 liver shunt
I would like to tell you my story about my princess Penny. I live in Spain, in England I had a yorkie called pepi he lived to be 15years , always wanted another it had to be just like pepi, one day my dream came true found the double and fell in love, 2mths old a little dream, brought her home only to have her for 2 days, she became very ill, we took her back, he kept her for 2 weeks treating with medication, but not really knowing what was wrong, help from vets but nobody knew what was wrong with her she looked so poorly upsetting to see her, she walked and walked round the room with her head down bumping into everything she had that glazed look in her eyes as she was a druggy high she looked as she was dying, I said that is it, I am taking over I took her to my vets who had a look at her I am not sure but I think it could be meningitis so they rushed her in an ambulance to a large animal hospital she was in a week, they was doing test and my vet kept me informed it was a very upsetting time, I only had her a few days but there was a bond, blood test, xrays, scans the lot. came back that she had a liver shunt a vessel out of the liver so the blood in her body was not going through the liver and filtering but through the heart and brain with all toxins and bacteria no wonder the poor little thing was ill, she had to be on a special diet and medication till she was well to have an operation to fit a metal ring to close the vessel, this was very worrying so tiny, she came out very strong with a zip thats what we called it from her ribs to nearly bottom of her body with metal staples which looked nasty days later they stated to come adrift, back to my vets, she looked at them and said they would have to come out, had to go to the vets every day to be cleaned as it was an open wound, the cream was marvelous, you could see the skin generating new cells, she started to look better in herself started to play but still on medication helping her to fight infection she could get, her amune system not working properly she has been on medication for so long, we take her back for a special scan to see if the seal has worked and the blood is going through the liver, not been on medication for a month now, keeping our fingers crossed, but she is doing very well, if anyone deserved a diamond collar to be a princess she does which she has got SHE IS MY PRINCESS we have spent 2000 euro but that is nothing to see her ok |