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It’s 2010 and I’m still here…blind as a bat, yet feisty as ever! I guess this is a good time to let everybody know what has been happening in my life. There has been some speculation on my Facebook Chi WOW WOW Fan Page and I owe it to my friends to set things straight. So here goes…

No one except me knows my real age so let’s just say I’m no spring chicken but I have lived several lives, one hard one and the current one, blissful. “My Lady” rescued me from a rescue when I was totally down on my luck and 24 hours from being put to death. I pulled all the stops that day and it worked, she “My Lady” as I refer to her, walked through the PetSmart door, took exactly 6 steps (yes, I counted), looked down at me, and it was all over, LOVE at first sight. TRUE LASTING LOVE I will tell you DOES exist and we are proof of that. In fact, many of you know that, having similar stories like ours.

It has been 7 years but seems like a lifetime that we have been together. I wasn’t supposed to live to see the new year and “My Lady” got this crazy idea that she would rent an RV and drive to Texas so we could all be together for my last hurrah! You see, it was in June that I suddenly lost my eyesight, I mean…I went outside to go to the bathroom and on the way back in, I couldn’t see jack. I saw several Doctors, one being a Veterinary Retinologist, nice lady who was smitten with me, I might add. She concluded that I had an unexplained immune mediated response where my own body’s defense system attacked the retinas of my eyes, and they detached. I didn’t regain my sight even after a course of high dose steroids. So no biggy…all seemed A-ok until several months later I had a pretty bad seizure, one lasting over an hour in the middle of the night. By morning “My Lady” and I were exhausted and she was dreading going to the Vet. Our Vet, “Vandy” as I refer to him, delivered some pretty bad news. “My Lady” knew in her heart before he said it…”I’m afraid, ELVIS has a brain tumor.” I heard her ask the dreaded questions, “will he be in pain?” and “how long will he live?” and “isn’t there anything we can do?” and…and…and…………

And so…I’m on a whooping dose of phenobarbitol twice daily and other than it makes me a little loopy, it keeps my seizures under control. We are almost to the maximum allowable dose and Vandy says there is one more drug we can add when we get to the limit but here I am, sleeping peacefully and happily by “My Lady’s” side in an RV park, somewhere in Malibu, listening to the rain and the waves pounding on the beach…defying the odds.

Maybe it’s the constant stream of love from everyone that knows me, the positive vibes, the well wishes, the RV, the trip to Texas, naps in the sunshine…

or…

Maybe the Universe still needs something from me??? I don’t have the answer, but it’s 2010 and I still here, so…

Thank you everyone!
Thank you world!
Peace to all my four legged friends!

- ELVIS