 Very sick girl
My computer isn't letting me do a search, and I'm not sure what to ask anyway. I am hoping someone here might have some suggestions, though.
My supposedly 14 yo Yorkie female seems very sick. It started a little over a week ago (Tuesday) with her not feeling well (you can tell), then progressed to vomiting and diarrhea on Wednesday. When Pepto didn't help we called the vet and he put her on some pills which she refused to swallow, even to the point of letting them dissolve in her mouth. The diarrhea stopped, but she wasn't able to keep any - or much - food down.
Not to get too bogged down in everything we've tried through our vet, she was finally x-rayed last Tuesday (a week after her first symptoms). The vet said her intestine looked swollen, the passage small, and gave her a shot they called a Silver Bullet, combining different drugs for different symptom, and also gave us some liquid medicine. But she's continued to get worse.
I'm taking her back in today (Thursday) for blood work. When I had her in with the vet a couple of days ago they mentioned also doing a biopsy for a tumor in the stomach/intestine lining, but said there wasn't much they could do for that.
She hasn't had a bowel movement since last Friday, and hasn't eaten anything substantial in almost the same amount of time. She's drinking less the last couple of days. My fear is we're losing her, and I know this is a long shot, but I was hoping someone here might have a suggestion we or our vet haven't thought of. |