My baby Aislee has been sick the past couple days. I have been a nervous wreck. Last Sunday I left her at my dad's while I went to a meeting and once I got back there (3 hours later) he reported that she would not eat or drink anything. So I remade her food, thinking maybe he didn't do it right, and she ate a little bit of it. I couldn't get her to drink so we rushed home. Her appetite came back and she drank her water and ate her dinner like a big girl (she's 15 weeks old today
). Later that morning we woke up at 5am with Aislee throwing up the food she ate. I stayed up with her and just held her, after about an hour I gave her some rice milk and she loved it and drank it up. It sat just fine with her tummy and she started scratching at her bowl wanting food. So I boiled chicken and gave her some, I attempted brown rice as well, however, she gagged on the rice. She ate the chicken and was ready to play as usual. I wanted to try and wait until the next day (Tuesday) to take her to the vet because she already had a scheduled appointment for her last shot. All Monday I was giving her the rice milk and chicken and she did fine, didn't throw up once. Then Tuesday morning we wake up and she goes potty and she has diarrhea. By this point I'm scared to death for my baby, but thankful we were going to see the vet later that day. The vet checked her out and mentioned acid reflux, she also gave me a new medicine for her on going ear infection and a medicine for her diarrhea. She said to call her in the morning to let her know how the puppy is doing. Aislee ended up throwing up again this morning at 5am and then again a couple hours later. I called the vet and let her know and she said that it would be best to run blood work. So I took my little girl back to the vet for blood work and the vet just called me around 5:30pm saying, a lot, but the most important was that it was looking like Aislee has pancreatitis. Were waiting on one last test to come back to either confirm or deny the disease. I'm so sad, and so scared that I'm going to lose my baby girl. I love her so much and just thinking about what may come brings tears to my eyes.
I did a ton of research before I got her and read several books and did everything I could to prepare. Aislee never had any table scraps. ever. And I tried to feed her the most healthy food I could find, she was on Wellness, and her treats consist of bits of apples and the occasional yogurt drop. What did I do wrong? I feel so bad! I just want my sweet girl to be healthy.
I've read a lot of the pancreatitis threads on the site and they scared me to death. Is there anything I can be doing to help her get through this that hasn't already been done? (She's been eating boiled chicken and i.d. canned food that the vet sent home with us on Tuesday.) I feed her small amounts about 4x a day since she's been sick. Please help?
(thanks for reading, I know this is quite lengthy)