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A lot of you have been emailing me and asking how the fur kids are feeling. Here's my report. Please forgive me if there are typos or things don't always make sense, I'm suffering from sleep deprivation. Why do kids and dogs  seem to get sick on weekends and holidays and always at night?

Here's the rundown. Sky and Bailey were back to normal in about 24 hours. Yeah! Morgan was better in about 48 hours, double yeah! Fudge was sick for about a week, but he's feeling fine now and I'll start switching him back to his regular food today.

On Wednesday I though Sebastian might be getting sick because he refused his breakfast. Then I thought it was because there were storms north of us, but the vet said that he probably did catch it and because he's young and healthy, he just shook it off fast. He's feeling great now.

That leaves Samba. We managed to stop the vomiting. We haven't been able to get the diarrhea under control. She's dropped from 44 pounds two weeks ago, to 38 pounds this morning. We took her back to the clinic early this morning. I was dreading what I was going to hear.

Samba is enrolled in the Georgie Project research program so last night I printed out the autopsy protocol to give to Dr B. When I mentioned it, he said we aren't ready to discuss it and that he has some more tricks up his sleeve.

Because of Samba's long term steroid use for her MMM, her immune system is greatly compromised. The fact that the other dogs became sick is actually a good thing because it tells us that she probably has the same infection but her system is having a harder time fighting it off. Before the others got sick we were looking at a liver problem, but now we're changing our direction a little.

These are Samba's medicines. Poor girl! She's very good about taking them and I only hope they can stop the diarrhea so she can start gaining some weight back. Sometimes she's interested in eating and other times she just walks away from her bowl. Last night she refused to eat, even when I tried spoon feeding her. This morning I fixed her a breakfast of baked potato and broiled chicken. That went over well and it was good to see her clean her bowl. Dr B and I discussed her diet and I'm making a stew of turkey, rice and sweet potato for her dinner.

I have promised her to do everything I can to make her feel better and she has promised to try to eat and to work at getting better. We're both counting on the Power Of The Paw to keep doing it's good work.