<p>Between Patch and Barbaro, I’m a weepy mess this evening – all good thoughts headed your way.</p>
<p>Adding my thoughts and prayers to you and your family and of course, for Patch.</p>
<p>Take care and {{{{{{{{hugs!}}}}}}}</p>
<p>Berurah …
Big hugs coming from Connecticut … it is so hard on all of us when our animals are hurt. </p>
<p>Please keep us updated.</p>
<p>Connie – and the dogs, horses, parrots plus all the pet shop residents!</p>
<p>I have asked our Megan, who is in Doggie Heaven, to be Patch’s Guardian Angel. Keep the faith, berurah and kiddos.</p>
<p>What a horrible thing to happen to a sweet dog. 
Well wishes and prayers from NC.</p>
<p>Vets and their staffs do amazing things to heal our furry friends. Lots of wishes for a happy outcome for Patch.</p>
<p>Oh Berurah! Poor Patch!!! Poor you!! I feel so bad for you. Our dogs are the best, aren’t they? Hopefully he’ll rally. Good luck.</p>
<p>sigh…it is so hard when a pet is hurt, even a little, and when you see those sad eyes, wondering if we can fix them</p>
<p>I LOVE my Vet, and a few blocks from our house we have the night emergency room for pets</p>
<p>I can’t imagine drving away, makes me want to track that driver down…if he couldn’t help the accident, he should have stopped…and should have stopped anyway</p>
<p>once there was this kitten in the street, obviouslly had been hit, and people KEPT GOING!!! I stopped the car, took the kitten to the vet, she couldn’t be saved, but at least I knew she wasn’t suffering</p>
<p>another time a family of raccoons would not leave the middle of the street…turns out one baby/teen had been hit and the mother wouldn’t leave it…we were so afraid they would all get killed, another driver and I blocked traffic, put on the blinkers, lifted the poor animal. who died in my arms and we brought it to the sidewalk, and the family followed…the babies ran up a tree and mom just made the saddest sounds</p>
<p>we backed away, but stood street side, mom drug her dead child into the bushes into a park and the other babies scurried after her</p>
<p>it was the most heart wrenching thing, to see that mother not wanting to leave her child</p>
<p>people that hurt animals make me sooo angry</p>
<p>beruhah, many hugs and kisses…I am dreading the day all my dogs get old…it will be hard</p>
<p>Hi my friends~</p>
<p>Emotional mess that I am right now, each and every one of your posts brought tears. I can <em>feel</em> the loving and healing thoughts of all of you for our struggling canine “baby” and our family who loves Patch deeply… I thank you all SO very much! :)</p>
<p>Not much to the update this evening. Patch received the cortisone injection this a.m. and has now had two doses of the prescribed prednisone + his antibiotics and his pain medication. Right now, he is resting comfortably in our den, tucked in for the night. </p>
<p>It really tugs at my heart to see him so helpless. When he tries to get up, his hind legs simply cannot hold him and his little feet curl up, a sign that his legs are not receiving the proper brain signals. I’m hoping the treatment reduces any inflammation which may be causing this. When he was on the cortisone injections before, he responded very well. </p>
<p>It is <em>really</em> hard to watch an older dog suffer from these injuries. I so wish he could have lived out whatever years he had left in the good health that he has always enjoyed. <em>sigh</em> </p>
<p>I actually do not fault the driver for the initial accident. Somehow, Patch got out of our backyard when we had put him out briefly to go to the bathroom before bed. It was nighttime, snowy and icy, and Patch is mostly white (with some tan areas, like the little patch on his eye that inspired his name to my kids who were very young when we got him! 
