Taycie Update:::
My girl is home! She has her tube in and she is home and doing great so far. She is on 5 different Medications and she will need around the clock care through out the night.
The good news... She wants to eat!!!! The tube was placed today because they could not get her to eat and she kept refusing food. I brought her home and she was BEGGING for food. Sat her little butt down on my kitchen rug and whined to her hearts content..
So I called the office. The vet on staff made a call to her specialist and he said it was perfectly fine. Just as long as they are small meals. I ran over and got the new RX food she was prescribed and brought it home. I put a 2 tsps in her bowl and she went to town... So, do you think she missed her mom???? This has been the first time in her life where we have been separated at night..
So the goal is keep it down. If she vomits we return to tube feeding.
I also wanted to give and update on her diagnosis. We are not 100% sure it is a shunt.
Below is what was typed in her discharge papers:
We are treating Taycie presumptively for IBD with secondary bacterial overgrowth or entertitis. She may also have liver disease. Either a shunt or MVD. Once she is more stable she will need a surgical exploratory. Goals of surgery will be to obtain GI and Liver Biopsies and to place a constrictor if indicated. Taycie is a neat dog and was a very cooperative patient. She is still having diaherra and we expect that to start to resolve soon.
Sooo this is what I know. I feel awful for letting Taycie being dragged around by my general vet. I really learned a hard lesson.. and I feel so bad I did this to Taycie.
I was told a week ago she had MVD but was never given clear instruction on how to help her with this. Once I saw the specialist he said because her tests have been so unclear Biopsy/ Shunt surgery is our best option.. Many signs point to liver disease. Her neurological signs, pacing, salivating, rubbing her head, staring at nothing... Her Bile Acids post meal were 109, elevated liver enzymes. This will also help us get a clear answer for her stomach.. Because I know it looks awful
I was also told that once we get in there I will know the EXACT form of IBD/ Liver Disease and we will know the exact medication to give.
Again, Thank you all to are thinking and praying for us! This means so much to me!