[Magdalen] doggie prayers

[Christopher Hart]

Prayers that they can find the problem. It's so hard when our little
four-footed friends are sick and they can't tell us what happened.​

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Two of my other-kids, John and Melissa, and their boys Preston and Walker,
> have a Belgian Malinois pup about 9 months old of whom they are
> inordinately fond. Tuco (said pup's name) has been very sick for over a
> month now and is currently at the NC State Vet Hospital in Raleigh where
> they are trying to determine what is wrong with him. When he first got sick
> the local vet thought it was from chewing on some treated wood from a
> fence; he broke out with ulcers in his mouth and had bad GI symptoms. This
> time he broke out in the ulcers again, wouldn't eat, and was found to have
> ulcers throughout his GI system. At first they had thought it was because
> he'd eaten a tennis ball he found under the deck, but obviously not the
> case (no evidence of ball found internally on x-ray). Now in Raleigh, he's
> had surgery to put in a gastrostomy tube for feeding while the vets try to
> determine what is going on with him. So far their best guesses are either
> an auto-immune disorder or some kind of fungal infection, and Melissa says
> at this time they're leaning toward the latter but say they've never seen
> anything like it. Tuco is miserable and his family is distraught. Prayers
> for all are requested.
>



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Christopher Hart

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