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Lucy didn’t have a very good day yesterday. We always worry about her when she doesn’t eat, and she skipped two meals yesterday. She ate her first morning meal and her second noon meal, but after that she just didn’t want to eat. And she seems to drop weight if she eats less than four [...]

I seem to only get pictures of Lucy in her chair anymore. I need some of her standing… as she does stand and walk around too! But she is just so cute in her chair. Lucy gets to go to the vet today.  She’s been drinking a lot, and urinating a lot, and her urine [...]

Lucy is such a good girl and she’s doing so well with her Bailey’s Chair. Sometimes she still worries us.. okay, most times we are still worried about her. But she’s gained her weight back and her energy is back up to normal, and we are happy about that. My friend Christy reminded me about [...]

I have the best husband in the world. And Lucy has the best Dad. She has megaesophagus… as you might know from prior posts. If anyone has missed out… she no longer has muscles in her esophagus that can move her food into her stomach. So if she eats regular food, the food gets stuck [...]

Well, now that the initial shock of Lucy’s megaesophagus is over… the stress is settling in. Usually I can take charge of a situation and handle it at first. Do what needs to be done. And then later the whole impact sets in and I start to really get bothered by it. Our collie girl [...]

When we feed Lucy now, we are feeding her a blended mix of a can of canned food and a can of water. It’s working really well. And she loves it, of course! We have to keep her head elevated for about fifteen minutes so gravity will help the food move her food down into [...]

Well Lucy is home.. the husband went and picked her up. The good news is that the vets didn’t find anything bad in her esophagus. It is definitely enlarged, thus the Mega esophagus… but there is no evidence of tumors or anything else bad. And the sphincter between the esophagus and the stomach is fine, [...]

Well Lucy goes in today for her endoscopy. I think that’s what it’s called… they put a tube down her throat and they are going to put a balloon down there too, to expand the tight spot that is right above her stomach and the lower part of her esophagus. Dangit, I should really learn [...]

Well, us humans and Lucy are doing okay!  I am very happy to say that we got two whole cans of food down her yesterday. Not all at once, of course.  I threw a can in the blender, then one can of water, and blended it up nice and smooth. Then throughout the day I [...]