Oh, Diane...Do I understand how hard it is to watch their grief. I HOPE it isn't the same with Max, or that there isn't another issue lurking. In Bailey's grief, he just never got over losing Snickers. He moved very little and always sat next to his yellow mirror. As I had to free him recently due to health issues and to be with his bud, I have been doing my own grieving by reading on sites dealing with pet loss. Someone put it like this: Seeing their pets FADING, the SPARK SOFTENING. For me, that perfectly (albeit panfully) expresses what I watched for too many years. Keep us posted on that appointment, Diane!