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Hey everyone,
I am going to need some major vibes. Abby was doing fine after all she went through last month with the exploratory surgery and all. We had found out the cause of her problem - gastric spiral bacteria - and had her on antibiotics and she was doing perfectly. But she had her last day of antibiotics on Thursday and took a turn for the worse yesterday. She started vomiting continually yesterday and by today, she was panting with her mouth open and couldn't even get up or walk. We took her up to the emergency animal hospital in the city about an hour from here where she is still at right now and will be for 4 or 5 days, if she makes it. They said she's in very critical condition right now.
Her body temperature was very low and even with the heating packs around her, her temperature kept dropping while we were there. If they can get that to go up, then they need to do a blood transfusion because her red blood cell count is very low for some reason. If she makes it through that, then they need to call in a surgeon to do surgery again either tonight or tomorrow because her small intestines are enlarged and the x-rays showed that there is something inside of her that shouldn't be there. So they'll need to go in and find out what it is.
This is all very sudden and came out of no where. We don't know anything right now, really. She had been doing really well up until now. So we're just sitting and waiting to hear what's going on. I don't know if we're doing the right thing or not. The vet thinks that she'll be fine if they can get her temp up and get enough blood in her system to withstand another surgery to find out the source of the problem and fix it. But if she doesn't make it, then we've put her through all of this for nothing. I don't know.
But anyway, I don't really know how to deal with this right now so I decided the best thing for me to do would be to get on here and let you all know what's going on. Hopefully it'll turn out ok. I don't have a good feeling about it though. I'll keep you all posted on what happens. And thanks to everyone on here, especially whoever created this site, because it has been a blessing through everything I've been going through with my Abby over the past few months.
I am going to need some major vibes. Abby was doing fine after all she went through last month with the exploratory surgery and all. We had found out the cause of her problem - gastric spiral bacteria - and had her on antibiotics and she was doing perfectly. But she had her last day of antibiotics on Thursday and took a turn for the worse yesterday. She started vomiting continually yesterday and by today, she was panting with her mouth open and couldn't even get up or walk. We took her up to the emergency animal hospital in the city about an hour from here where she is still at right now and will be for 4 or 5 days, if she makes it. They said she's in very critical condition right now.
Her body temperature was very low and even with the heating packs around her, her temperature kept dropping while we were there. If they can get that to go up, then they need to do a blood transfusion because her red blood cell count is very low for some reason. If she makes it through that, then they need to call in a surgeon to do surgery again either tonight or tomorrow because her small intestines are enlarged and the x-rays showed that there is something inside of her that shouldn't be there. So they'll need to go in and find out what it is.
This is all very sudden and came out of no where. We don't know anything right now, really. She had been doing really well up until now. So we're just sitting and waiting to hear what's going on. I don't know if we're doing the right thing or not. The vet thinks that she'll be fine if they can get her temp up and get enough blood in her system to withstand another surgery to find out the source of the problem and fix it. But if she doesn't make it, then we've put her through all of this for nothing. I don't know.
But anyway, I don't really know how to deal with this right now so I decided the best thing for me to do would be to get on here and let you all know what's going on. Hopefully it'll turn out ok. I don't have a good feeling about it though. I'll keep you all posted on what happens. And thanks to everyone on here, especially whoever created this site, because it has been a blessing through everything I've been going through with my Abby over the past few months.
