What a year it has been.. Not an easy one for sure... in 2014 we started construction on a house.. We found out our doggie Bonzai had cancer Nov 2014. Amputation was January 2015.... Which the amputation was during a monsoon.. So for a week we were carrying him outside with a towel under his belly in 4 inches of water and pouring rain.. Along with the amputation and cancer of Bonz.. My wife's mother was also battling lung cancer that had moved to her brain.. And a series of strokes that at the age of 54 left her mother in a care facility for the rest of her life.. Her mother was in Canada. My wife an only child.. So with a new house and moving and a three legged blind trooper already in his senior years.. I was alone. My wife has been in Canada now for pretty much 18 months straight. She is now working there as we have been decimated as she had to quit her job here in the US last  year to take care of her mother. She flew down for a week for Bonz's surgery.  Thank god cause I would of never of made it. She flew down to help with the move as well.

Things have been busy and frustrating. I stopped blogging. I stopped living. We have 4 rescues. One has to be segregated because she is agressive and attacks the others. We cannot even think of getting rid of her as she is our last hope of a home but it is tough. I get home from work at about 6.. then the harnessing and carrying of Bonz outside and the feeding and segregation and separate walks.. Bonz does not get much walks. He gets plenty of time outside but he can't go far at all without faltering now.. In the evenings after he eats I usually carry him in to get a drink of water. He can walk and relieve himself and eat and he seems OK. I just feel he gets exhausted moving around.

So since money is tight and I do not blog I wanted to update on here.

Bonz is still good. Now 13 months past amputation his checkup is good. The Dr said he wanted to see him for xrays 6 months after surgery. We waited.. We figured if he was going to die and the cancer came back we were better off not knowing. After a year though it has not.. He still eats and is still healthy. I will be honest at the year checkup I think the surgeon was kinda amazed he was still alive lol.  He seemed shocked we brought him back. Like he was not expecting to see him anymore. 

At the beginning of this whole thing our decision to amputate was based on ... "well if he gets one more year.. that is like 7 dog years .. so if one of us could have surgery that extended our own lives 7 years we would do it right?" of course we would. so we did.. now 13 months past we still have bonz bonz.. Now we have some more stuff to deal with... His age is taking it's toll. We are dealing with senior dog issues now. He is slower.. grumpier... but he smiles in the yard and he eats like a horse (meatballs every night) .

I wish his mom could of spent this year with us. but he is not the only one that needs care and he understands.