Wed., Mar. 7, 2012 - Bleeding again

When I wrote the last blog entry, I must have jinxed myself.  Hardee's nose has been bleeding since Sunday night, off and on.  Today has been really bad with blood dripping and spewing everywhere when he sneezes.  Fortunately, the bleeding is painless for Hardee.  I wish I could say the same for us as this is all so hard sometimes.

Hardee continues to eat and drink with gusto (he just finished a big wedge of Colby cheese that Jim broke apart into small pieces for an afternoon snack) and he has quality to his life, so we don't think it is his time to leave us yet.  When the fistula opened in Hardee's mouth, I thought the parameters for determining when Hardee left us for the bridge had changed from bleeding and pain we couldn't control, to whether he continued to eat and drink and had life quality.  Now I think we are back to using the first set of parameters, with emphasis on bleeding we can't control.

A couple months ago, we went to a Chinese medicine store and bought some Yunnan Baiyao.  It is supposed to help control bleeding, though I don't know if it really works or not.  We haven't tried it yet, until this moment.  I've been nervous about trying it because of the contaminants in things coming from China, though I don't know if my worries should apply in this case.  We are getting desperate enough now to control this bleeding that I guess contaminants are the least of our worries.

We were in AZ last weekend for agility.  Jim and Hardee qualified in Time To Beat (T2B) all 4 days and got their T2B title on the first day of the trial.  They also double qualified 3 days out of 4.  Hardee still loves to run agility, and I think it keeps him going.

Only 5 days until Hardee's 7th birthday.  Keep you fingers and paws crossed that we make it until then.  As always, it is all about joy and all about Hardee.