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Old 03-25-2011, 07:55 PM   #1
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Default We almost lost Harley-Quinn yesterday

This past week has not be good for our family my mom ended up in ER with chest pains, they found out she wasn't having a heart attack or a blood clot in her lungs ( Thank God!!!) But did find she could have a torn ligament above her rt breast. The same day Chloe was diagnosed with Cutaneous Vasculitis.

Yesterday I was helping my mom reorganize our linen closet and noticed Harley was choking some how she had gotten a hold of toilet paper and it was logged in her throat. I wasn't able to pull it out tried doggie heimlich nothing by now its been a few min. but felt like hours her little mouth was turning blue as well as her tongue and body was going limp. I jumped in the car with jammies and hot orange fuzzy slippers and flew over to our vet. (travel time with no trains is 10 min) all the while I am holding her and telling her to stay with me at each light I trying massaging her throat and trying everything to get her either to spit up the paper or swallow it, We hit a bump and run into the vet this is when I realize she looks a little more alert and vet doesn't see anything in her throat, and her color is slowing coming back, (she must have swallowed it) Vet gives her 1 milligram of dexatmethasone for shock and tells us we can go on our way.

Now we are home about an hour and she starts vomiting 1st time it is mucous and looks a little tinged with red.

twenty minutes later she vomits up red with a little foam rush her to her normal vet which is half hour away (banfield pet hospital) and then while there we end up waiting over 5 hours for them to see her I try walking her and vomits again bloody I rush her back to the desk and then show them the blood and vet will be with us shortly. Finally we are in a room and waiting to see the vet and vomits again this time it is rust color and vet rushes in and gives her a shot to help her stop vomiting. she runs x rays and they show her bowls are full of gas but nothing that is showing she is blocked.

They tell us bring her back in the morning for blood work and send us home with Sucralfate and pepcid 2x's daily and not to feed her.

Today they run bloodwork and liver enzymes show abnormal but to keep her on the meds and start feeding her cottage cheese and boiled rice. for 7 days then a recheck with the vet and hopefully start on a intestinal diet for about a month before working her back onto her regular food and they will retest her liver. then.

Crossing our fingers and thanking God she is still with us!! But she is still not acting like herself and my mom says she is still weak to give her time to recuperate.. But I am still worried and she is eating her cottage cheese and rice since about 4pm today after not eating for over 24hrs and she has not pooped yet just extremely bad gas. She is peeing so I will call vet as soon as they open in the am.

Please say a prayer for my babies and my mom that they recover soon

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I am sorry to hear about all you are going through. I will keep them all in my prayers.
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Gosh, you and yours have been through so much and I'm so sorry for that. What a terrible scare with Harley. I'll say a prayer for you and yours. Hugs to you! I wish you a great weekend!
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Your poor pup! They really made your dog who was vomitting BLOOD wait over 5 hours to see the vet??? Time to get a new vet! I am still having trouble following the event (choking on toliet paper) with the symptoms (vomitting blood) and the testing (liver enzyme irregularity) and the treatment (cottage cheese & rice for a week). Hopefully one of our mmbers more experienced with GI problems will chime in with some suggestions.

Hope your mom & pup will both be feeling like themselves soon! That is a lot of stress on you too -- take care of yourself!
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I'm so sorry that you are going thru such a terrible time. Saying prayers for your Mom, Harley and you too. Sending hugs.
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Thank you everyone for thinking of us.. Harley is doing better today, she is running around and acting her old self and we are all anxiously awaiting her next BM. Since last night was her first time eating in 24 hours! and waiting for vet to return my call..
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This past week has not be good for our family my mom ended up in ER with chest pains, they found out she wasn't having a heart attack or a blood clot in her lungs ( Thank God!!!) But did find she could have a torn ligament above her rt breast. The same day Chloe was diagnosed with Cutaneous Vasculitis.

Yesterday I was helping my mom reorganize our linen closet and noticed Harley was choking some how she had gotten a hold of toilet paper and it was logged in her throat. I wasn't able to pull it out tried doggie heimlich nothing by now its been a few min. but felt like hours her little mouth was turning blue as well as her tongue and body was going limp. I jumped in the car with jammies and hot orange fuzzy slippers and flew over to our vet. (travel time with no trains is 10 min) all the while I am holding her and telling her to stay with me at each light I trying massaging her throat and trying everything to get her either to spit up the paper or swallow it, We hit a bump and run into the vet this is when I realize she looks a little more alert and vet doesn't see anything in her throat, and her color is slowing coming back, (she must have swallowed it) Vet gives her 1 milligram of dexatmethasone for shock and tells us we can go on our way.

