{"id":7994,"date":"2016-02-02T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:15:03","slug":"heaven-can-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/heaven-can-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven can wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7995\" src=\"http:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Oscarwoods-bw.jpg\" alt=\"Oscarwoods-bw\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Oscarwoods-bw.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Oscarwoods-bw-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">They said he was going to die. Two vets agreed that the reason old Oscar&#8217;s legs had stopped working was that his little heart could no longer pump enough blood to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">It seemed odd then that his feet were still warm so a trip to another vet and it was suggested that he might have coonhound paralysis. A condition where dogs become paralyzed but only for a couple of months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">That was Late October 2014 and sure enough, after two months of treating him as a baby, walking him in a pram and exercising his legs for him on a daily basis he began walking just before Christmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The vet then suggested that having come through the paralysis that it had taken a toll on his body and that he would likely not last more than a week or two.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">But as of July 2015 he is now 13 and still with us and as active (well almost for an old boy) as ever and twice as bossy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">I think Oscar&#8217;s plan is to live forever. So far so good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; They said he was going to die. Two vets agreed that the reason old Oscar&#8217;s legs had stopped working was that his little heart could no longer pump enough blood to them.\u00a0 &nbsp; It seemed odd then that his feet were still warm so a trip to another vet and it was suggested that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[43,42],"class_list":["post-7994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-portrait-geelong","tag-coonhound-paralysis","tag-photography-par-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}