We could use some of those fantastic TCS vibes tonight if you guys can spare them please!
My sister's dog Bailey is recovering from a massive emergency surgery right now.
This morning my sister Kimmy called me from work and told me that when she woke up this morning to get her kids ready for school and take care of her animals, their dog Bailey had thrown up three times and upon closer inspection Kimmy saw that what she had vomited was pieces of the blanket from her kennel. She and her husband absolutely had to go to work so she asked me if I could go over to their house and check on Bailey. (I just live a few streets over from them.)
When I got to their house I checked on Bailey and she was just not herself at all. Normally Bailey is estatic to see me and covers me in kisses every time I'm there. This time when I went to her kennel to let her out she didn't even want to get out of her kennel or move. She whined horribly when I examined her stomach and just looked miserable.
I called my sister back and told her that she absolutely had to go to the vets office for x-rays because I was almost certain she had a blockage (I used to work as a vet tech.) I told my DH what was going on and he told me to go ahead and take her and we would pay for the bill and let them pay us back. (they're good for it, they just don't have a lump sum right now). When I got her to the vet they did two x-rays and the physical and she had a massive blockage as suspected.
One very useful thing my sister did this morning was set the blanket and the scraps Bailey left out for me to look at. I took it with me to the vets office and the vet and I tried to piece back the blanket....when we did we saw there was a massive chunk missing (more than she could have vomited back up). I spent several hours at the vets office while they did tests/etc on little Bailey (actually my whole day almost). As soon as my sister got off work she ran over there to talk with the vet and see Bailey. After talking with the vet we decided that we wanted to go ahead with surgery to remove the blockages and try to save her life. Without it there's no way she would have survived- she had horrid blockages all in her little GI track.
The vet cancelled all of her afternoon appointments and immediately took Bailey back once we decided to do the surgery. She worked on her from around 4:00 almost 7:30. Bailey had tiny pieces of the blanket all throughout her system. They had to do a lot of work on her intestines as well so now they're worried about an increased risk for infection.They said that she did as well as could be expected for that kind of major surgery. She also didn't loose too much blood eithor, so that's good. They put her on some good antibiotics and lots of pain killers. She may get to come home tomorrow depending on how she does- if she does ok we'll go ahead and bring her back to my sister's house for the weekend then mine during the week so I can watch her while they work (the vet isn't 24 hours and doesn't have staff on Sundays so that's why)
They told us the recovery for the surgery should take about 8 weeks our so for her to be fully healed internally....she will now have to stay on a soft diet for an indefinite amount of time as well with special food so she can digest it ok. Please pray for Bailey to make a full recovery without any nasty infections from this. We all love and adore this dog to pieces- she is soo sweet. I am hoping she makes a smooth recover without any complications.
Bailey is really my 13yr old niece's dog- and that pup is her baby- she sleeps in her room at night and is always by her side. We had to tell her what happened to her girl tonight after she got home from school, so she was defiitely upset. I'm just glad we were able to get her surgery done though. The vet said the extent of the material she swallowed would have been fatal without surgery. I am just glad we were able to get her operated on in time. I will update tomorrow as soon as we get back from the vets office (hopefully with her in tow!)
This is one of the only pictures I have of Bailey at the moment, but I thought i'd share it with everyone. (She's a little lab/rat terrrier x) (The picture is from Easter a few yrs ago...Colin was helping my niece Kaitlynn hunt for Easter eggs. The little dog in the background is their Chinese Crested, Mac).
My sister's dog Bailey is recovering from a massive emergency surgery right now.
This morning my sister Kimmy called me from work and told me that when she woke up this morning to get her kids ready for school and take care of her animals, their dog Bailey had thrown up three times and upon closer inspection Kimmy saw that what she had vomited was pieces of the blanket from her kennel. She and her husband absolutely had to go to work so she asked me if I could go over to their house and check on Bailey. (I just live a few streets over from them.)
When I got to their house I checked on Bailey and she was just not herself at all. Normally Bailey is estatic to see me and covers me in kisses every time I'm there. This time when I went to her kennel to let her out she didn't even want to get out of her kennel or move. She whined horribly when I examined her stomach and just looked miserable.
I called my sister back and told her that she absolutely had to go to the vets office for x-rays because I was almost certain she had a blockage (I used to work as a vet tech.) I told my DH what was going on and he told me to go ahead and take her and we would pay for the bill and let them pay us back. (they're good for it, they just don't have a lump sum right now). When I got her to the vet they did two x-rays and the physical and she had a massive blockage as suspected.
One very useful thing my sister did this morning was set the blanket and the scraps Bailey left out for me to look at. I took it with me to the vets office and the vet and I tried to piece back the blanket....when we did we saw there was a massive chunk missing (more than she could have vomited back up). I spent several hours at the vets office while they did tests/etc on little Bailey (actually my whole day almost). As soon as my sister got off work she ran over there to talk with the vet and see Bailey. After talking with the vet we decided that we wanted to go ahead with surgery to remove the blockages and try to save her life. Without it there's no way she would have survived- she had horrid blockages all in her little GI track.
The vet cancelled all of her afternoon appointments and immediately took Bailey back once we decided to do the surgery. She worked on her from around 4:00 almost 7:30. Bailey had tiny pieces of the blanket all throughout her system. They had to do a lot of work on her intestines as well so now they're worried about an increased risk for infection.They said that she did as well as could be expected for that kind of major surgery. She also didn't loose too much blood eithor, so that's good. They put her on some good antibiotics and lots of pain killers. She may get to come home tomorrow depending on how she does- if she does ok we'll go ahead and bring her back to my sister's house for the weekend then mine during the week so I can watch her while they work (the vet isn't 24 hours and doesn't have staff on Sundays so that's why)
They told us the recovery for the surgery should take about 8 weeks our so for her to be fully healed internally....she will now have to stay on a soft diet for an indefinite amount of time as well with special food so she can digest it ok. Please pray for Bailey to make a full recovery without any nasty infections from this. We all love and adore this dog to pieces- she is soo sweet. I am hoping she makes a smooth recover without any complications.
Bailey is really my 13yr old niece's dog- and that pup is her baby- she sleeps in her room at night and is always by her side. We had to tell her what happened to her girl tonight after she got home from school, so she was defiitely upset. I'm just glad we were able to get her surgery done though. The vet said the extent of the material she swallowed would have been fatal without surgery. I am just glad we were able to get her operated on in time. I will update tomorrow as soon as we get back from the vets office (hopefully with her in tow!)
This is one of the only pictures I have of Bailey at the moment, but I thought i'd share it with everyone. (She's a little lab/rat terrrier x) (The picture is from Easter a few yrs ago...Colin was helping my niece Kaitlynn hunt for Easter eggs. The little dog in the background is their Chinese Crested, Mac).