Well, I just got back from visiting with Meg and a trip to the grocery store to stock up on what I hope will become all of her favorite foods. Thanks everyone for your recommendations on foods to try her on.
I'm uploading a couple pictures of Meg for you to look at. She looks so pitiful with her big bandage holding her catheter in place, but I swear she was smiling up at me when I was rubbing her head and talking to her. She is doing a fairly good job of eating on her own, but the vet isn't comfortable taking her off of the glucose drip and antibiotic IV yet, which means another night at the clinic. I guess she's not eating enough to really sustain herself yet. Her left eye is also producing a lot of gunk. Actually it's producing a lot more than before. Hopefully the antibiotics will do the trick.
The vet said that with cases like this, you usually know how it's going to turn out within the first 24 hours, and Meg definitely seems to be chugging along in the right direction. She's been able to move to the far side of the crate to do her business, and she's been lapping up the Nutri-Cal and Dog-Pedialyte mixture, and lots of water. (I can't remember what she called the Dog-Pedialyte stuff.)
She also tested her stool for parasites. It came back completely negative!
But ---- the
very good news is that, although the vet can't guarantee anything (of course), she
does notthink that Meg has distemper. THANK GOD!!!! She actually said that it sounds like I got her a pretty good pet store. I know I did my research (and I also know I could have been mislead), but it was nice to hear her say that. It made me feel like I wasn't such the villain. I'm not, and I guess I shouldn't feel that way, but the US vets tend to have an "American medicine is better than Korean medicine" attitude. So it was reassuring for the vet to say what she did. She was also much more frank and helpful today.
When I left, Meg was curled up on her blankie and with her favorite toy. I say "favorite" because it's the only one she's shown any real interest in so far!
I actually am going to try to run back over to bring her the right size water bowl. The one she has at the clinic is big enough to make pancakes for 12 in. Okay, slight exaggeration, but it's way too deep for her. The vet swears she saw her drinking from it, but I would still feel better if she has a normal size bowl. The one she normally uses is a low ceramic bowl that measures at a 1/2 cup.