Just hoping and praying...my thoughts are with you, always.

So happy to hear there is some improvement. Continuing to pray for Cassie and for you, Shellie.

Continuing to pray for Cassie and you.

Update
 

Went to see Cassie twice today. Seemed to be breathing a little easier, but talked with the doctor. She is very worried.

Doesn't know why she keeps getting pneumonia. No smoking gun, no explanation. Like looking for a needle in a haystack. Keeps turning blue at the slightest handling. She said if Cassie keeps doing okay for a short while, and then BAM getting serious pneumonia, gets well and then gets serious pneumonia again and again, they either need to find what the cause is once and for all, or talk about quality of life issues.

Their options for exploring etiology in search for underlying causes limited due to her size and her fragility. My two vets holistic and traditional will be talking. I am so sad and weary. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

She was at the vets and did fine. Home with me 1 week and deathly sick again. I keep going over and over in my mind, what did I do? At night was a little cool, not really cold at all and I took her out for potty with no sweater. Only out about 3 minutes. Cool in house also and no sweater. Kicks the blankets off at night when she sleeps. Maybe I should have kept her in her sweat shirt all the time, but she does not do well when she is too warm. I am so confused and distraught.

I'm so very sorry to hear your little Cassie is so sick.
Please.............know that it is nothing that you did wrong. This is not your fault. You are a good mommie. Your little one has been dealt kind of a bad hand. Poor baby. Am hoping they can find the reason for this.
Will continue to offer up prayers for the both of you.

praying for both you and cassie// you are a amazing mom to cassie

I believe your posts said the last time her pneumonia was bacterial. Have you checked your home for mold? It rained like the devil here last year and I have a new house that they didn't slope doors correctly to offset the torrential rain. (they don't typically use gutters like they do in the north where I am from) So anyway within a few months I noticed my breathing was weird. So I was looking at the baseboards that faced the biggest area of my home that gets hit with water and saw some softness. Anyway I got a mold kit and that convinced us to get a remediation crew out to look. Sure enough I had mold. I was lucky we caught it before it went up the entire wall (we have 30 foot walls in the back of the house) they had to tear up some wall, plastic it off and get rid of the mold. Now I need all new doors and some molding dry wall replaced. I wont go into how much this has all been.
Bottom line is my breathing is totally normal now and I have a daughter with allergic asthma so I am glad I caught it quick for her, the family and Jess.
Its just a thought. I know it can really rain down south. I hope Cassie is doing better..

I was wondering the same thing, possibly environmental? Could she possibly be aspirating as she eats or drinks? Even something as innocent as shampoo, hair products or colognes, hers and yours? I pray she gets better quickly this time, and that you are able to find out what exactly ails her. Does she have asthma?

Thank you Kimp 5 and Kathy for your thoughts. She is still on Imipenem and breathing seems quite a bit better.
They don't know what the nidus is, the etiology. Maybe auto immune one of them speculated but she reacts well to imipenem really quickly, so there's that. No mold in house. Doesn't rain lots in the desert. Did have flood in the house in March, but had all new walls put in and they had a device that checked for mold in the walls and throughout house and there was no mold. No asthma. I feed her by hand off my fingertips a little at a time, so no aspiration pneumonia. Don't wear cologne. Bathe her very seldom due to fear of her catching, guess what? Pneumonia! LOL. No laughing matter though. If she can find a portable O2 cage my holistic vet wants to take her home and care for her there if they are unable to get her off O2. Biggest challenge today, not eating.
Love, Shellie

Traveled down the coast to holistic vets home to pick up holistic remedy's she mixed up for Cassie and me. She left them there for me because it was her daughters bday and they went to sea world. T/W her several times by phone and texting. Traveling time back and fourth, left 2pm, got back to Cassie at 7PM, got home 8:30 - 9:00 PM Very tired. Going to bed soon.
Love to all
S

Well, know that I'll do what I can for Cassie and praying is really all I can do. So praying very hard for you both right now.

praying for both you and cassie/ you are a amazing mom

Continuing to send prayers for Cassie, and you.

