FinnishLapphund
There's no cow on the ice
Blomma, 15½, suddenly got very sick at home today, started throwing up, acted as if she maybe had a brief seizure, or something else making her unable to stand. I'm typing this from the big emergency vet hospital in my city, she's had blood tests, ultrasound, x-rays, and her kidneys + liver values are normal, no tumours, nor blood somewhere it shouldn't be inside of her. But her pancreas looked irritated/unhappy on the ultrasound, and she had/have lots of enzymes in her blood (because the pancreas haven't been able to help with digesting her food the way it should, so instead food enzymes have gotten out in her blood).
They think it's the pancreatitis which caused both the vomiting, and pain making her feel unsteady/not dare to try standing.
The vet said that with all her other values being so good, seeming to be in good shape for her age, and nothing else bad going in her body that they could find, they wanted to keep her over night, giving her fluids with medication + strong painkillers, and later some special food, to see if her body could fix the pancreatitis. I chose to give her the chance. Before today's attack she was still in such good shape that I hadn't even once thought about her quality of life vs if it might be time for euthanasia. Except for that I've occasionally reminded myself about that with her age, the end could unexpectedly come any day (and I definitely thought that day had came earlier today).
Since I didn't want to risk that she might decide to get stressed if I left her alone at the vets at her old age, and since I'm in the fortunate situation that my mum, and dad can take care of my cats at home, I've opted for staying with Blomma over night at the vet hospital. Though I felt very pessimistic, I still packed some stuff so that I could stay, just in case it still was something fixable, and they wanted to keep her to give her some treatment. I was prepared to sit in the waiting room if I had to, but they've given us our own room, a dog mattress, and some extra blankets.
The vet made it sound as if there actually was a chance that, if the medication did help, we might be allowed to go home tomorrow. The thing is, that sitting here alone in a room with Blomma, I started to think about that if I had been at my usual vet clinic, I would've trusted them to tell me if it was unlikely for Blomma to survive a Pancreatitis at her age, and if they would've chosen euthanasia if she'd been their own dog. But instead I'm at the big emergency vet hospital, and I'm not sure if they're treating her because they can, and she's insured, or because there's actually a good chance she might get better.
So, is there any vet staff, or maybe someone who has had/have a dog with Pancreatitis, who think they could tell me if they think there actually is any hope for Blomma to survive this? Or should I presume that this is most likely the end?
She does seem a little bit better now than compared to when we came in with her some hours ago. She can now both stand, and qq1ämanaged to walk outside with the support of her car harness (to see if she needed to pee etc), but she's not interested in eating anything of the real fish meat, 2 wet foods, or 1 dry food they have to offer.
Vibes, hugs, prayers, witch chanting etc, I'll accept anything.
They think it's the pancreatitis which caused both the vomiting, and pain making her feel unsteady/not dare to try standing.
The vet said that with all her other values being so good, seeming to be in good shape for her age, and nothing else bad going in her body that they could find, they wanted to keep her over night, giving her fluids with medication + strong painkillers, and later some special food, to see if her body could fix the pancreatitis. I chose to give her the chance. Before today's attack she was still in such good shape that I hadn't even once thought about her quality of life vs if it might be time for euthanasia. Except for that I've occasionally reminded myself about that with her age, the end could unexpectedly come any day (and I definitely thought that day had came earlier today).
Since I didn't want to risk that she might decide to get stressed if I left her alone at the vets at her old age, and since I'm in the fortunate situation that my mum, and dad can take care of my cats at home, I've opted for staying with Blomma over night at the vet hospital. Though I felt very pessimistic, I still packed some stuff so that I could stay, just in case it still was something fixable, and they wanted to keep her to give her some treatment. I was prepared to sit in the waiting room if I had to, but they've given us our own room, a dog mattress, and some extra blankets.
The vet made it sound as if there actually was a chance that, if the medication did help, we might be allowed to go home tomorrow. The thing is, that sitting here alone in a room with Blomma, I started to think about that if I had been at my usual vet clinic, I would've trusted them to tell me if it was unlikely for Blomma to survive a Pancreatitis at her age, and if they would've chosen euthanasia if she'd been their own dog. But instead I'm at the big emergency vet hospital, and I'm not sure if they're treating her because they can, and she's insured, or because there's actually a good chance she might get better.
So, is there any vet staff, or maybe someone who has had/have a dog with Pancreatitis, who think they could tell me if they think there actually is any hope for Blomma to survive this? Or should I presume that this is most likely the end?
She does seem a little bit better now than compared to when we came in with her some hours ago. She can now both stand, and qq1ämanaged to walk outside with the support of her car harness (to see if she needed to pee etc), but she's not interested in eating anything of the real fish meat, 2 wet foods, or 1 dry food they have to offer.
Vibes, hugs, prayers, witch chanting etc, I'll accept anything.
Its amazing theyve let you stay with her, thats so nice of them.
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. She's been doing so well for a dog her age before this, so I really hope it won't be too much for her, but if I think the extra strong painkillers can't help her enough, I will give up, and be happy with having gotten 15 ½ years with her. 
