Emergency

I was on the phone with the NZymes people. TJ was in our room asleep. All of a sudden he ran downstairs, and Dave started yelling, "Deb! I need your help!!" I figured TJ had diarrhea or something like that, but it turns out that he had scratched one of the spots on his neck, and he had blood all over. It looked as if someone had slit his throat. Neither of us is very experienced in first aid, and trying to keep a dog calm while we attempt to put some kind of gauze on it definitely didn't work. How do you wrap a dog's neck? Impossible. We couldn't figure out a way, but we had to put back on the cone, even though it might be painful for him. We put a triple antibiotic ointment on it as well.

The NZymes people said to cut back on one of the products that does most of the cleansing, and that if the lymph nodes don't go down in a day or two that we should take him to the vet. I sure wish Erin were home -- I don't like being responsible for these decisions, and we also don't want to give him any antibiotics if we can avoid it, since that's a huge contributor to the problem to begin with.

NZymes also recommended that we feed TJ yogurt with all of his medicines and a baby aspirin in it since he's not eating. He lapped that up pretty quickly, so I need to go buy more, as well as more Folex (an amazing carpet cleaner). Our room looked like a crime scene. I'm pretty distressed right now -- I can only imagine how TJ feels.