I have a HUGE rave today!
Last week, I took my dog into work with me because he suddenly stopped eating, vomited, and seemed very uncomfortable. At first, all signs seemed to point to pancreatitis, and I decided to leave him in the hospital overnight for supportive care pending an ultrasound the next day. However, when I showed up for my shift in the ER the next day, one of our doctors pulled me aside and told me that it wasn’t pancreatitis, he actually had a septic abdomen- cue complete and utter panic on my part! The ultrasound showed a pocket of fluid and gas in the cranial abdomen, but we had no idea what was causing it.
Obviously, it didn’t look good, but since I have insurance and a really good employee discount, I decided to give him a fighting chance and go ahead with surgery. I was fully expecting them to find something horrible like a necrotic tumor and that would be the end of things, and the doctors didn’t have much hope either. Our surgeons immediately took him back and I tried to prepare myself for the worst. It wasn’t even an hour later when one of them came out to update me, and lo and behold, my dog had a liver lobe torsion that had abscessed! They were able to resect it, place some drains, and I got to be with him while they recovered him.
After six days in the ICU, today he gets to come home!!! I am so, so, SO thankful and grateful for all the amazing people who took care of him over the past week. I feel so lucky that I get to work with the smartest people I know, and I have one heck of a lucky doggo today