Oh, please keep my sweet Cookie in your thoughts and prayers. I am so worried about her.
She had been eating slowly for the past week and I had mentioned it to my vet. I had checked her mouth to see if anything was going on there....and it was fine. There were no other symptoms...but it was unsettling to me.
She refused to eat at all yesterday afternoon and someone during the night had had a lose stool which I could not tag to anyone.....when she turned her nose up to food I figured it must have been her. So....I called the vet and took her right in. She had an injection for nausea....she clearly had some gas...but nothing that looked way out of whack. Stools were loose, so she put her on metronidazole. Cookie looked fine...acted fine. Anyway.....I started to walk out and then it hit me that I had received a notice last week that she was due for her yearly labs...heartworm test and all....so I asked for them to that (thank God I thought of it). First thing this morning I received a telephone call from my vet's partner. Cookie's total protein is super low! The low normal is 5 and she is 3.
I am just beside myself right now. They kept her and started IV fluids and hetastarch. He definitely feels this is a GI issue. All of her other levels are fine...and she clearly has GI symproms. They can get hypoalbuminemia from diarrhea, but she has not had it that long; so needless to say I am really worried. Cookie is my healthy girl...this is just so shocking to me.
I asked him if I should perhaps take her to A&M but he feels we need to rule things out first. I cannot stand this...I hate not knowing what is going on.