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sunshinevet said:
tbh... without giving medical advice... it sounds like anaphylaxsis to me. could be to any kind of insect bite and can present without swelling. See it all the time at my work - ive come to realise that a bee sting can present as anything 😛

But seriously, collapse, white mm's, diarrhoea, responsive to fluid therapy and fine later on almost have me fully convinced on the other side of the planet. I see so many present like this. Obviously there is no way to confirm it but i would ask your vet about it and then look at getting her an epi - pen - reactions tend to get worse.
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She is back feeling like crap again...panting, shaking, tail tucked moping. Wouldn't eat the rice I made her. Didn't respond when SO waved taco bell infront of her nose... =(

I gave her 75mg of tramadol about 30 mins ago and now she is quietly sleeping. Her shaking comes in waves....like she is having waves of pain? If that makes sense? Waves of abdominal pain. I texted dr who saw her today and she suggested the tramadol...

I'm on the fence about taking her to the emerg tonight. If she starts persisting again than I will.
 
MommaFox said:
She is back feeling like crap again...panting, shaking, tail tucked moping. Wouldn't eat the rice I made her. Didn't respond when SO waved taco bell infront of her nose... =(

I gave her 75mg of tramadol about 30 mins ago and now she is quietly sleeping. Her shaking comes in waves....like she is having waves of pain? If that makes sense? Waves of abdominal pain. I texted dr who saw her today and she suggested the tramadol...

I'm on the fence about taking her to the emerg tonight. If she starts persisting again than I will.
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If it were my dog, I'd already be there! Especially, after collapsing like she did!
 
Thank you, everyone... as much as I hate the process, I decided to take him in for a necropsy. I need to know what happened 🙁
wolfspeaker said:
If it were my dog, I'd already be there! Especially, after collapsing like she did!
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wolfspeaker said:
If it were my dog, I'd already be there! Especially, after collapsing like she did!
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Yeah we have been here for a few hours. Left as soon as I posted that because I realized how stupid and cheap I was being. She dererves the best and she's getting $1000 of it as I type this. Just so upset and I hope we can get some answers from the rads.
 
MommaFox said:
Yeah we have been here for a few hours. Left as soon as I posted that because I realized how stupid and cheap I was being. She dererves the best and she's getting $1000 of it as I type this. Just so upset and I hope we can get some answers from the rads.
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I don't judge. 😳 Been in similar situation with cat, only we don't have an emergency clinic here, so I was debating whether I wanted to wake the vet up or not. :laugh:

:xf: you get some definitive and not-so-expensive answers!
 
We've had freezing sleety/snow/rain pellets all day.
My lights just started flickering and I bet the powerlines are getting heavy. 🙁
Going to be a looong day at the farm tomorrow. 🙁
 
I wish I could turn my brain off. 1:30 in the morning and I can't sleep because I'm dwelling endlessly on something that happened ten months ago. I let it go at the time but for some reason lately my brain drags it back up to the surface every so often and it makes me feel horrible because all I want to do is forget it ever happened.

It's like every time I close my eyes and try to sleep, some little jerkface in my head pops up and says "Hey! Hey! Remember that thing that happened that upset you? Let's sit here and picture all the ways it could have possibly gone down!" SHUT UP I JUST WANT TO SLEEP!! 😡
 
wolfspeaker said:
I don't judge. 😳 Been in similar situation with cat, only we don't have an emergency clinic here, so I was debating whether I wanted to wake the vet up or not. :laugh:

:xf: you get some definitive and not-so-expensive answers!
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Thank you...I'm beating myself up. I'm the owner that I always complain about...sigh. well our emergency vet takes high estimate payment upfront and then refunds the difference... so honestly it was me trying to cramble together funds. She is there overnight on IV antibiotic because rads, UA, and second PCV were inconclusive. Emerg vet suspects viral infection...possibly tick born? Only found one tick on her ever and that was 2 years ago. Doesn't mean she hasn't had any more it just surprised me. I honestly don't care I just want her better.

I won't be sleeping at all tonight.
 
And they have a partnership with the shelter I work at so they offered a 25% discount.....I can't argue with that. It really helped me out.
 
