funny you should ask, i just got off the phone with the nurse.  I have been feeding him chunks of raw meat (and kibble, some liver and sometimes a fresh pet cat food liver/chicken) like mentioned before and he seemed to be eating it and things were ok til last night.   (I DID put a little canned beef gravy, really just about two tablespoons, in his dinner to stick the kibble to the meat so he couldn't pick and choose)   He seemed a little limpy after playing at the park (and trying to hump poor Ruthie) so for the first time I gave him a gabapentin at around 10 PM.  Now the only things I'm giving him now is a prilosec in the morning and a dasuquin in the afternoon (he is down to one for maintenance)..no supplements no nothing else.

This morning I get up to a pile of barf in the hall, some undigested chunks and I don't know if it was when I gave him the gabapentin because I had done smaller chunks with that and these were more dinner sized….at the risk of making everyone nauseaous, I did poke through to make sure there was not an undigested anything there and didn't find anything. 

I gave him a few slightly nuked this time pieces of tri tip with the prilosec and as I am using the spot cleaner on the FIRST spot, he upchucks again in the hall (this was about an hour after the pill or maybe a little more) (forgive me for wishing he would just go about  six Magic-sized steps to the lino in the kitchen)

I have now given him the half of cerenia.  He is still pooping mainly liquid, he has never really solidified since surgery…sometimes there is a little kinda formed stool but mainly a puddle.  It is always a toss up between black and brown and we are mainly seeing brown now (I stopped all anti inflamatories a few days back..would have to look at his med calendar) but still mainly puddles.

I don't know what is causing this but I am having a hard enough time getting food down, although he is pretty willing to eat the meat, and if it is going to come up again…I am considering not taking him anywhere to play today, but hate doing that too because it is supposed to start raining for a change on tuesday and looks like pretty much of a wet week ahead.

I am really starting to wonder if we have something going on in places other than bones and lungs…I don't think he has picked up a foxtail and I don't see a lot of gaggy chokey (no blood since the one I posted).  There was a MINUTE piece of little teeny (and I do mean teeny) bloody mucous that could have even been meat … it was hard to tell.

Since I have not give him gabapentin before, I don't know if that would have upset his tummy?  I am now wondering if I should ask for xrays of things other than chest on Thursday….just to see if there is something else there ….  ideas?

now aren't you sorry you asked?

i Actually have printed out a post with suggestions from Miss Cherry's dad.  I realize it sounds like a lot of different stuff, but most of it has been kinda of consistent..when he would eat...the liver, the fresh pet chicken and liver and the evo kibble.  I was doing ham lunch meat with the supplements, folding them in it, but he now is suspicious of that.  The raw meat I just started last week to see if I could get him to start eating after the chemo (he just stopped for a couple of days).  Scrambled eggs, kibble and liver was what he ate almost every night until that last chemo run and that went off the list.  The fresh pet dog food doesn't seem to appeal to him at all, either the big tubes or the containers....

I was giving him the flagyl at night until the chemo and his unwillingness and suspicion of everything that looked like it MIGHT have a pill in it.  I thought about trying an imodium, but havent yet....it is a challenge to get it off the grass, but at least it is brown and sometimes look like it might be getting solid.  I think you might be right tho about the variety especially this last week now that I really think about it.  Unfortunately, chicken of any kind seems to be the culprit in the drive you out of the room toxic gas cloud....whether kibble or   cooked or raw.  And I do  rotate the kibble but it is all the evo...chicken, red meat and   just opened the salmon one...I may toss the chicken.  I don't even know if the stuff gets stale...I may have to go to Miss Cherry's dad's suggestion with the  test tube wash bottle (where do i get one of those??? medical supply??) to get some ensure or something down him if this continues. 

I am picking up a script for more cerenia and we will see if that helps him keep stuff down.

if it isn't one thing it is six others....what a week THIS has been to forget.  (except for meeting Ruthie at the park!!)

Oh thanks much Bob....I really appreciate your imput...I will have to see if we have a place like that on Monday.....I do have the syringe that I used for OJ and about a million other sizes and shapes of syringes (I am starting my own medical supply)

He just plain feels like crap today I think...no appetite at all and lots of lip licking...didn't want the scrambled eggs/liver that is usually a hit...called the vet and they said go ahead and give him a pepcid and see if that settles his tummy...he seems more comfy (I stuffed it in a piece of chicken skin but unlike his usual gulping behavior he was CHEWING every piece...I rushed him through the one with the pill)...he had been outside and has now come in and is laying asleep behind me in the den.  I am going to do cerenia daily for awhile and see if we can get back on track.  Did you use regular ensure or pet ensure?  I am picking up the cerenia at the vet since we are almost out and  I will certainly look for the treats!  He does eat a treat usually when offered...the venison or chicken things from the vet....I am sure they must have those biscuits....

I will have to start a Bob file for the info you have provided me!!

he is drinking lots of water....I'm keeping an eye on that...it was almost like he felt better drinking little bits of water at a time, then go lay down then drink a little more.  Tonight Pam talked about carafate for coating the tummy, I will be talking to the vet tomorrow.....I just wish I had a reason for this....I understood it a week ago, but we finished the temador last sat.

THink I'll go to bed and quit obsessing about it...I just really wish he would go four more steps into the kitchen before losing his tummy!!!  Course there isn't much in his stomach now so maybe we'll be okay tonight!!