He is home.
Everything is still quite scary, but we are gonna give it a shot.
My great fear at present is that he will swing to low-blood-sugar, which has the great danger of doing him in.
The big problem being that collectively we have not figured out a way for me to monitor his blood sugar at home. You are not extricating blood from his lip or ear and walking away with your hand intact...for example.
At the vets, the doc muzzles him, puts a towel over his head, has an assistant hold one of his (shaved) paws, and extracts the sample just like you would draw blood from a person. Once the muzzle goes on, you have a fight, and we are talking about a 140lb dog in a bad mood.
None of that can happen at home. I have no clue how to hit a vein on a moving target. I will continue to search the web for some solutions...(I am leaning towards modifying a muzzle to "get at" his lip.)
This is all probably in the category of "TMI", but the not knowing what his blood sugar is weighs on me at the level of units he is presently on. We are going back to the vet's Thursday for a test...THAT will be fun trying to get him into the car...The trip home last night was interrupted because he HAD to get up front---He is five feet long, do the math, lol He kept leaning on the shifter, and if I wasn't holding, it---He would pop us out of gear. I had to stop in a parking lot halfway home, (I thought it would be a good idea to actually GET home--traffic-accident-wise) and this caused much anxiety, whining, etc.... He wasn't home yet, and I suspect he thought he wasn't going home after all. He knew home when we finally got there, believe me!
That's my way too long version of saying we are hanging in there, and thanks for caring...