Dana is still at the hospital in IV fluids. Fever topped at 105.7 and they were running her IV through ice. At our gen care vet now on fluids. Temp back below 103. Ran some more blood work and her WBC count almost tripled. Right now its FUO but vets are thinking its a nasty viral or bacterial infection.....lepto has been brought up as a possibility as well but its unlikely because she's UTD on VX but we will see. Hoping she can come home tonight but I want what's best for her. Pumping her full of zenequin and I had to search all over town to find affordable doxy....ugh.

Erlichia and lyme negative. Ultrasound and xrays show nothing spectacularly conclusive. Her secum is on the wrong side but I was told that's just due to inflammation pushing it out of place? I'm honestly not stellar at reading rads.

Sold my paddleboard and selling my jeep... This has made me realize that my $500 emergency fund for the dogs is just not going to cut it.

$1600 and counting. =( I just want her to pull through. I'm so very appreciative and lucky to have the shoe ins and benefits that I do.
 
My mom's dog hates me but she decided to lay in bed with me today. The last two times she came downstairs to cuddle were after she had a seizure and when my cat died. I'm worried about what the bad news is this time.
 
MommaFox said:
Dana is still at the hospital in IV fluids. Fever topped at 105.7 and they were running her IV through ice. At our gen care vet now on fluids. Temp back below 103. Ran some more blood work and her WBC count almost tripled. Right now its FUO but vets are thinking its a nasty viral or bacterial infection.....lepto has been brought up as a possibility as well but its unlikely because she's UTD on VX but we will see. Hoping she can come home tonight but I want what's best for her. Pumping her full of zenequin and I had to search all over town to find affordable doxy....ugh.

Erlichia and lyme negative. Ultrasound and xrays show nothing spectacularly conclusive. Her secum is on the wrong side but I was told that's just due to inflammation pushing it out of place? I'm honestly not stellar at reading rads.

Sold my paddleboard and selling my jeep... This has made me realize that my $500 emergency fund for the dogs is just not going to cut it.

$1600 and counting. =( I just want her to pull through. I'm so very appreciative and lucky to have the shoe ins and benefits that I do.
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Keep us updated, hope it all ends up ok. :xf:
 
hedgiehog said:
My mom's dog hates me but she decided to lay in bed with me today. The last two times she came downstairs to cuddle were after she had a seizure and when my cat died. I'm worried about what the bad news is this time.
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Cleo just had a seizure. Poor girl.
 
Can't believe what's happening at the Boston Marathon. WTF is wrong with people? Imagine finishing the marathon and having your legs blown off in an explosion . . . I can't even begin to fathom how horrible that must be for everyone there. 🙁

EDIT: My old roommate was there cheering on a friend of hers. She crossed the finish line and they left the area just 20 minutes before the explosions happened. Thankfully I am reasonably certain that they were the only people I knew in the marathon this year.
 
wldlfstdnt said:
Poor Boston Marathon. Hoping everyone is okay. How scary! 🙁
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Seriously... what are you proving or doing by bombing a marathon? Basically, "F you, people who have trained and worked for years and just finished running for freaking hours..." Or family/spectators supporting them.
 
A friend of mine from college lives in Boston near this. She has ran the marathon in past (not sure if she did this year). Hoping she is okay. I can't understand what is wrong with people and how they can do the awful things they do!
 
I just don't understand. A family I babysit for was there today. Thankfully they are all ok. But there are kids. I don't get it. I just don't
 
wildcatj said:
I don't get it. I just don't
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This. Senseless violence makes me so sad and angry at the same time. My cousin was originally registered to run in it but dropped out because of an injury. Ugh. I get chills just thinking of all those hurt..keeping everyone in my thoughts.
 
I just found out two guys I graduated with were running in it today in honor of our classmate who died a few days into senior year due to his pacemaker malfunctioning. They passed the finish line 5 minutes before the explosions.
 
Just got home from the marathon and thankfully ok. Was near mile 22. My friend's parents are still unaccounted for and they were near the finish line. Praying for them and everyone in my city. 🙁
 
My friends finished between 3:45 and 3:58. Talk about cutting it close. 🙁 Now all I have to do is worry about my non-running Boston friends. I hope we've seen the last of this for the foreseeable future.

