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4 years ago
Hey y'all,
Thank you guys for your well wishes on my last journal regarding my dog who recently had a severe stroke.
I wanted to hop in and give you guys a little update.
In the past week he's improved drastically, much to our surprise.
He went from being unable to walk at all without leaning on a wall - to just being a bit wobbly and unable to use a hind leg - to being able to go on walks around the street with little assistance and eating full bowls of his normal food and even running in the backyard by himself sometimes- all in the course of a little over a week!
unfortunately he has lost his vision in his left eye, and will probably be unable to fully use his left hind leg for the rest of his life, but all in all he's adjusting marvelously
That said, we still don't know the underlying condition that caused his stroke in the first place. He's on anti seizure medication and a sort of steroid right now that should hopefully keep anything severe at bay, but there is still a great deal of unknowns right now.
Overall though, he is doing far better than we ever expected right now and that's all that matters.
As for myself, to be honest, I've been feeling pretty depressed lately in the wake of everything. The whole thing just stirred up all these negative emotions, stress and memories. last week being particularly bad (literally at work someone just asked me how my day was and I had a full-on breakdown, had a few more multiple times throughout the day lol this is fine everything is fine)
I think because I've been suppressing my emotions so much it's built up to a boiling point.
I'm happy to say I'm feeling a lot better today for the first time in what really seems like a long time.
Actually talking about your feelings does wonders, who would have guessed haha. And it's been surprisingly therapeutic to go out to the barn to hang out with my lesson horse more often in the past week, that's been my sole source of escape and stress relief honestly.
Sorry if these journals have sounded rambley - it's been nice being able to talk about this stuff more and type things out, it's helping me cope with things. I'm trying to keep the negative thoughts of the what-if's away best I can.
I've been feeling a lot more inspired, so I hope to get back on track with art really soon! I have a lot of character stuff/storylines I've been working on in my head and i'm excited to draw some concept stuff and get back to commissions soon
Thank you all for your patience, love you guys <3
Thank you guys for your well wishes on my last journal regarding my dog who recently had a severe stroke.
I wanted to hop in and give you guys a little update.
In the past week he's improved drastically, much to our surprise.
He went from being unable to walk at all without leaning on a wall - to just being a bit wobbly and unable to use a hind leg - to being able to go on walks around the street with little assistance and eating full bowls of his normal food and even running in the backyard by himself sometimes- all in the course of a little over a week!
unfortunately he has lost his vision in his left eye, and will probably be unable to fully use his left hind leg for the rest of his life, but all in all he's adjusting marvelously
That said, we still don't know the underlying condition that caused his stroke in the first place. He's on anti seizure medication and a sort of steroid right now that should hopefully keep anything severe at bay, but there is still a great deal of unknowns right now.
Overall though, he is doing far better than we ever expected right now and that's all that matters.
As for myself, to be honest, I've been feeling pretty depressed lately in the wake of everything. The whole thing just stirred up all these negative emotions, stress and memories. last week being particularly bad (literally at work someone just asked me how my day was and I had a full-on breakdown, had a few more multiple times throughout the day lol this is fine everything is fine)
I think because I've been suppressing my emotions so much it's built up to a boiling point.
I'm happy to say I'm feeling a lot better today for the first time in what really seems like a long time.
Actually talking about your feelings does wonders, who would have guessed haha. And it's been surprisingly therapeutic to go out to the barn to hang out with my lesson horse more often in the past week, that's been my sole source of escape and stress relief honestly.
Sorry if these journals have sounded rambley - it's been nice being able to talk about this stuff more and type things out, it's helping me cope with things. I'm trying to keep the negative thoughts of the what-if's away best I can.
I've been feeling a lot more inspired, so I hope to get back on track with art really soon! I have a lot of character stuff/storylines I've been working on in my head and i'm excited to draw some concept stuff and get back to commissions soon
Thank you all for your patience, love you guys <3
and I really hope he'll keep on improving and stay happy!
I'm sorry to hear about all you've to go through and all v.v but I'm glad you've gone upwards as well and felt better! and know that I'm here for you if you wants someone to talk to! <3
Talking about things like this can definitely help, so ramble away all you like! :D