Dear friends-
Well, I am still fighting the good fight. I eat every day now, but I still have to get a lot of medicine and I still have to be fed through a tube at least once a day- and I HATE that! Almost as much as all the fluids I have to get in my veins and under my skin. But I don't want to eat anything but that roasted chicken I told you about, even though Mom keeps reminding me that it really isn't the best thing for my sick kidneys.
My blood tests are still awful. My BUN is up to 169 and it should be below 25. Mom says it would be better if I ate a special kidney diet, but she also says that the best diet for anyone in kidney failure is the one they will eat, and the chicken is the only thing that tastes good to me right now.
But guess what? I finally scared the deer away today! It took a long time, and those deer have gotten awfully bold lately, but when I saw them today eating the mulberries I walked out into the yard as fast as I could go and I barked and I made them run away! (Well, OK....maybe they ran away partly because Canuke came running, too, when he heard me bark. But he stood behind me, so I am sure that it was ME who scared them the most. He may weigh 100 pounds but I am MUCH fiercer than he is!)
And then I went into the house and I snarled Hebert off of my bed and made him run, and I went up to Canuke and snarled at him for good measure and made him lay down, and then I made them both leave the living room and go outside and I laid by the door and kept them outside a good long time to show them that I am still boss. Boy, were they surprised. I need a big long nap now - that was hard work!
I got a really cool card from Nicky and Natascha (who want to take me for a ride in their pink Cadillac) and one from Kai and Zeke (who reinforced that it is OK to be picky about my food) and lots of good thoughts from so many friends and from the nice people at Colonel Potter's Cairn Rescue group (that's where my friend Thibideaux came from and where YOU should go to find a Cairn companion of your own). Mom reads all the cards and notes to me and they make both of us feel a lot better. Keep thinking good thoughts for me, OK?
LIZZIE