Hang in there, Boston 😍
 
CloudlessNights said:
Just got home from the marathon and thankfully ok. Was near mile 22. My friend's parents are still unaccounted for and they were near the finish line. Praying for them and everyone in my city. 🙁
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Thoughts and prayers going out to everyone there. I have many friends and family in the area and have heard from most of them but I don't even know who all went or not in the first place.

I can't help but lose faith in humanity 🙁 watching the news makes me feel ill.

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Well, my dog tore her CCL and needs surgery. Wish I could go see her, was forced to leave her at home when I left for college.

And talk about a mess in Boston. Hope that gets sorted out soon.

This sucks.
 
CloudlessNights said:
Just got home from the marathon and thankfully ok. Was near mile 22. My friend's parents are still unaccounted for and they were near the finish line. Praying for them and everyone in my city. 🙁
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Have they tried the "person finders" set up by the Red Cross or Google? Really hope they are okay. 🙁
 
selisona said:
Glad you're doing ok Cloudless.

Does anyone know if they need blood to be donated?
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They always need blood.

One news station reported that some of the runners who finished afterwards found out what had happened and kept running to Mass Gen to try and donate blood. Inspiring.

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BlackDog17 said:
Have they tried the "person finders" set up by the Red Cross or Google? Really hope they are okay. 🙁
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Just got word that they are all okay! So relieved and thankful.

And selisona, the Eastern Mass Red Cross tweeted that they are set for blood for now thanks to the generosity of so many people:
MT @redcrosseastma: Due to generosity of our donors we don't need blood at this time. Please schedule future donation http://redcrossblood.org
 
shortnsweet said:
They always need blood.

One news station reported that some of the runners who finished afterwards found out what had happened and kept running to Mass Gen to try and donate blood. Inspiring.
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Thanks Cloudless! I was just able to access the Red Cross website. I think I'll go as soon as they have availability.

I am truly amazed and inspired by the compassion of everyone present.
 
This boston tragedy is so terrible. 🙁

Woke up from a much needed hour of sleep to that on the news. I really hope no more people pass away.



Dana is home tonight. Monitoring temp. She's been steady around 101.5 - 102. Really hoping that it doesn't spike and she doesn't have to go to emergclinic again tonight. Ate some A/D with her meds and had herself a good formed stool. Trying not to be too optimistic but I feel less panicked.
 
I'm lucky - everyone I know in Boston already posted on Facebook that they are ok.

I just don't understand why anyone would do this. If they have no agenda, why do it? If they do have an agenda, why haven't they said anything? There are so very many ways to make people pay attention to you if you're willing to break laws. There is no need to cause harm.
 
My best friend's 7 month old baby (I claim her as my niece 🙂 ) was just admitted to the hospital with ventricle arrhythmia 🙁. They have her stabilized in ICU but they aren't sure of her prognosis. If anyone prays or even just sends loving thoughts, please do so. She's very special to me.
 
Emiloo4 said:
My best friend's 7 month old baby (I claim her as my niece 🙂 ) was just admitted to the hospital with ventricle arrhythmia 🙁. They have her stabilized in ICU but they aren't sure of her prognosis. If anyone prays or even just sends loving thoughts, please do so. She's very special to me.
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You got it.
 
Most of the time I can find something good in my day to balance out whatever bad happens but today was just entirely bad.

We had a litter of seven pups come in to rescue from a shelter that was closing for renovations, they all looked great. Less than two weeks later they're showing signs of kennel cough and one has already died after either the fosters' children dropped it (they won't say) or the mother stood on it, and three others are close to death despite treatment. Tack on to that the fact that three separate dogs tried to attack me today, one during sedation for euthanasia, one defending its constantly fearful cagemate, and a third when I grabbed his hips to keep him from catching a cat my coworker had let out without telling me. The third actually managed to scrape my arm pretty badly with his canines, and was still snarling at the cage door whenever I walked by by the time I left this evening. I was told I was by said coworker that I was being melodramatic for asking someone else to take him out for the rest of the afternoon.