Now we are home about an hour and she starts vomiting 1st time it is mucous and looks a little tinged with red.

twenty minutes later she vomits up red with a little foam rush her to her normal vet which is half hour away (banfield pet hospital) and then while there we end up waiting over 5 hours for them to see her I try walking her and vomits again bloody I rush her back to the desk and then show them the blood and vet will be with us shortly. Finally we are in a room and waiting to see the vet and vomits again this time it is rust color and vet rushes in and gives her a shot to help her stop vomiting. she runs x rays and they show her bowls are full of gas but nothing that is showing she is blocked.

They tell us bring her back in the morning for blood work and send us home with Sucralfate and pepcid 2x's daily and not to feed her.

Today they run bloodwork and liver enzymes show abnormal but to keep her on the meds and start feeding her cottage cheese and boiled rice. for 7 days then a recheck with the vet and hopefully start on a intestinal diet for about a month before working her back onto her regular food and they will retest her liver. then.

Crossing our fingers and thanking God she is still with us!! But she is still not acting like herself and my mom says she is still weak to give her time to recuperate.. But I am still worried and she is eating her cottage cheese and rice since about 4pm today after not eating for over 24hrs and she has not pooped yet just extremely bad gas. She is peeing so I will call vet as soon as they open in the am.

Please say a prayer for my babies and my mom that they recover soon

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I am so sorry you are going through this... First off I have to agree about finding a new vet.

Secondly, was the vomit a lot of blood or just flecked with red? If there is a lot of blood it is imperative to get her to ER. If it is only flecked then it could just be from the convulsing to vomit. I am not a vet, but my baby Gizmo had colitis at an early age, pancreatitis at age 6 and passed from complications of Renal Failure. My hubby and I have studied up on the GI tract extensively.

Ingesting anything foreign is bound to make their values a bit off, as will shock and stress. The key is to weigh the difference of values now with original values and evaluate how big the difference is. A full panel work-up is also fairly important.

Our longtime vet was more than disappointing when he diagnosed Giz with Renal Failure. Basically gave up on him and sent us home with a bag of sub-q fluids and one lesson. He told us he gave him 2wks - 2mos max. With changing vets, doing very diligent home care, we had him with us for an additional 7 mos. of love & playing & just being together. I am in no way suggesting that little Harley is in that type of trouble but really trying to emphasize the importance of changing vets!

Hubby and I will keep you in our prayers. Hugs to all of you ♥
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She had blood work done Super CBC nothing came up regarding her pancreas,no sign of infection her blood count was good. Her liver enzymes they said were a little high. They will test her liver again when she is eating normal in about 3 weeks

I agree about the Vet, we take her to Banfield Pet Hospital ( they are great for the up keep of them, but not great at Emergencies) and the rest of our doggies we take to our other vet the problem is with the other vet they do not have access to immediate blood test results at they send it out. and the Emergency vet is only open in the evenings so I had no where else to take her. and I figured that at least the was a vet in the building if she were to get worse.

She is running around today and not weak like she was yesterday or the day before.

Thanks, everyone for your prayers they mean alot to us

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I'm so sorry for all you and your family have gone through. I hope your mom recovers very well. It's nice to see your little Harley is feeling better today and I hope the results come back good when she is retested.
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I am so very happy to hear that little Harley is feeling better!!

You so did the right thing ~ at least she had a veterinarian close at that critical time! Yorkies are delicate - true - but they have lovely fighting spirits when they know that their family loves them! I hope all goes well with the next panel and will keep Harley and you mom in our prayers ♥
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Your poor pup! They really made your dog who was vomitting BLOOD wait over 5 hours to see the vet??? Time to get a new vet! I am still having trouble following the event (choking on toliet paper) with the symptoms (vomitting blood) and the testing (liver enzyme irregularity) and the treatment (cottage cheese & rice for a week). Hopefully one of our mmbers more experienced with GI problems will chime in with some suggestions.

Hope your mom & pup will both be feeling like themselves soon! That is a lot of stress on you too -- take care of yourself!
I am shocked that you had to wait for 5 hours!!!!!!!!!!
I am so sorry that you have had such a bad time... I hope and send wishes all turns out ok
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Hope she is now feeling better and continues to improve.
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Oh WOW how very scary for this was to happen. I was glad to read she is doing better. Prayers for continued improvement.
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Just checking for an update! I hope everything is still going good with you and yours! Let us know how Harley is doing!
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We have poop
Harley had her first poop this morning since Thursday!! we all were so excited to see poop I am sure our neighbors thought we were nuts! LOL!!!
She is still not 100 percent but you can tell she is on her way to recovery

Thank you! Thank you to everyone for your prayers especially to Connie! Her "Hugs" and concern ment alot to us!!!

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