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Tuesday, around 9pm – Mr Dog vomits up his dinner and his bully stick

Tuesday, around 11pm – Mr Dog wakes me up from sleep to go out in the yard and retch. And retch and retch. And then try to eat some grass. I stop him, drag him back in the house and put him back to bed.

Tuesday, around 1130pm or 12 – Mr Dog wakes me up and I send Joshua out with him and Little Dog so he can retch some more. They are outdoors for a good long while.

Wednesday, around 1am (I think) – Mr Dog still has me awake so I take him and Little Dog into the office and let them both outside. Mr Dog tries to eat more grass and continues retching. And retching. He manages to get up some spit, some water and a little bit of grass. This is no help.

Wednesday, around 330am – Mr Dog and I are still awake. I put Little Dog back to bed after consulting with Joshua about the Emergency Vet. We decide to wait until around 7am.

Wednesday, around 700am – I call the emergency vet and schedule an appointment for 8am. Mr Dog and I have been up since 1am with occasional dozing. He keeps retching and trying to eat grass. I keep trying to stop him. (Not that this is always successful as I’m naked and glasses-less chasing him around the yard mostly in the dark.)

Wednesday, around 8am – We get to the vet and have the inital exam. After he drools a lot and farts a lot and has his tummy prodded, the vet decides to do X-rays. I call off work.

Wednesday, around 930am – The vet finally finishes X-rays and shows us that his esophagus is clear, his trachea is clear, his intestines are clear but he has a large clump of SOMETHING in his stomach. It might or might not be cloth. She goes to the other emergency vet to do a consult for us.

Wednesday, sometime around 10am – Post-consult we decide to go to the other vet and get an ultra sound to see if the foreign body – that might or might not be cloth – is still confined to the stomach. Joshua and I wait at the vet.

Wednesday, about noon, possibly later – Ultrasound was good, the mass is still in his stomach and not at all in his intestines. They prep Indiana for an endoscopy and we go home for a shower and a nap – he won’t be able to get into the scope until about 2pm.

Wendesday, around 3pm – The vet calls with good news and bad news. Good news – Indiana is fine and the endoscopy has revealed what is in his tummy – GRASS! Bad news – it’s a fairly solid mass that won’t go forward or backward on it’s own but can’t be removed except ONE piece at a time. They prep Indiana for full on surgery.

Wednesday, around 530pm – The other vet calls with good news. Indiana is out of surgery and everything went well. They removed a solid mat of grass the size of three human fists from his stomach. Everything else looks good and he is in recovery.

Wednesday, around 9pm – We visit a very groggy Mr Dog in the clinic – he is shaved all underneath with a ten inch incision in his stomach and an IV port in his leg for the pain meds. He can’t hardly walk or stand so we let him lay down. He promptly closes his eyes and enjoys being talked to and petted by us for a short period of time. We send him back to his kennel so they can put him back on his IV.

LONGEST DAY EVER!

Today they called at around 8am to tell me they started offering him water. If he keeps that down, he’ll be offered food later today. If he eats and keeps it down he might be able to come home tonight. Keep your fingers crossed! I miss my Mr. Dog.

Also, further note.
With all the jazz we just had done to Mr. Dog, we racked up aroudn $4000 worth of bills. Those of you with dogs especially – GET PET INSURANCE. I’m researching it RIGHT NOW. Silly us, we didn’t have it but we will from now on!

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Month: August 2008

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