Sending more prayers

And more Prayers!!!! YOU ARE A GOOD MOM!!!!!!!

Thinking of you and sending positive thoughts. :love:

I'm sure there is NOTHING that you are doing wrong at all. Poor you, Poor Cassie! I pray that she gets better quicker this time and stays better! I hope the holistic remedy helps and she's off O2 soon. My heart goes out to you!

My thoughts and prayers are still coming your way! I hope Cassie is improving at a steady pace. Keep the faith!

You both are still in my thoughts :aimeeyork

Sending thoughts and prayers by the bunches

Haven't stopped praying, Shellie. I know how tough this has got to be for you and especially for Cassie. God bless you both.

My thoughts, my prayers...continue.

Shellie, you and Cassie are constantly in my thoughts and prayers. You both have so many people pulling for you. Stay strong!

As you can see, the Yorkie Talk Family has circled you and little Cassie with our love and prayers. The circle continues. May you both feel the warmth and love from this tight knit circle.

I just want to echo Jans sentiments...you and Cassie are loved, thought of often and prayed for constantly.

Praying for you and Cassie...

Cassie Update for YT Angels
 

Hello everyone,

Just returned from ER seeing my little girl, t/w doctors, techs, etc. Got there before 7PM it is now 9:20PM, so very tired, so forgive me if update is brief.

Head Dr on duty discussed this morning about doing lung aspirate to try to further investigate Cassie's situation. I and my holistic Vet are against this, we feel this could kill her in her current weakened and fragile state. However on a positive note, since the homeo's she is doing much better. She is eating, drinking and down to 34% O2. Resting comfortably. Sleeping a lot but not struggling to breathe. They will try to wean her off tonight very slowly, if possible. Still on the imipenem. The head doctor at the ER told me the entire staff has been taking the aromatherapy remedy my holistic vet gave to Cassie to help them cope with their jobs and calm themselves down. My holistic Vet and I were hysterical. She said, if I would have known, I would have sent more (LOL).

I t/w a pet communicator today in order to see if I could get some closure and help with healing the grief over losing Muffin. By nature I am a very difficult person to convince, although I think of myself as a very spiritual person who walks a spiritual path in life. But my rational, left brain side is very strong so I am not easily convinced or swayed unless I really have evidence that something extraordinary has occurred. I am on the fence about my encounter with this particular pet communicator. I was hoping for much more. I need lots of specifics and very few generalities, and this was quite the opposite, with lots of generalities and very few (like two) specifics. All other specifics were wrong or couldn't be understood. So I have to admit that i was disappointed, but not surprised.

Although I am still in terrible grief, it made me realize that I must be there for my baby Cassie, as she is the one who needs me now, she is the one who is still here, she is the one who is suffering and struggling to survive, so if nothing else, the encounter made me take stock and realize that I have to go on and help the one that I can help. I still can't stop crying, or longing for my Muffy. I still can't stop aching for her warm soft little body. But I know that I have to be positive for Cassie, and so I am taking my holistics to help with healing the grief and with being present and open to joy in this world.

Thank you for being there for me to help me in my life journey. You are a very important part of my life in so very many ways, and on so very many levels. Thank you for being my teachers, my friends, my support system, my counselors, my cheerleaders, my Yorkie Talk family. And that is what we are, family, from all across the country and the world, I think. We are one, connected by love and spirit, and connected to and by all the animal souls that we have ever loved.
In gratefulness
Shellie

Shellie, you are truly coping with more than most could. You are a beautiful soul touched by angels, Cassie and Muffin. I am praying hard for your little girl to get healthy. Bless you for being a great mom to both and staying strong for Cassie while she is struggling. She is so fortunate to have you.

I am so sorry that you have to go through all of this// you are truly a very special person and cassie is so lucky to have you as her mom// praying for both of you

Ah Shellie, hang in there girl, we all have got your back, and are praying for you and little Cassie. ~hugs~