Tibbe had a dental cleaning under anesthesia Thursday, seemed ok Friday, didn't eat Sat. night, hardly anything yesterday, was lethargic, reverse sneezed for a couple seconds a few times, hacked a few times as if he had a hair in his throat of something and threw up once. I gave him some Famotidine, Cerenia for nausea and baby simethicone & was giving him Pedialyte through the day yesterday. He ate a bit last night, seemingly slept well. This morning he was looking at a cat in the alley through the window as I was just starting to take my first sip of breakfast coffee when he started making a kind of "ack-ack" noise in his throat, arched his neck, ran to me and was shaking all over, still "acking". He seemed to be in max distress, he was shaking so hard. He stood there with his neck in that arched position for a few seconds as I tried to find what was going on. He didn't fall down or seem disoriented at all. His ears felt very hot. I threw down my coffee, half-dressed and off we went to the vet, Tibbe panting heavily and shaking on the way, his body occasionally heaving as if he was hacking/coughing but no noise coming out.
The vet could hear no rales or ronchi or anything in his chest, no temp, his throat didn't react to her rubbing around it, didn't feel swollen, his tummy was okay. She thought maybe he had developed some nausea from the anesthesia meds and his throat was irritated to the point of perhaps an infection possibly starting in his trach/throat from the anesthesia tube but I got the impression she's not really that certain right now what is wrong with him.
She started him on Clavamox and refilled his Cerenia and allowed me to bring him home. He has eaten soft food twice since being home, drank his water and hasn't RS'd or hacked any more so far. He's very clingy and won't let me leave him without coming along. He's barked at the garbage truck and a couple of things despite my trying to keep him from using his throat at all except to eat/drink.
We got a package from sweet Alisha(GuinnessStout) and little Guinness from Florida Saturday that I haven't even opened yet as I don't want to stress or excite him while he is feeling so sick. I do know almost any time he gets nauseated for long, his has short RS episodes of one or two RS's that last about 4 - 8 seconds in length. He doesn't go into the long, stiff-body sessions that little Jilly sometimes had - no, just kind of the beginning of a Reverse Sneeze and stops. I always start talking calmingly to him when he does that and he seems to respond. I just hope keeping him as quiet as possible, hydrated, eating soft food, resting and on his meds can help him kick whatever this is.
Once again, I'm here asking for prayers for Tibbe please.
