Houndie Gurl Drama
Our dog Sophie ( basset -beagle /bagel as we call her) has been through the wringer this past week.
Seems late last week she decided to eat some towel pieces with something yummy on them unbeknownst to us.
She then spent most of Friday ( 9 days ago) ralphing.It took us going to the vet , xrays and barium to figure out there was something stuck in her.
It then took another few hours for me to realize what she had gotten into.
It wouldn't pass on it's own and so into surgery she went.
She came through stomach surgery really well , but had some issues with her protein levels and needed a plasma infusion afterwards.
She is 6 years old, and needed extra healing time as well.
She had eye surgery for glaucoma earlier this year with no complications ,but she is blind.She has adjusted very well to this .
She finally came home this past Wednesday after having been in the hospital for 4 days .
After paying the 4 K bill, she was ready to get back to the business of being at home with her pack.
She's on the mend and her Gamma April aka personal chef was instructed to make her easy to digest foods ( boiled hamburger, white rice , boiled eggs).Yesterday she got to add boiled sweet potatoes to the mix.Plus she had to take 5 meds.Now she's down to 2 .
She surprised us by pulling a rookie puppy move and eating something inedible.
Seems she got a fan club at the hospital , even her discharge papers went on about how sweet she is and what a good patient she was .
We are glad she's home and thriving again.
posted by: Cutter (reply)
post date: 09.16.07 (3:08 pm)
I'm glad that she's getting to be ok again. :) ...and that she has such a great care-taker.
posted by: mimi (reply)
post date: 09.16.07 (5:12 pm)
oh, i am so happy for your good news! i am so sad about freckles i can hardly breathe! yeah for soph!
xoxox
posted by: rosietulips (reply)
post date: 09.17.07 (2:27 pm)
Phew, I'm glad she's okay!
posted by: ggirl (reply)
post date: 10.02.07 (10:31 am)
She looks like she deserves a fan club--what a sweet face. One of my (now deceased) huskies ate a tampon once and had to make his own trip to surgery.
posted by: judypatooote (reply)
post date: 10.17.07 (4:35 pm)
Oh poor baby.....wow a double surgery....why oh why do dogs have to eat everything....my Max just eats grasses out side, but has gotten bacteria from it, and was on meds, which it took two people to get down him, and threw up, and had diar, all over my carpet.... Now years ago I had a poodle names Pierre....Pierre would eat the crotch out of undies that were on the floor in basement waiting to be washed....she would eat little pebbles outside, and you would think she was talking, with her head bobbing around....birdseed, and nylon hose....we could check her poop outside and see what ever was missing....one time I was transplanting a plant, and found a pair of undies on the bottom of the flower pot.....how did he do that? and another time I saw something green sticking up in flower pot, it looked like a flower, but it was a green sock. It was sticking up about an inch.... Sorry April, I didn't mean to tell you my lifes dog stories....i have a few more, but I save them for another day....LOL I haven't been by in a while. I haven't read any blogs in a while....but hopefully I can start to catch up....a few each day.....hope your well, and hope Sophie is recovering and treated like a little queen.....judy