). But the driver KNEW he had hit SOMETHING as he continued down the road for 6-7 houses, and THEN REVERSED to get Patch out from under his truck!!! <em>THEN</em> he sped off. The thought of it makes me literally ill. :(</p>
<p>Luckily, as I said, the daughter of one of our neighbors was out and she quickly went to where Patch was and got him out of the street and used her cell phone to call her mom who lives diagonally from us. They came to let us know what had happened. If not for them, I don’t know what might have happened to our dog as he would most likely have been left in the middle of a cold, snowy, icy street by that extremely cruel and thoughtless driver who hit him and then didn’t even bother to see if he was hurt (how could he NOT have been!!??).</p>
<p>I will update you all in the morning, hopefully with good news to share. Keep sending the good wishes…I truly believe they can make a difference!</p>
<p>Thank you all again, so very much, for your warm thoughts. They mean the world to us.</p>
<p>love, ~berurah and people family</p>
<p>love, ~Patch and his doggie (corgi mix) brother, Buddy–D’s bf’s dog whom we recently adopted–Patch’s sisters, black lab Diva, and beagle pup Shiloh, kitties Dory, Belle, and Princess Winnifred (Wee Wee), guineas Princess and Diablo Rojo, and family of fish!</p>
<p>Thanks for the update Berurah. I woke up wondering about him. My naughty little dog (the one who ate the ibuprofen over Christmas and landed in the dog hospital for 3 days) gets out of our fenced yard sometimes and it really worries me. OF COURSE I watch him - but no one else does. They “forget” sometimes. <em>sigh</em> Anyway, I’m sure you’ll take the best care of him that you can. The worst part is that they just don’t understand.</p>
<p>Sending lots of good thoughts to you, Patch and the whole family. I think this is one of the biggest fears of all pet owners. Keep the faith, I’m sure Patch is comfort by being surrounded by his loving family.</p>
<p>Oh no! I hope Patch will improve. Our German Shorthair Pointer was hit by a car a couple years ago. It’s amazing that he survived and we did not see the accident; we can only assume the driver tried to stop and “bumped” him (b/c he was hit on a 50mph road!). He fully recovered but it was scary for that night and the next morning…and I stayed up ALL NIGHT with him. He was having trouble breathing and sort of coughing up bloody mucous-y stuff :eek: , which the vet had warned us would happen. </p>
<p>It sounds like Patch’s accident was much worse than our Kramer’s and I don’t blame you for being upset. I’m so glad that your neighbor helped out!</p>
<p>Good wishes</p>
<p>Sorry to hear this news, B. Wishing the whole family all the best. I know Patches is feeling the love!</p>
<p>One of our cats had to be put down in October after surviving cancer for 4 or 5 years, including 3 years at my sister’s house while we were overseas. He’d only been back with us for about 2 months. My eldest S was visiting for a week, and Joe had been his cat. He made the decision, as Joe got weaker and weaker, and we went together to the vet. We stood in the lobby and bawled afterwards. It was a bummer of a way to end S’s visit, but I was glad that Joe held on till he got there. Joe’s brother Frank has had a tough adjustment without him, too. The cats (Siamese, litter mates) were/are 16 years old.</p>
<p>berurah - I’m sorry to hear about Patch and wish him and your family well. I gave my dog a little extra play time last night in honor of Patch.</p>
<p>{{{{{{{{HUGS!!!}}}}}}}} 
;)</p>
<p>For this, I will finally unlurk. Best of luck, my thoughts are certainly with you!</p>
<p>Tuition Dad~</p>
<p>Your “unlurking” for Patch means the world to me! THANK YOU! Welcome to CC—we’d all love to get to know you!</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>To EVERYONE~</p>
<p>OMG, your support is literally giving me goosebumps…and tears of joy. I’ll be updating you soon.</p>
<p>Miss Soozie…darling, you have totally outdone yourself! BEAUTIFUL!</p>
<p>love, ~b.</p>
<p>berurah-can only repeat the good wishes of all those above. Hope your pup is feeling better. We had a similar experience many moons ago with a then 12 yr old Golden and he pulled through. It takes some time and TLC so hang in there as I’m sure you are.</p>
<p>All the best…</p>
<p>B:
Hope Patch recovers quickly and you can breathe easier. We would be devastated if anything happened to our yellow lab, Roxy. I gave her some extra hugs after reading your post.</p>