Swayze Sue

BriAnna doesn't have a blog so I thought I would do this post with a short timeline of Swayze Sue's life up to this point. Swayze's story is a very unique one. We truly feel that it was not by accident that she was brought into our lives when she was. The day Bree and I randomly went and looked at a litter of boxer puppies was the day that Porter's headstone was placed. Bree wasn't up to doing anything after an emotional day like that one but without any questions asked got right in the truck with me and we drove all the way out to Phoenix somewhere past Castles and Coasters theme park (freakin far away!). When we got to this man's house we were talking about if we would really end up bringing a puppy home that night. As soon as we saw baby Swayz, Bree looked at me like a little kid on Christmas morning and asked me if she could bring her home to my house. Of course being the animal lover that I am I couldn't say no...but in the back of my mind was thinking to myself and wondering why this puppy looked so abnormally small...I've had a few dogs before and have seen a lot of puppies and for some reason she just looked too tiny. The man said she was the runt of the litter and had just stopped nursing from the mom a few days before. He told us she was 8 weeks old too which also concerned me. We took her home and that night she was just worn out and slept the whole night. The next night Bree noticed she was breathing faster than she thought was normal and that day when we were feeding dry puppy food she couldn't keep it down but when she would throw up it wasn't normal throw up but a clear fluid sac with her fully in tact dry puppy food. It was the weirdest thing. That night we ended up taking her to the animal ER since it was the weekend and no Vet's were open. They tried to tell us she had kennel cough...which we knew she didn't. To make a reeeaaalllly long story short after lots of vet visits and trips to the animal ER we found out by X-Ray's that Swayze had a condition called Mega-Esophogus. My family vet for years told us that in his 30 or so years of being a Vet he had only seen one other case of this condition and tried to uplift our spirits by letting us know that the other dog that had this same thing is still living today and is a normal dog other than she has to eat in an elevated position...so we to had to do the same feedings with Swayze and with a prescription soft canned food that BriAnna probably spent her life savings on since this is what Swayze had to eat for months to make sure she was getting proper nutrition since with an enlarged esophagus normal food was too big to fit down the constricted part of it and what ever food did go through would get stuck in a pouch in the dilated part. After 8 or so months of Swayze being the smart and patient dog that she is and learning to eat standing up and being burped like a baby after every meal she is now 1 years old and eating like a normal dog and completely healed from that rare condition that she had. Swayze Sue is a miracle dog and with BriAnna's dedicated prayers and everyone else's we are lucky to have this mini boxer weighing in at 30-40 pounds now and complete solid muscle. She has been Bree's best little buddy through so much already and we all love her soo much and can't imagine life without her.