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mgrijalva15 · 12-30-2009, 05:28 PM

My little Enzo is a 6 month old Biewer. When he was 3 months he started to vomit once a day, we took him to the vet and they gave him some shots and he was was okay for about a week. Then, it started up again...the vet suggested he may have tapeworms, so he got some more shots and he was okay for about a month. After my finals Enzo got really bad and started vomiting everything. He couldn't eat or drink anything! From 4 1/2 months to 5 1/2 months he was terrible! We went from vet to vet trying to find an answer. He was on like 5 medications and nothing seemed to be working. There were times that my fiance and I stayed up with him at night to comfort him because he could not sleep and would vomit all night. They ran blood work, x-rays, everything..and all his exams were within normal limits. He was constantly getting IV from the vet because he was so dehydrated. He went from 8.7lbs to 6lbs! My poor baby was skin and bones. Thank god we had insurance for him, but even then we spent thousands and thousands of dollars on him. My fiance and I are both graduate students so we were running out of money quickly...it seemed like he was at the vet everyday and our bills were nothing less than $400 each visit! I was so tired of spending so much money and still my baby was suffering. The worst feeling is to look at him in his eyes and know that there was nothing more I could do. One vet suggested that I went to an internal specialist, but it was too much money! At this point we had already spent so much money and the consultation alone was $150!!! My other option was to do an exploratory surgery that could cost me up to $3k! The problem with the surgery was that if Enzo had some kind of congenital problem, then the doctor would not be able to fix it during the surgery and I would then for sure have to seek an internal specialist. I knew that I had to act fast because Enzo was just losing too much weight and was getting weaker each day. At this point he wasn't able to eat at all! My family and I all prayed for him... we decided to go through with the surgery. After the surgery the vet called me and said that they found absolutely nothing wrong. When I heard this news my stomach dropped, I needed him to find something wrong with Enzo so we could fix it. When we picked him up he was very weak and had a 6 inch incision in his stomach. At this point the doctor broke it down... he either had mega esophagus (his esophagus was to large and his muscles were not strong enough to push his food to his stomach) or pyloric stenosis (a narrowing in the opening between his stomach and intestines) . The doctor wanted me to drop him off the next day for a Barium exam. This means that they would give him a milkshake substance and take many x-rays so they could trace the liquid. I went home that night and prayed A LOT! My poor Enzo was losing weight and Energy

I didn't know how much more he could take. His long beautiful coat was no longer shinny and healthy, instead his arms were shaved from the IV, his stomach was shaved from the surgery, and he was skin and bones

. The next day I dropped him off for 8 hours. The vet called me to come pick him up, when I arrived he told me he could not explain what had happened and he needed me to see the x-rays. The x-rays yield one of the doctors diagnosis, it was pyloric stenosis. My stomach dropped, I didnt know how I was going to pay for his next surgery. He started showing me the x-rays and explaining to me what was going on in each one.

X-RAYS
1 hour after giving him the liquid- the liquid had made it to the stomach
2 hours after giving him the liquid- the liquid remained in his stomach
3 hours after giving him the liquid- the liquid still remained in his stomach
4 hours after giving him the liquid-the liquid was still there
5 hours after giving him the liquid- the pyloric opening started opening and becoming less narrow
6 hours after giving him the liquid-the opening continued to grow and become less narrow
7 hours after giving him the liquid-the opening was the size of a normal dog!
8 hours after giving him the liquid- The liquid was all gone from the stomach and had made it into the intestines !

It has been about 2 weeks since surgery and Enzo is no longer throwing up!! He is now up to 7.2lbs! I don't know what happen but it sure seems like a miracle to me. I am writing this to ask everyone to please pray for little Enzo to continue to do better and hopefully soon reach his normal weight.

Thank you to everyone who read this.

12-30-2009, 05:28 PM	#1
mgrijalva15 Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Posts: 93	little Enzo My little Enzo is a 6 month old Biewer. When he was 3 months he started to vomit once a day, we took him to the vet and they gave him some shots and he was was okay for about a week. Then, it started up again...the vet suggested he may have tapeworms, so he got some more shots and he was okay for about a month. After my finals Enzo got really bad and started vomiting everything. He couldn't eat or drink anything! From 4 1/2 months to 5 1/2 months he was terrible! We went from vet to vet trying to find an answer. He was on like 5 medications and nothing seemed to be working. There were times that my fiance and I stayed up with him at night to comfort him because he could not sleep and would vomit all night. They ran blood work, x-rays, everything..and all his exams were within normal limits. He was constantly getting IV from the vet because he was so dehydrated. He went from 8.7lbs to 6lbs! My poor baby was skin and bones. Thank god we had insurance for him, but even then we spent thousands and thousands of dollars on him. My fiance and I are both graduate students so we were running out of money quickly...it seemed like he was at the vet everyday and our bills were nothing less than $400 each visit! I was so tired of spending so much money and still my baby was suffering. The worst feeling is to look at him in his eyes and know that there was nothing more I could do. One vet suggested that I went to an internal specialist, but it was too much money! At this point we had already spent so much money and the consultation alone was $150!!! My other option was to do an exploratory surgery that could cost me up to $3k! The problem with the surgery was that if Enzo had some kind of congenital problem, then the doctor would not be able to fix it during the surgery and I would then for sure have to seek an internal specialist. I knew that I had to act fast because Enzo was just losing too much weight and was getting weaker each day. At this point he wasn't able to eat at all! My family and I all prayed for him... we decided to go through with the surgery. After the surgery the vet called me and said that they found absolutely nothing wrong. When I heard this news my stomach dropped, I needed him to find something wrong with Enzo so we could fix it. When we picked him up he was very weak and had a 6 inch incision in his stomach. At this point the doctor broke it down... he either had mega esophagus (his esophagus was to large and his muscles were not strong enough to push his food to his stomach) or pyloric stenosis (a narrowing in the opening between his stomach and intestines) . The doctor wanted me to drop him off the next day for a Barium exam. This means that they would give him a milkshake substance and take many x-rays so they could trace the liquid. I went home that night and prayed A LOT! My poor Enzo was losing weight and Energy I didn't know how much more he could take. His long beautiful coat was no longer shinny and healthy, instead his arms were shaved from the IV, his stomach was shaved from the surgery, and he was skin and bones. The next day I dropped him off for 8 hours. The vet called me to come pick him up, when I arrived he told me he could not explain what had happened and he needed me to see the x-rays. The x-rays yield one of the doctors diagnosis, it was pyloric stenosis. My stomach dropped, I didnt know how I was going to pay for his next surgery. He started showing me the x-rays and explaining to me what was going on in each one. X-RAYS 1 hour after giving him the liquid- the liquid had made it to the stomach 2 hours after giving him the liquid- the liquid remained in his stomach 3 hours after giving him the liquid- the liquid still remained in his stomach 4 hours after giving him the liquid-the liquid was still there 5 hours after giving him the liquid- the pyloric opening started opening and becoming less narrow 6 hours after giving him the liquid-the opening continued to grow and become less narrow 7 hours after giving him the liquid-the opening was the size of a normal dog! 8 hours after giving him the liquid- The liquid was all gone from the stomach and had made it into the intestines ! It has been about 2 weeks since surgery and Enzo is no longer throwing up!! He is now up to 7.2lbs! I don't know what happen but it sure seems like a miracle to me. I am writing this to ask everyone to please pray for little Enzo to continue to do better and hopefully soon reach his normal weight. Thank you to everyone who read this.