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Originally Posted by cristinaberger  Thank you all for your encouragement. I definitely made a mistake by not feeding the correct diet to the dog (because I introduced human food) but I did take her to the vet within an hour of her vomiting blood.
I never invested in pet insurance because I can afford couple of thousand of dollars for emergencies but never thought that she will be so seriously ill that she will need thousands of dollars. At the moment he died, I had already spent a thousand, so I had to make a choice between spending 2 more at the ER just for the weekend and then continuing at the vet on Monday for another week of IV or letting her go. Bringing her home was not an option because she was in so much pain that the painkiller would have only lasted 6 hours and she could not take anything orally and keep it down.
Basically after the first 48 hours she was going down, instead of getting better and that was a very bad sign.
I don't understand how she went from being so active to dieing the next day. Her blood work was so off the chart (the LIP values) that the vet said she must have had some genetic disorder where she just couldn't process that fat at all. Her being just 2.5 years old, she said that the diet I gave her still does not justify her numbers being so high (30 times over the normal for amylase etc).
My husband who never wanted a pet and I had to convince him of having this one, now says that he does want another pet in the future. I am not sure at all that I do want one. I am mad at myself because I researched for a whole week what kind of food is best to dogs in general (as in no chemicals, fillers etc) but I never looked at what is best for yorkies in particular. I only discovered this forum when searching for yorkies and pancreatitis on google, but it was too late.
Her white blood cells, red blood cells results were normal, no fever, no diarrhea. Vomiting was the only symptom. I doubt that the vet would have caught this at a regular annual exam without doing any detailed blood test for liver function etc.
If I do get a pet in the future, I will definitely make sure to talk to a pet nutritionist and do a detailed blood exam every year. I also shied away from vets because I was against vaccination, so I didn't want to be pestered about that by going there. Unfortunately, I could not find a holistic vet in my area.
She taught me several important lessons throughout her short life. It is painful that it had to end this way, time will heal everything. If not time, the cemetery will. |
Best wishes to you and your family. I am sorry...a very hard lesson indeed.
For me, I chose not to have any dogs while raising my son. I was fortunate to have friends who had been through a lot with sick pups so I was very aware of what can happen. My son wanted a dog, but it was not until he was in high school that I finally got one. It was then that I had the time...and the money for emergencies. I was just lucky that I learned from others lessons.....thank you for sharing your story here because it very well may help another person(s) and dog(s).
I am sorry for this all the way around....for you and your family and for your pup who clearly suffered. Very painful lesson indeed.