Out of this I got yelled at by my supervisor for not being magically aware of the dumb things my coworker does (cats aren't supposed to be let loose in the kennel at all, especially not into the back room) and yelled at by the other techs for "trying to bother" the vet when he was with a client to tell him that one of the puppies sounded like it was going agonal.

On top of all that we had to euthanize several long time patients, and another came in severely neglected and starved because the disabled owner's new homecare nurse "doesn't like dogs". She will probably also have to be euthanized because her liver and kidneys aren't functioning to any normal degree.

I have never had a day this bad working in a clinic, and I'm not really sure how to cope with it. I walked out of there just sort of wanting to sink into the ground and disappear.

Any advice?
 
emacc said:
Most of the time I can find something good in my day to balance out whatever bad happens but today was just entirely bad.

We had a litter of seven pups come in to rescue from a shelter that was closing for renovations, they all looked great. Less than two weeks later they're showing signs of kennel cough and one has already died after either the fosters' children dropped it (they won't say) or the mother stood on it, and three others are close to death despite treatment. Tack on to that the fact that three separate dogs tried to attack me today, one during sedation for euthanasia, one defending its constantly fearful cagemate, and a third when I grabbed his hips to keep him from catching a cat my coworker had let out without telling me. The third actually managed to scrape my arm pretty badly with his canines, and was still snarling at the cage door whenever I walked by by the time I left this evening. I was told I was by said coworker that I was being melodramatic for asking someone else to take him out for the rest of the afternoon.

Out of this I got yelled at by my supervisor for not being magically aware of the dumb things my coworker does (cats aren't supposed to be let loose in the kennel at all, especially not into the back room) and yelled at by the other techs for "trying to bother" the vet when he was with a client to tell him that one of the puppies sounded like it was going agonal.

On top of all that we had to euthanize several long time patients, and another came in severely neglected and starved because the disabled owner's new homecare nurse "doesn't like dogs". She will probably also have to be euthanized because her liver and kidneys aren't functioning to any normal degree.

I have never had a day this bad working in a clinic, and I'm not really sure how to cope with it. I walked out of there just sort of wanting to sink into the ground and disappear.

Any advice?
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When I have days like that I have to remind myself why I love working in this field. I remind myself of the dirty, neglected dogs that come in with rescues, only to return 6 mos later with their new owner looking like a brand new dog. Or the animals that come in seeming like there's no hope only to do a 180 and the owners are over joyed. And even giving an animal a dignified death that is as gentle and humane as we can make it when they are tired and hurting and just need to be let go. There will always be bad days. I just try to remember the good ones almost always outweigh them. As for the coworkers, for me that's harder, but if they work in the same clinic, odds are good they had a bad day too. So as long as they aren't normally like that, I'd chalk it up to that. 🙂 I hope you have better day tomorrow.
 
Abney said:
I wish I could donate but I just got a new tattoo. Sigh
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:thumbsup:

And I don't think I'm allowed to donate anyways because of all the traveling I used to do. There's been so many situations where I've wanted to donate.. 🙁
 
Emiloo4 said:
My best friend's 7 month old baby (I claim her as my niece 🙂 ) was just admitted to the hospital with ventricle arrhythmia 🙁. They have her stabilized in ICU but they aren't sure of her prognosis. If anyone prays or even just sends loving thoughts, please do so. She's very special to me.
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Of course.👍








Dana is back at gen care vet. Fluids all day and second round of zenequin. If she doesn't start feeling better I don't know what I'm gonna do. Financially as well at treatment wise. If the antibiotics don't help, dr mentioned steroids. He thinks its either an viral infection or an immune mediated issue. She managed a tail wag and kisses when she saw BF and roomate...and tail wags and interest this AM whith the other dog in the lobby. Her temp climbed from 102.2 to 103.6 last night. She ate a lot of ice chips, a can of fancy feast (yes, I know, bad mom) and I gave her SQ fluid when her temp was at 103.6. Was at 103.2 this am before we left for vet.

She's starting fo fight with me about her feet ice packs. As frustrating as it is that she keeps wiggling and kicking them off, at least she's struggling. Got maybe an hour of sleep last night...while laying there holding a bag of brussel sprouts on her back paws. Sigh.

:xf:
 
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