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REALLY Sick Puppy... (pictures of her poor swollen face)
9 years ago
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I have had a REALLY bad past few days.
So yesterday after I dropped Lee off at work, I came home and Solvi went to her kennel to take a nap. I sat down to work for about an hour before she woke up. Usually when she wakes up she jumps up on my lap and cuddles with me while I work. So when she jumped up on me and started rubbing on me I just kinda ignored her. She continued "poking" at me and rubbing on me and started whining, so when I looked down at her finally I see this horrible thing.
She had woke up and her eye was so giant and swollen that she couldn't even open it, and the other eye was starting to swell too. I was sitting there ignoring her and she was genuinely trying to alert me of something important.
I freaked out and grabbed her up, rushed her out of the room to see if anyone had any benadryl or anything, which no one had. I sat there and fed her water and talked to her until it was time to go to Lee's work for his lunch break, in which time the swelling on her eye had started going down a bit, so I wasn't as worried. I put her in the car and gave her the car blankets that she cuddles in to stay warm since we have no window now, and she just curled up inside them and went to sleep as usual. I drove to his work, which took about 10 minutes, and when I unburied her from the blankets, her whole snout and lips had swollen to a giant size! I again panic, and show Lee, he gives me his card to go get benadryl and so on. So I get her home and she just starts puking EVERYWHERE. Mind you this is about 3 am, and we have no vet offices around here that around open until 8 am. I was freaking out, her face was horribly swollen and all she could do is lay there, cry, and puke.
I felt so helpless. I finally got her some benadryl around 3:30 am, but she was still vomiting and crying so bad. Luckily benadryl kinda knocks you out, so she finally layed down and fell asleep. I spent the whole night sitting next to her kennel petting her and talking to her, listening to her breathing and catching any vomit with a paper towel and cleaning it off of her because it was going everywhere.
This is what her face looked like (swollen eyes, then swollen face)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nevh8cpgq.....Solvi.png?dl=0
By the time Lee was off work, she was finally so asleep that even my petting her wasn't waking her up, and she hadn't puked in about an hour, so I closed her kennel door (where she had chosen to lay while sick) and I left her in there to sleep.
By the time I got home with Lee we let her out of the kennel and the swelling had gone down quite a bit and she was trying to play a bit. After we had gone to sleep and woken up 6 hours later (in which time she slept with us like usual) the swelling was almost completely gone.
I thought we were through it.
I talked to my brother inlaw about all of this (he is a vet, and my go-to guy when it comes to dogs) he told me it is a bad food allergy. I haven't given her anything new though, everything she eats is the same stuff that she has had since she was 7 weeks old, so I can't think of what it is she got a hold of. Either she snuck something in the minute or so that I wasn't watching her (she literally goes everywhere with me and is almost always within eye sight) or one of my room mates slipped her something.
So she spent all day recovering, she had energy and was doing great, then all of a sudden, tonight she started vomiting again! She can't keep any food down.
My brother inlaw told me to give her some ice chips but not give her any other food or water for a while to let her stomach settle, and if it is still happening in a couple of days we need to take her to the vet and have a full exam done.
I dunno what we are going to do if we have to take her to the vet because I have literally $0 on my paypal right now, and we are living paycheck to paycheck as it is.
I am freaking out so bad right now.
I am most likely gunna spend tonight sitting next to her kennel taking care of her again.
SHADOW KING
~loneking
Holy smokes. I'm so sorry to hear about that. I wish your pup a speedy recovery.
fletchfetch
~fletchfetch
I'm sorry. I really hope everything gets better, especially your puppy.
Anfic
~anfic
How goes it? Is she better? It's heart breaking when innocents suffer...
whiteweasel
~whiteweasel
OP
She is back to her bouncy happy self now, we put her on a special diet for the next few days (boiled chicken and rice) which she thinks is the most amazing food ever, but yea, we finally got through it
