Tale of the Tail

On Monday night we came home from work, the gym, and grocery shopping. Noah (our 115 lb Golden Retriever) greeted us at the door, all wags and ran outside, slipping on the snow covered ground. How cute right? As it turns out, not cute at all. You see I started making some nice Turkey burgers with hummus and cranberry sauce (a fav at our local fag locale)...Kevin comes in and says to me " I think Noah had a stroke" "why do you think that kevin?"
Well as I watched Noah and saw the way he was moving it became clear. You see it wasn't the snow that he was slipping and slidding on outside. It was the fact that he basically had lost the capacity to use the right side of his body. I will never forget the sound of his poor legs draggin on the floor as he tried to greet us and give us love and wags.
The strangest thing is the way he just walks in circles. the same circle, without clear understanding that he is doing it. He just keeps going in the same circle.
Anyway, after much time spent at the vet yesterday and a referral to a specialist for doggies with neurological problems, this is what we found out. The vet said Noah had an infarction, either primary or secondary. He seems to think that the infarction is primary, which is good news, because if it were secondary it would mean that a tumor was the primary problem. So with the infarction being primary we should see Noah gain control of his body slowly over the next couple weeks, without incident again. So anyway keep your hooves crossed and pray to whatever you can to send the beast your love.