Post by dmbenson on May 11, 2013 19:44:21 GMT -5
I'm here because other than my DH (bless his soul) and my sister, I figure y'all are the only people who will understand why I just spent $821.00 (that we don't really have ) on an 11 ish year old dog - and I'll be eating spaghetti for the rest of the month. Bullet (we didn't name her ) came into our family when we moved to Kentucky - my sister and her husband actually flew her out to us since she and their other dog had begun having serious - blood and guts - never in the same room together - major vet bills - fights. She's built like a tank, eats like a garbage disposal, helps herself to anything edible on the counters, and has spots like an appaloosa all over from nose to tail.
Monday night she threw up her dinner...plus, Tuesday morning she was extremely lethargic and refused food - so I took her to the vet. $237 later we walked out with 2 xrays 2 shots and two sets of pills. We got home and she stopped drinking - became even more lethargic over the course of Wednesday. Thursdays we were sitting in the vet's driveway waiting for them to show up. Head vet (I adore that man) took her temp, listened to our story, read her 'chart', snatched her up and took her into the back to start her on IV fluids.
She spent two days there - 1st day's blood work was truly frightening - liver and kidney 'thingies' (my technical term for whatever they were) were 4-5 times higher than they should have been. Dr. is not total gloom and doom, but not precisely encouraging either. DH is in tears - I'm hanging in by a thread. By Friday, they'd pushed 4 bottles of fluids into her and redone blood work - which was now just a hair above normal. I was literally shaking when I made the call to find out how the second set of tests had come out, I was so scared I was going to be facing 'That' decision. She stayed one more night to get some more fluids into her, and to get her eating again, and I picked her up this morning.
The old girl isn't completely out of the woods yet, but she's much better - the really scary part though, is that none of us (we or the vets) have any idea what caused it, so of course we don't have any idea how to prevent it either.
Monday night she threw up her dinner...plus, Tuesday morning she was extremely lethargic and refused food - so I took her to the vet. $237 later we walked out with 2 xrays 2 shots and two sets of pills. We got home and she stopped drinking - became even more lethargic over the course of Wednesday. Thursdays we were sitting in the vet's driveway waiting for them to show up. Head vet (I adore that man) took her temp, listened to our story, read her 'chart', snatched her up and took her into the back to start her on IV fluids.
She spent two days there - 1st day's blood work was truly frightening - liver and kidney 'thingies' (my technical term for whatever they were) were 4-5 times higher than they should have been. Dr. is not total gloom and doom, but not precisely encouraging either. DH is in tears - I'm hanging in by a thread. By Friday, they'd pushed 4 bottles of fluids into her and redone blood work - which was now just a hair above normal. I was literally shaking when I made the call to find out how the second set of tests had come out, I was so scared I was going to be facing 'That' decision. She stayed one more night to get some more fluids into her, and to get her eating again, and I picked her up this morning.
The old girl isn't completely out of the woods yet, but she's much better - the really scary part though, is that none of us (we or the vets) have any idea what caused it, so of course we don't have any idea how to prevent it either.