[infernostang69]

I'm new on here. I've searched for other threads similar, but haven't found anything, and I'm sorry, but I feel like I'm running out of time. I'm also sorry this is so long, but I'm freaking out a little bit now.

Everything started a couple of weeks ago. Our baby, Anastasia, had her first round of shots on Monday Sept 13th. At the time, she was a little over 10 weeks old. We were VERY reluctant to get them because she only weighed 1 lb 0.8 oz. She had been sneezing the week before her shots, but I thought it was allergies from her new food (she was born with a nervous disorder that she has since grown out of, so she was bottle fed for a while), so when I switched her food (I know it was bad to do suddenly) she quit sneezing, so I thought it was just allergies because Bil Jaks has corn in it (we switched her to Natural Balance - Duck allergy formula).

After her shots, she was soooo hyper. Running around, eating fine. Tuesday night, she didn't eat a whole lot. Wednesday morning, she was falling over, so we took her to the vet immediately. She was hypoglycemic, so they gave her sugar water, and said she might be coming down with something. They wanted us to continue giving her sugar water every once in a while.

Saturday after her shots, Sept 18th, she had been sneezing again the night before, so we took her to the vet. She had a slight temperature 102.6, so they put her on amoxicillin. She was up to 1 lb 1.5 oz then. She hasn't had much of an appetite at all since then. We took her to the vet Wed Sept 22, and they said she wasn't running a fever 99.7, so the amoxicillin must be working. We told him she seemed like she was having trouble chewing, swallowing, or breathing because she was making a really weird noise when she would chew. He looked her over and said she seemed fine to him, the noise was probably from her nose being stuffy. She had thrown up a few times, but it was just mucus (vet said that was normal since she had a cold).

She ate mushy foods for a few days, now she'll only do liquids. She seems like she's having trouble swallowing and breathing still. I called the vet Sat morning, Sept 25, but he said as long as she's eating something, he thought we should wait until today to bring her in. She was down to 13.5 oz on Fri, but I've been force feeding her now (liquids only) and she's back up to 14.5 oz. She tried to eat her solid foods the last two/three days, but she just chewed it up and couldn't swallow it. She is cutting teeth still, too.

So, when we took her in today, they said it seemed like she was having trouble breathing. We're like 'duh'. They kept her today on IVs and ran tests on her. She's too small to do a lot of tests. They said they think her liver is fine (no liver shunt - thank God because that's what I was afraid of), there's no signs of worms or parasites, but all of her blood work came back elevated. They couldn't get her to pee. I swear that she is potty trained on her potty pads, and they just had her in a cage with a heating pad, so they're freaking out because she didn't pee the whole time she was there - like 5 hours - so they think she has a kidney problem. They didn't feed her or give her anything to drink the whole time she was there. We told them she hadn't had much to drink this morning and we didn't feed her yet because we knew they'd be doing tests.

They kept the IV thing in her arm, and they want us to bring her back tomorrow to put her on an IV again all day. She's been walking around a little bit, even now with the IV thing in her leg, but she has been for the last 3 days. She's been more alert the last few days also, was peeing a lot because we've been keeping her hydrated until today, because they didn't (except the IV). She just seems to be having trouble breathing still. They did an xray and said there was a little bit of fluid in her lungs, but they think she has a kidney problem. My husband and I aren't vets or doctors, but are we missing something? If she's having trouble breathing and has fluid in her lungs, how is it a kidney problem? They want us to get a urine sample, but they left that stupid thing in her arm, and she can't squat with it in. The first thing she did when she got home was poo standing up.

We're thinking about getting a second opinion, or trying to get a urine sample and not let them have her again until they test it. Her urine has been clear. Wouldn't it be dark if she had a kidney problem? And, she hasn't peed since she's been home (because the vet didn't give her anything to drink). They also said that there is a really really small chance that she had a reaction to the shot. I had a ferret who died because his kidneys failed (renal failure) and they showed me the xray. You could see on the xrays that his kidneys were failing.

Any thoughts about what could be wrong with our baby? The vet is stumped, too. Could she have pneumonia? Her temperature was really low today, 98.6.