First of all, a huge thank you to all of you for your posts, PMs and emails...calls too.
And, thank you to all who donated to Summer's care. Very sweet of you.
You are all such a wonderfully supportive group and I am so grateful to you. It is so comforting to know that others care about this sweet pup.
Now for her update which is a bit stressful to write. I stopped at the vet in the afternoon to check on Summer. She was very quiet....(I have yet to see the tail wag that they have seen
) ... the tech was cleaning her wounds. She has other wounds that I did not see yesterday...one on her front leg and one on her back...oh and one on her foot. She really took quite a beating.
The vet did manage to get some of the necrotic tissue off of the wound on her neck today...just a part that was pretty much hanging on and it was easy to remove. The tech has been so good to Summer and has been trying to clean her up as best as she can .. the poor thing is so dirty. I just hate to see dirty pups.
But, she is too sick to bathe. The tech has offered to take Summer home with her this weekend if she is stable enough to be out of a hospital. She is still going to need a lot of care for some time.
Late this afternoon the vet called. He is my regular vet's partner (my vet was off today). Anyway....he said that he did not like the way her lungs sounded this afternoon so he xray'd her again and her lungs looked worse than yesterday. He wants to add another antibiotic that will cover any anaerobic bacteria This will be a third one...hopefully that will help. He offered to take her home with him for the night. I told him that I would be happy to take her to the EC or to Gulf Coast rather than put him out like that...but he insisted that he is happy to do it. He said that he and my vet spoke about it and there really is nothing that another place would do for her that they are not doing at this point. So....Summer is home with two vets tonight (his wife is also a vet). I am happy with this, but terrified that she will die. I know I should not think that way, but this is just so awful.
Poor precious baby .. I cannot comprehend what has been done to her.
So...please say lots of prayers for Summer. I am going to hope not to hear from him during the night...and hope that he will call me in the morning to tell me she is a bit better.
Oh...and her blood sugar was 120 late this afternoon...so the force feeding is working. It also could be that the antibiotics are starting to work...hypoglycemia occurs when there is severe infection.