myhorsefred
Well-Known Member
A little update for those of you following Poppy!
She is home! Yay! I am so relieved to have her home. She is still a very poorly dog, but is slowly on the mend and the vets think being in her own surroundings will help her. We have to keep her very, very quiet and she has to rest.
She has a whole cocktail of drugs to take - hubby has had to write it all down on a timed chart to make it easy to understand which ones to give her, and when. Basically every two hours she needs a different batch of drugs. And we are doing two hourly observations on her pulse, gum colour, noting her bodily movements etc so we can update the vet and notice if anything changes.
We couldn't get her straightaway this morning because her red blood count had dipped overnight. It was 29 yesterday, and this morning it was 25. The vets decided that she could come home, on the proviso that she is rested.
At the moment she is sleeping on the foot of my bed (where she has been mostly all day!) and I am in bed with my laptop and hubby bringing up lots of tea!
She is eating little bits of cooked chicken and soft dog food. She is not as bright as her normal zippy self, but is happy. Her tail wagged so much when she got home, she was clearly happy to be back.
The reunion between her and our red setter, Wilson, was tearful. He was licking her all over and she was kissing him back!
She has to have another round of tests on Monday. I am hoping I can build her up by then with lots of love, sleep and good food.
I am gonna make her better.
Thank you guys so much for all your help. I am really, really grateful and you have really pulled me through this. If I could buy each one of you a bunch a flowers I would, but I have a huge vets bill to pay! lol
thanks again.
She is home! Yay! I am so relieved to have her home. She is still a very poorly dog, but is slowly on the mend and the vets think being in her own surroundings will help her. We have to keep her very, very quiet and she has to rest.
She has a whole cocktail of drugs to take - hubby has had to write it all down on a timed chart to make it easy to understand which ones to give her, and when. Basically every two hours she needs a different batch of drugs. And we are doing two hourly observations on her pulse, gum colour, noting her bodily movements etc so we can update the vet and notice if anything changes.
We couldn't get her straightaway this morning because her red blood count had dipped overnight. It was 29 yesterday, and this morning it was 25. The vets decided that she could come home, on the proviso that she is rested.
At the moment she is sleeping on the foot of my bed (where she has been mostly all day!) and I am in bed with my laptop and hubby bringing up lots of tea!
She is eating little bits of cooked chicken and soft dog food. She is not as bright as her normal zippy self, but is happy. Her tail wagged so much when she got home, she was clearly happy to be back.
The reunion between her and our red setter, Wilson, was tearful. He was licking her all over and she was kissing him back!
She has to have another round of tests on Monday. I am hoping I can build her up by then with lots of love, sleep and good food.
I am gonna make her better.
Thank you guys so much for all your help. I am really, really grateful and you have really pulled me through this. If I could buy each one of you a bunch a flowers I would, but I have a huge vets bill to pay! lol
thanks again.
