Still Smiling

While I was out of town this week, Scott reported that Presley threw up all over the living room and bedroom on Wednesday night. The vomit was mostly liquid and smelled like a pot roast gone bad. It took him several types of carpet cleaner and odor neutralizers to finally get rid of the smell. I came home on Saturday and thankfully couldn't smell anything.

Presley has been in a little more pain recently, so we've increased her pain meds. She especially has trouble laying down and getting up. She won't sit anymore and when she stands, she tries to take her weight off of her left rear leg. So she's balancing on her two right legs.

The amazing part is that she is still smiling and still wants to play. In fact, she's looking at me right now with her big Rottweiler smile. And last night we played fetch with a new toy from Aunt Stephanie. She outran her sisters several times to get to the toy first.

We really appreciate everyone's phone calls and emails. I have been passing along all of your well wishes to Presley Bear. It's amazing how many lives she has touched in her 10 short years here on Earth.

Today while I was blow drying my hair, this picture of Presley kept falling off the shelf. It's a picture of her when she was just a few months old laying at the top of the steps. She was really afraid of going down those steps at first. Yet she would sit at the top of the landing and push her toy down the steps, then whine because she wanted me to go get it for her. She has always been very smart and very cute.

She only weighed 5 pounds when we first brought her home. She nows weighs 74.6 pounds. At one point when she was about 3 or 4, she had been overweight and weighed over 100 pounds.

Bristol weighs 76.6. We're not sure what Diesel weighs, but I think Presley is now the lightest of the three girls. Presley seems really skinny, especially in her waist. I've tried at times to give her a little more food, but sometimes she leaves some of it in her bowl.

This whole situation is so unfair. All I keep saying to Presley is, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that she's had to go through all of this pain. But through it all, she is still smiling.