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Originally Posted by kjc

Peek a Boo's tongue got blue last spring ...he had the beginnings of a cold and I took him to the vet... put on AB's and the next day he was in his bed when I walked past, but I stopped and went back to check his gums and his whole mouth was blue/purple. I picked him up and he was just limp in my arms. I ran to the phone in the kitchen and sat down and gently shook him... he started to wake up/ come around, I kept petting /rubbing him to stimulate his circulation and in a few minutes he pinked up. He couldn't breathe well bc of the amount of mucous in his nose, no way could he eat, and with shallow breathing like that he just got weaker and weaker, his temp shot up to 104.5 F, till I woke him up again, then he'd pink up. Off to the vet's for a change of ABs, nebulizer Tx with Gentamycin, and some oxygen, they told me dogs with pneumonia usually die, and sent us home within an hour! Talk about being out of my mind! I sat with him on my lap for 2 days till the new AB started working, then he got up, wanted to eat and really made miraculous improvement.
I'm still Thanking God for that one!

wow that sounds way scarier than what i just went through - yikes