Great Story! Thank you Ian for sharing what has to be a very difficult time for you and your entire family. 

Been there... many a time. One stint one of ours did nine days on IV at vet only to be sent home with words of encouragement that hopefully the guy would start eating once he was in familiar surroundings. And still it took three more days before we saw him begin to claw his way back. Went in to the vets at 12 pounds, came home at 6, and is now, a few years later, a blow my mind everyday 15 pounds and as happy a guy as can be.

The food, the medicine, is all well and good, and I thank our vet as if she is a saint at every opportunity for saving his life. But I believe, and suspect you know, it is our love that sustains them more than anything. And, it is their love, and our exchange with them, that is miraculous, that makes for moments when we believe we see, can feel, are a part of, Heaven on Earth.

Bless you and yours Ian!