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Originally Posted by Ellie May  The nausea is probably from the anesthesia.
The coughing and RS is very normal post Et tube (as long as it doesn't continue fr too long or tet worse - picking up kennel cough on surgery day may be a consideration). It does sound like a sore throat too. But bc he was acting ok and then suddenly had that arching episode..hmm. My mind goes back to a few months ago when he got sck and the first symptom was a neck issue. Hot ears I suppose could befear. Arud here it means severe spinal pain for Elle. |
Crystal, you have a mind like a steel trap! Yes, he appeared in the bathroom holding his neck turned to the right and just standing with it that way in late May, early June. I thought as it was the middle of the night when I'd gotten up to go to the bathroom, perhaps he'd fallen off the doggie steps trying to follow me half-asleep and we immediately went to the ER Vet. They gave him a full exam, including his neck, back, head, belly, joints, all over due to a suspected fall, pain medicine to do his neck/spine series(WNL for bony abnormalities) but did no MRI or anything and when released for home, gave him Prednisolone, anti-nausea meds and ?pain Rx? home and he fairly quickly started that month-long tummy event. He just doesn't "do" drugs well at all. His neck and back exams then and today were WNL and he doesn't
seem to limit any of his attempts to jump, turn his neck to look back over his shoulder or anything but I do keep that neck episode in my mind as a constant worry. If you recall, also, he didn't get well right away, he'd have good tummy days and bad with icky stools, it went on and on, and I was ready to pull my last hair out thinking he had some dread disease process until YOU very kindly told me to be patient with that type of GI issue and that it could take a little while to get better. Once I relaxed a little about it, Tibbe seemed to, too, and did go ahead and clear up to normal fairly soon after that!
I think my anxiety over anything being wrong with him goes straight to him and scares him silly, too. Funny, working at the doctors' office all those years, people could seize, have a heart attack, fall or faint and I was always Miss Cool in emergencies but around a sick animal, I am a wreck. But it did seem as if he were choking or having some trouble in his throat getting breath from that "acking" sound he was making. He acted a little like Jilly did at first when she choked. I am the worst of mommies for a Yorkie in that way since they tend to be so hypersensitive to people. How in the world can I get a handle on not panicking when he acts really ill? I always think he is going to die right then and there like when Jilly choked on her chewie and stopped breathing. I wish I could learn how not to panic.
