[LillieDoodle]

Hi Everyone, Sorry this is going to be long....

So on Saturday, we woke up and the girls were playful having a great time. Then at 10:00 a.m. - Gracie had diarrhea in the house and I just cleaned it up thinking she must have eaten something bad. She was still playing and eating. So then my 2:00 p.m. she had it again - but she was still being her healthy little self and eating and playing. So things calmed down until around 8:00 p.m. as she started to vomit. She was doing this every 10 minutes for an hour. So I called my vet and he informed me to rush her to the emergency hospital right away and that she would see me in the morning to check her over again. So I went to the emergency hospital and they ran all kind of tests and they diagnosed her with Giardia, dehydration and mid-hypoglycemia. They wanted to hospitalize her, but the hospital was so far away - I could not do that, plus she was going to see her normal vet in 8 hours that is only 10 minutes from my house.

Needless to say - it was a long night, I did not sleep a wink and luckily she slept, but no vomiting. By the time I took her to the vet on Sunday morning, she had dropped a 1lb - so she dropped a 1/3 of her body weight over night. They checked her over and gave her a bunch of medicine and sent me home with her. I had to feed her by a syringe all day yesterday and finally at 2:00 p.m., her fever broke and she was holding all food down. Although, she was just a limp little dog yesterday and could not get up. As of today - she has turned the corner - she is up and a little playful, but still week as she lost so much weight over a 2 day period. I am grateful that I did not have to hospitalize her, but I think we have a good five days of recovering in front of us. She is at least eating on her own today.

I just had to vent somewhere as this has been a horrible couple of days as I thought we were going to lose her. She is only 5 months old and I could not imagine her not in our lives.