Long few Days

So, late Saturday/Early Sunday, Dojo started having about of his HGE and I went through Hell trying to get him treated. (You can read about in my last blog post HERE.)

So when I finally think I have everything settled, it turned out it wasn't settled. Dojo vomited again yesterday afternoon and was acting really sick. Since doctor "human being" was on call still (again,m read the previous blog), my mom and I took a 3 hr drive to a 24 hr vet e.r. where we found his Hematocrits had not gone down. They hadn't gone up... but they were about the same as last time. So the vet gave him more fluids, a nausea medication and pain meds for discomfort.

He slept really good that night at the hotel, best night sleep he had in a long time. Drove home this morning, and took him to his vet this afternoon to do a recheck. His Hematocrits STILL haven't gone down. in fact, it was a point higher give or take... but the weird thing is, his proteins did go down. The vet thinks the proteins went down because he has so much fluids in his system... but she wasn't sure why the Hematocrits didn't go down as the fluids always work.

So I packed a suitcase and drove 6hrs to Milwaukee, where I am now. (feels like my mom and I have been on the road for 24hrs. First we drove around from 3 to 5am trying to get a vet to help him Sunday morning, then we drove to the ER 3 hrs away that afternoon,  drove 3 hrs back this morning, and immediately headed to Milwaukee this afternoon. Been up all Saturday, Sunday and now Monday with him.) I'm physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted.

Tomorrow, he is going to see his old vet who he use to have before we moved. And there is a 24hr clinic nearby if necessary. His vet at home thinks he'll probably need to be on an IV drip because flooding him sub-q isn't working. Hopefully we'll get this under control and maybe find out what caused it to act out in this manner so that the sub-q fluids didn't work.

One good sign is he is ravenous. When I was feeding Yoshi he was crying for some. So I called the E.R. vet and he said if it's been over 8hrs since he last vomited, he should have a small amount of food introduced. So I went to Walmart and bought him puppy food which I figured would be easy on this tummy, and he accepted it. Its a single serving container and I fed him less than half of a single serving as to not tax his tummy. I want to see if he can hold it down. 1 hr in and so far so good.

He really should be on a bland diet, so I'm not going to feed him any more till after he's done with the vet tomorrow. While he's at the vet, I'm going to go to my brother's house and boil some extra lean hamburger in rice water and when he gets home from the vet I'll feed him a small amount. If he can hold it down I'll feed him a little more later that night.

So this has been a really trying week. And I still blame psycho on call vet. If she had not been a *#@!& and treated him from the get-go instead of making him wait nearly 2 hrs to be treated (by a vet who wasn't even the one on call)... he probably wouldn't have gotten as bad as he did. Maybe he would have, but since she was a *#@!& and didn't do what she should have done as a professional, no way to prove it wasn't her fault.

anyway, I'm rambling. Sorry. Just under a lot of stress. My puppies are my babies. I want them both to be happy and healthy. It just breaks my heart when they get sick. It's a helpless feeling when you don't know what causes HGE to rear it's ugly head, so you can't prevent it. Anyway. I'm going to say a few prayers that they get him on the right road tomorrow.