My unvaxxed cousin is infected but still going out and about
She's 39, morbidly obese, with various health issues that have her on partial disability, but still unvaxxed. She also has two children who likely brought it home. She also lives with her mom, who's also morbidly obese, almost 60, and mostly homebound. I don't know my aunt's vaccination status, but I pray she's vaccinated. Most of my redneck Trumper family aren't though.
She's spent the past 5 days on Facebook bitching about how horrible she feels after her COVID diagnosis.
Tonight she posted how she really wanted to be home in bed but had to take her cat to the vet for her spay appointment. I called her out on how irresponsible she was for going out while contagious, potentially exposing other people.
I'm now unfriended. Good. People like her are why 750,000 Americans are dead. And that's exactly what I'm going to tell her if I ever see her face to face again.
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I hope that your dog is doing much better now! I'm very fortunate, my dog may be 15, but his reason for visiting the vet has been for a recurring ear infection which did not require a stay. 
I don't know if this is a helpful suggestion, but when my beloved cocker spaniel got older (he was at least 18, I originally adopted him from rescue), he had trouble walking and I had to carry him in and out. What helped my Barney was acupuncture. I'd had it myself so I knew it wasn't uncomfortable and it was non-invasive. It was offered at the vet office where I'd taken my cat, so I checked into it. And I met another dog there, a Golden Retriever, who was paralyzed and whose owners carried her in on a stretcher. They said she was getting better and when I met her, she wagged her tail at me.
So I started bringing Barney in every other week - and other than the car ride, he didn't mind. And it really did help. He was able to walk in and out by himself for the rest of his life. I know you have your treatment plan, but I wanted to share my experience. Your sweet dog is so very fortunate to have you, I hope so much that he continues to get better...
In the beginning of the pandemic, I sat in my car in the parking lot, waiting to hear from the vet who was treating my dog, through an entire thunderstorm. But I'm grateful that they're taking every precaution. 
A vet tech who worked there was helping to foster my dog who was originally a "pet shop rescue." And since they already knew him, I continued going there even though it's a much longer trip for me now. And they were the ones who took the dog and had me wait in my car at the beginning of the pandemic - and though owners are allowed in the building now, we're not allowed in exam rooms, a masked vet tech comes out to take the pet, and everyone is masked and maintains distancing. I'm in New York, if that makes a difference. 
Sometimes they ask you to wait. There are benches inside where we're allowed to wait now, but we're still not allowed to accompany pets in exam rooms like it was before the pandemic. A masked vet tech comes out and takes the pet and a masked vet comes out to speak to owners now.
My local vet once sent me to another vet for a second opinion for my beloved cat. I liked her a lot, but her specialty was birds - and we often saw birds in the waiting room. And I still remember the vet's license plate - it said BIRDDR. 
Good luck with your special bird, she sounds like one very special pet...
just normal shit there 
following certification of the election.
Good luck my friend!
