Fingers crossed for poorly Tommy

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Tommy has been rushed into the vets with a temperature of 41 degrees. He was suddenly very under the weather and hasn’t drank since yesterday.

He’s in having x-rays and all sorts to sort him out :(
 
He’s got a sky high white blood cell count so have pumped him full of antibiotics and fluids and he’s perked up and hoping he will be fine to come home tomorrow.

They have however discovered 2 fused/fusing vertebrae in his back which may explain why he’s always struggled to hold on for the toilet as long as our other dog (we just thought he was an early riser) which may need dealing with as well
 
Tommy is a bit brighter, still got a high temperature and on 2 types of antibiotics. They can’t figure out where he’s picked up the infection but he’s been out for a wander for the loo and has been shouting at all his neighbours rather than just sleeping so they think he is on the mend

I’m so worried about him, he’s such a mummy’s boy 😢
 
That’s definitely a good sign that he is shouting at this neighbours 😊😊 I’ll keep my fingers tightly crossed that he can come home tomorrow x
 
Levrier said:
That’s definitely a good sign that he is shouting at this neighbours 😊😊 I’ll keep my fingers tightly crossed that he can come home tomorrow x
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Thank you so much. They aren’t sure what the infection is but I suppose that doesnt matter if the antibiotics work
 
I keep trying to post but the bloody forum keeps re-setting itself! I find infections very odd. I still quote the example I had about 14 years ago (OMG really???!!) when one of my greyhounds has a severe localised bacterial infection in her leg- she ended up losing the leg - she had only been out in the garden! I lived in the house for years with no problem other than that isolated case, I still don’t understand it 😳
 
Levrier said:
I keep trying to post but the bloody forum keeps re-setting itself! I find infections very odd. I still quote the example I had about 14 years ago (OMG really???!!) when one of my greyhounds has a severe localised bacterial infection in her leg- she ended up losing the leg - she had only been out in the garden! I lived in the house for years with no problem other than that isolated case, I still don’t understand it 😳
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Oh that’s awful! Poor dog! And how bizarre!
 
Abi90 said:
Oh that’s awful! Poor dog! And how bizarre!
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Yep - I was most upset that the poor vets couldn’t tell me why it had happened, they were forced to say it was just of those things! She was fine afterwards I must say, it didn’t bother her one bit - she was racing around the garden, up and down steps, the day she came home after her op 😂😂
 
They’re such a worry, aren’t they? My OH always explains the serious illness by saying ‘sick as a dog’. It’s mad how they’re so ill then bounce back. Hope he carries on improving.
 
Oh poor Tommy. I'm so glad he's getting better. My spaniel came down with pneumonia in a similar way... one minute seemed fine, next he was shaking all over and looking very ill indeed. In hindsight I could see it had been grumbling away for a while because he had lost a bit of weight and wasn't pulling on the lead as much! I just thought my training was finally getting through. Lol. Poor kid. They are such stoic, busy dogs I think it's easy to miss the subtle signs that they are getting a bit under the weather and they don't stop bouncing until they are really ill! I keep a very close eye on his weight and breathing rate now (it had gone up from about 10 breathes a minute to about 25!)
 
Never underestimate the therapeutic benefits of cheese! When our old Lab, Spot, developed dementia, her sleep pattern was very disrupted and after months of her pacing all night every night and getting nowhere with anxiety medication, our vet prescribed a drug short term to help her sleep, he was of the opinion that we just needed to cheat her body into a normal sleeping pattern, the tablets worked very well and after just 3 doses she was no longer becoming anxious about bedtime, we'd given her the tablet in a laughing cow cheese triangle each night for those 3 nights, on the 4th night the vet suggested we try her without the tablet but she became anxious again so we gave her the cheese triangle without the tablet and sure enough within 15 minutes of eating the cheese triangle she had settled in her bed and was sleeping soundly. We tried on numerous occasions to withdraw the cheese triangle but each time she'd get anxious again so she continued having "placebo cheese" every night until we lost her in May this year. 🐾😇😍
 
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