last week I almost lost my baby girl
sooooo, if you have ever had a dog you know in some ways they are worse than children. well my chloe wasn't feeling well when I got home one night last week and wasn't interested in food (!!?!) and was just acting generally sick and lethargic. I started to get really concerned and wondering if I should take her to the vet, but it was getting late and by then she would have had to go to the emergency vet which I was loathe to do for just a tummy ache; but it wasn't improving. she was acting like she wanted to sleep but lay on her bed with her eyes open. squiggy kept running over to her like to check on her and then running away.
suddenly she got up and ran to the stairs like she wanted to go outside. she made it halfway down the stairs and started throwing up and OUT CAME SCREWS!!!!!! like almost 20 of them!!!! so of course I freaked the fuck out and then she had to be rushed to the emergency vet. they took x-rays and by then it was midnight and there were still SEVEN screws left in her - two were caught up in her intestines, two in her colon and two in her stomach so they had to wake the surgeon up at home and get him in there to operate on the poor baby. oy vey.
went to lucky 13 for some much-needed tequila to await the phonecall telling me if she was going to make it through ok - I finally couldn't take it anymore and called them when I got home at 5 am and was on hold forever - what a horrendous ten minutes that was - but she lived through the surgery thank goddess and is going to be OK!!!! they had to cut open her stomach and intestines though to get the screws out so she is still in a lot of pain obviously. they shaved her back to put a pain patch on her. I pulled up my shirt and asked them for one for myself. no go. :P
once her stomach and intestines sealed up and she could eat on her own they let me take her home. she is absolutely miserable because she can't lay down in any of the usual ways; her stomach is all tender and sutured up and she has this plastic cone on her head so she won't chew her stitches out and open up her belly UGH. so she stands all day and cries because she is exhausted. I haven't gotten any good sleep in days, I'm dying here. last night she actually leaned the front end of the cone on the floor with her nose practically touching the floor and kind of dozed off standing up!! the poor little girl. :( the cone has to stay on for 2 weeks! but her sutures do look like they're healing at least.
I'm going to see if I can get a copy of the x-ray - you have to see this! why would a dog eat screws???
suddenly she got up and ran to the stairs like she wanted to go outside. she made it halfway down the stairs and started throwing up and OUT CAME SCREWS!!!!!! like almost 20 of them!!!! so of course I freaked the fuck out and then she had to be rushed to the emergency vet. they took x-rays and by then it was midnight and there were still SEVEN screws left in her - two were caught up in her intestines, two in her colon and two in her stomach so they had to wake the surgeon up at home and get him in there to operate on the poor baby. oy vey.
went to lucky 13 for some much-needed tequila to await the phonecall telling me if she was going to make it through ok - I finally couldn't take it anymore and called them when I got home at 5 am and was on hold forever - what a horrendous ten minutes that was - but she lived through the surgery thank goddess and is going to be OK!!!! they had to cut open her stomach and intestines though to get the screws out so she is still in a lot of pain obviously. they shaved her back to put a pain patch on her. I pulled up my shirt and asked them for one for myself. no go. :P
once her stomach and intestines sealed up and she could eat on her own they let me take her home. she is absolutely miserable because she can't lay down in any of the usual ways; her stomach is all tender and sutured up and she has this plastic cone on her head so she won't chew her stitches out and open up her belly UGH. so she stands all day and cries because she is exhausted. I haven't gotten any good sleep in days, I'm dying here. last night she actually leaned the front end of the cone on the floor with her nose practically touching the floor and kind of dozed off standing up!! the poor little girl. :( the cone has to stay on for 2 weeks! but her sutures do look like they're healing at least.
I'm going to see if I can get a copy of the x-ray - you have to see this! why would a dog eat screws???