| yorkietalkjilly | 04-26-2013 05:54 PM |
I am so grateful to you all and Tibbe is going to be okay. Once again, his fecal, urine, bloodwork and heartworm tests all WNL - no elevated liver anything no nothing. I told the vet I was so certain that this time he would have something show up due to his pattern of this happening so often, being better for a while and then so sick again. She said she could palpate nothing in his body and his tummy was now soft and nontender. He ate for her, he drank and he was grouching at them to let him out of his cage.
I had to wait forever to see her as they were so busy - had had emergencies and then Tibbe come in without appointment so it was late before I got out of there with his medicine and new food and then I had to go by the pharmacy and wait at the call-window behind 3 cars to get my prescription and now home. Just gave him his medicine and he's in my lap now. Thank God and thank YT and the vet.
The vet and I had a long talk over this long history of these bouts and she said she is pretty sure his "grazing" outside is doing it and he's got a "sensitive" tummy. She put him on 10 ml. K-Pectin po q 8 hrs and a low fat diet, saying she wanted to see if he did better on easier to digest food and less fat for 2 weeks. She wanted to put him on Royal Canin Low-Fat but he had itched so badly the last time we tried the RC GI that she put him on Hills I/D Low-Fat, 1/4 cup twice daily and I may use a little extra for his "treats". She says that she treats little dogs with tummies like this all the time and it is just a matter of trying to keep them from eating things out of the yard and try the Rx foods until we hit on the right thing for a while, then try a regular food again and see. I told her I don't think there is that much stuff in my yard for him to eat except what the occasional cat or squirrel or bird brings in but if there is anything, he will manage to find it down in the grass and be eating it before I even know it.
I can't help but worry that something is going on with him but she swears that if it were, some blood value or something would be showing up by now and almost promised me he's not really gravely ill somehow and that dogs really can have tummies like this. She said if this doesn't work, we'll try another food.
In a way, I feel like I over-reacted so badly but in another, I am still worried. I so wish we could get to the bottom of what is going on but I am so grateful to hear his labs are all okay I could faint right now. I was so happy to get him back in my arms okay and not bad sick I just cried like a fool when I got outside the vet clinic! Am certain anybody that saw me thought I was crazy as a loon or had just lost a dog. And Tibbe was in his little carrier whining because I was crying and we were both a mess. We got in the truck and I let him out of his carrier and the little guy just kissed all the wet tears all away and just looked at me so long right in the face. I told him what a precious baby he was and thanked him for coming home to me and he just stared back at me. So after a while back he went into his carrier we drove off to get my prescription and now are thankfully home.
I am so grateful for all of your support and being so sweet. I'm so happy but still worried and so hoping the Rx and the food will help him. So sorry to scare everyone but it just seemed that he'd been having such a pattern of this for so long, I was just convinced it had to be something dreadful going on and that finally it was manifesting itself as today is the first time he's has such a thin diarrhea stool with so much mucus. And the way he was just standing with his little head hanging down, even after Pepto and with those loud gastric sounds. But, apparently he's not very very ill and is hopefully going to be okay. I don't know how I'll bear it when the day comes he does ever get really ill. He's just one in a million dogs - I have never had another one like this who does everything he does with an extra flourish - and the thought I could possibly lose him was just racing in my head. I know - I'm crazy but you'd have to know him to know he's extra extra extra special. I apologize - I shouldn't have made it sound so dire but I sure thought this time it was going to be, especially when they kept not calling me and I was too scared to call them!!! But they were just very busy and I did take him in late.
All I can do is beg off for being a scared fool and thank you as graciously as I can for caring. All your sweet posts have me crying again - and I don't cry - except over dogs and soldiers - and your sweet hearts for sending such touching thoughts. I thank you so much for being there, YT'ers. You each are "Tibbe" people to me - extra extra extra special. ♥♥♥ | 