was very settled and was calmer that day but when they look him off the meds he would be very unhappy. Well, when he saw us he went crazy, licking us, squealing with delight and wide wide awake. The vet commented it was the most animated he’d been all day. We stayed and chatted and I asked the vet what the seizure looked it, he described it and I paused and then asked him just to hear me out. I said, I know Tama is really sick, believe me I’m not in denial about that, but what if it’s his separation anxiety not a seizure? He said it could be and that we should explore that option. I jokingly said I don’t want him going to after hours, explained why and said I just wish he could come home with us, he said he could, it wouldn’t be difficult. I thought he was joking but no. He said how about I see my next few patients and you decide and we chat again around 5pm. Well poor Ross had to rush off to pick up one daughter and get your new glasses fitted, pick the other up from my bestie as she saved me by taking the small child extremely last minute. So there I sad, on the linoleum floor in the vets, feeling like I’d won lotto. Holding my now very relaxed licky immobile, incontinent dog, watching him look me in the eyes for the first time, seeing him grin up at me with his warm wee saturating my pants until I felt I couldn’t take it anymore, but loving every minute, feeling a glimmer of hope, that he actually might be anxious not having seizures.

We’ll long story short as I do like to talk, my boy has been home 2 nights. He is loving it, he is so chilled, so doted on. Has enjoyed cuddles outside on the deck in the sunshine, games played with food (brain stimulation exercises) and so much love.

Tama has all the drips and bandages off now and will see the vet every second day, and the rest of the time we’ll play nurse to him. We’ve got physio, a new raw diet, brain stimulation exercises and a whole lot of loving to do this week. We’re not sure what this week will bring if the next one but for now what we’re doing just feels right.

Thank you again from the bottom of our hearts for your extremely kind donations.

Much love always

Candi, Ross, Sophie, Annabelle, fur baby Tia, Polly the cat and Tama his mummy’s precious boy xxxx