Today I took Aubie to the vet for some blood work to see how things are doing inside… Hopefully this was the last time. The vet thought he was doing well, so we decided to have the tube removed. I think the tube was bothering him a little, as he wasn’t eating as much on his own, but as soon as we came back, he almost ran to the food bowl…

So, it was five weeks with the feeding tube, one week at the vet, three weeks of me feeding him 5-6 times per day (each feeding session took about an hour), and then last week I was just feeding him a couple of times, so he’d start eating on his own.

The total bill is up to $3.5K now. I get the blood result in a couple of days, and hopefully we won’t have any more surprises… because I’m going broke! I was so not prepared for this.