We came back from a 2 day trip and our girl looked a bit skinner and she looked yellowish. Her eyes were yellow too. My in laws are in health care and knew right away it was something due to her liver since humans get the same symptoms. I tried giving her water but it didn't work as she was throwing it up along with food. My wife took her to the vet at which time they ran organ function test, blood work, feces, heart worm and urine tests. I really didn't want to spend more than 500 but I'm afraid that might be just 1/4 of it.
She was admitted yesterday afternoon and was put on IV with antibiotics. I called today to see what they came up with from the tests. My vet told me her liver isn't doing good. He told me the liver tests that came back with some weird acronyms and that it was 10x what it should be. They want to see 75 on it but it was 750 and another one was 17 times normal.
She will be on IV fluids for 3 days and they will run the tests again on Saturday and will let me know if it's working. I love my dog (I have 3 of these buggers, I kept my male) but he said he's had them before that were 100x times what it should be and have been there for a month. But the cost for a day of IV fluids is almost $250. Before meds and extra days on IV fluids I'm looking at around 1,300.
Is pet insurance worth it?
Is my baby going to be fine?
He told me it was most likely from something she ate. And that it was a good thing I brought her in. Before we took her in her pee was extremely dark, almost gold. I ended up with some on my hand because she tinkles a bit when she gets excited and it stained my hand like if you wipe off monkey blood from your skin.
